Homelink vs. Wifi opener

I use the chamberlain myQ system. It was a add on to my garage door and installed very easily. My wife and I as well as mother in law all use the application from our cell phones. We can open and close the garage when we are in wifi range or using cell phone data. I love the fact that you can open or close the garage from the driveway or several states away. Mother in law has forgotten to close the garage several times in her old age (we just close it behind her). You can set notifications for it to tell you when it opens, it closes, when it's opened longer than a preset time. And the chamberlain application added fingerprint security which is wonderful. Any questions... Fire away!

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I have this one...
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It's a two cable setup one power and one ethernet cable. I have two garage door openers so I got two of them. I have cat6 throughout my house and a 24 port switch in my network/server closet, I know it will work on cat5 as well because I used both cables in my closet with no issues. I have both of these chamberlain myq Internet gateway boxes in there. I had to swap out the switches on the garage wall also. These switches communicate with the the gateways (located 75feet from said closet). Word of advice... Do one at a time I unboxed both and set them up and I got confused on what base communicated with what switch, hard to name when you don't know what goes with what. Programming them is fitst part online. Making an account password then syncing it to you app on your phone. You have to create the account online or it just doesn't work, not explained well in book when I purchased it. Unfortunately you will have to pull out your phone to open your garage. It's not proximity based at all. That would be pretty cool though. Hope I answered your questions. Full disclosure, I purchased these out of necessity because I installed some WiFi security cameras and they interfered with the regular garage door openers, including my wife's Ford (using homelink). So this was my remedy to get it working after spending hours installing cameras to my house.

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