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Wink App & Liftmaster

Hi,

I am looking for new garage door openers that can be used with my Wink App. Wink's website says that their app works with Chamberlain MyQ, but not Liftmaster MyQ. Is this accurate? I assumed that the two MyQ products were the same (just different branding.

Can someone confirm that the Liftmaster MyQ will work with Wink App?

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  • Hi Artie,

    I can confirm that it works with the Wink app, but it's only partially supported.  The robot feature does not work, so you can't add any automation.  I don't see any advantage to using this through the Wink app vs the OEM app unless you use wink for other devices already.  And even then, you can't really integrate any interaction between the devices.

    Wink says it will work with the Apple watch, which would add functionality that the OEM app doesn't support.  However, when I try Wink with my Apple Watch it sets at "Loading" and never goes anywhere else.

    Another bad thing about MyQ is there is no easy way to add other users.  They have to log in as you.  You can't add anyone permanently or temporarily.
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  • Hello Artie, there is some information that I would like to get to you regarding your question. Can you email me at MyQCommunity@LiftMaster.com please?
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  • I second this, would like to automate my MyQ through Wink
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  • I'm a bit confused about how this works. When adding a garage in Wink app, you're only given the two choices "Go!Control or Chamberlain MyQ". I have the Liftmaster MyQ and have seen a lot of conflicting information on this. What I'm after is definitely adding to Wink because I have most of my house on wink and like most anyone else prefer one app to do the things I need to.

    So how did you guys add this? I'm a bit skeptical to take this off my alarm.com panel and it not work on wink, but at the same time, sucks that it's the only device on my alarm.com panel ;)

    Also, anyone get any automation to work with shortcuts and IFTTT? That would be a reason for me to go through the hassle of getting the MyQ device released from Alarm.com.
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    Ditto on MyQ Liftmaster and Wink working together please
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  • Eddie, I can update that this works. I called Alarm.com / Monitronics to release myq from my 2gig panel, added the liftmaster MyQ app to my iPhone, created and account and added MyQ hub to Liftmaster MyQ app (I also had to push the little pair button on garage door opener to pair it to MyQ App). I was then able to choose MyQ Garage Door opener in Wink and add it. Asked for my Liftmaster MyQ credentials and voila. Worked a treat.

    Now, what doesn't work is geo fencing. I even tried creating Open and Close as shortcuts to try to get around the fact Robots won't do it because garage is not a choice so thought maybe I could get past this limitation using IFTTT, no luck. I read around and found that something with the unreliability of MyQ with wink had it taken off. I can't verify that though and others say security reasons. I can kind of see the idea of the latter (even though I think we all know relying on this much automation has it's risks).

    Regardless, it works, there's a few workarounds out there and I'll check back in here if I find out more. Besides geo fencing, still has opened up a lot more possibilities for automation for me.
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