Chamberlain discontinues its HomeKit hub for myQ garage door controllers

Image: Liftmaster

The myQ Home Bridge Hub was supposed to connect myQ-enabled garage doors to Apple's HomeKit smart home platform.

My Q is a smart garage door controller that is built into a garage door opener or a separate retrofit wireless hub and connects your garage door to the internet. You can use the my Q app to open and close it.

The myQ Home Bridge Hub, which extended that control to the Apple Home app, has been out of stock for a few weeks.

The myQ Home Bridge Hubs have been discontinued due to the products continuing to evolve. The Home Bridge Hubs will work for the foreseeable future.

Less than 1% of myQ users have used the myQ Home Bridge. It varied in price from $70 to $90 over time. Adding voice control and compatibility with the Apple Home app will cost you a lot.

Image: Chamberlain Group

The HomeKit users were not offered any alternative solutions by the company. As we continue to work with leading brands to deliver seamless products and services that complete the smart home, we want to provide compelling smart home solutions.

MyQ has a bad history of sharing its technology. Users were charged a fee for smart home integrations with the internet of things. Despite partnering with Amazon for its Key In-Garage delivery service, myq doesn't work with alexa for smart home control You are limited in what you can do with the integrations compared to using myQ's own app.

You can't use a third-party retrofit smart controller to add additional smart home control if you have a Chamberlain garage door opener. Special adaptors are required to work with products from Meross, iSmartGate, and Tailwind.

This issue may be fixed by the Matter smart home standard. The garage door controllers are part of Matter. When the new standard arrives this fall, it might be possible to upgrade the controllers to support Matter. This could bring about a way to connect the two without the hub. The Connected Standards Alliance is an organization behind Matter. If we hear back, we will change this story.