Many garage door openers made in the past 15 years were made by the same company, whether they're branded LiftMaster, or Chamberlain, or Craftsman or Sears. You

Many garage door openers made in the past 15 years were made by the same company, whether they're branded LiftMaster, or Chamberlain, or Craftsman or Sears. You can add remote opening, status and smartphone control to any of them with the LiftMaster MyQ retrofit kit. http://www.liftmaster.com/lmcv2/accessoryfamily/213/myq-enabled-accessories/ http://www.liftmaster.com/lmcv2/accessoryfamily/213/myq-enab... It installs in about 5 minutes: you just remove your opener buttons and move the two wires to their new buttons, which talk to their gateway. That's even less setup than this one (no attachment to the opener or the door). As a big-name commercial project, it's a pretty closed system, though. There's a JSON API, but it's not meant to be used except by their web/phone apps. There's a plugin to add it to Vera home automation hubs, but I worry about the longevity of it since I think such a thing is still against the product's TOS. They also have the newer "Universal Smartphone Garage Door Opener", which works with pretty much any brand (adding Linear, Genie, Overhead, Stanley, Wayne-Dalton) since it appears to use a light/IR sensor to detect open/closed state and acts like any remote opener to control the door. http://www.liftmaster.com/lmcv2/accessorydetail/19898/liftmaster-myq-garage/ http://www.liftmaster.com/lmcv2/accessorydetail/19898/liftma... The only reason I bought one was because none of the do-it-yourself or crowdfunded options were so plug-and-play, and I don't have the patience for wiring up weird circuit boards to the back of my openers and hoping they work. I also care a bit about obeying local laws that say a remotely controlled garage door must have an audible warning before it's closed, so that you don't accidentally crush a child you can't see is playing under your door. Most of the DIY stuff doesn't have that, LiftMaster's does and it's a bit like a smoke detector going off for 5 seconds before the door starts closing. There's no sound if you close it any other way (wall buttons, a normal remote in your car). I don't really get what this site is offering, but if it were the same thing as what LiftMaster sells but self-hosted or with a much more open API, I'd have paid money for that instead.