A Look Inside Garageio
Garageio was featured on TV!
Nerds On Call, a nationally renowned computer repair service, recently appeared on Good Day Sacramento and featured Garageio as one of their “Easy Smart Home Upgrades”. You can read the article on their website at callnerds.com/smart-home-upgrades/
The new Garageio Help Center is live! For any and all of your Garageio related questions, you can now visit http://help.garageio.com/! We have also added a bunch of information to help you connect your Garageio with Amazon Echo. Connecting them is now easier than ever. You can check out the new documentation with step-by-step instructions here.
Garageio is getting smarter every day and we are constantly improving and developing Garageio to make sure your experience is as simple and secure as possible. Stay tuned for more updates!
We’re excited to announce the debut of the Garageio Skill for the Amazon Echo™ which allows you to control your garage using your voice! To use the Garageio skill, you need to enable it in the Alexa Companion App (or website).* Simply open the app, tap on Skills in the menu, and then press Enable for the Garageio skill.
Once enabled, you can link your Garageio to your Amazon account by speaking the following to Echo:
* In order to use Garageio with Amazon Echo, you need to own both Garageio and an Amazon Echo.
Last week, Amazon announced their new Alexa Fund offering a $100 million in investments to fuel innovation in voice technology. Who was one of the first seven companies to be a part of the Alexa investment? You guessed it – Garageio. Our team is excited to now be part of the Amazon Echo ecosystem!
The Alexa Fund is centered around the Amazon Echo, the voice-controlled assistant (Alexa) which provides information, answer questions, plays music, reads the news, check sports scores or the weather, and now, can control your garage.
Garageio extends the Echo’s capabilities into the garage to control and monitor a user’s garage doors. For example, before falling asleep many homeowners wonder whether the exterior doors are all locked, their windows are shut, and their garage door is closed. Now, all it takes is a quick question to Echo or another Alexa-enabled device: “Alexa, ask Garageio if the garage door open?” If it is, just say “Alexa, tell Garageio to close the garage door.”
The Garageio/Alexa app will be available soon to all Echo owners. If you have an Echo but not a Garageio, get yours today via Garageio’s website or on Amazon. We are looking forward to more exciting things still to come as our team continues to dream and explore the edge of possibilities.
– The Garageio Team
We are happy to report that we finished the top 25 contestants of Fundable.com‘s #Crowd2Shelf contest. The #Crowd2Shelf contest is a joint-venture between Staples and Fundable.com to bring one of the 25 contest finalists to retail shelves!
Once the contest is over and the champions are announced, the winning entrant will be contacted by the Staples team, who will put their incredible product development resources to work to help them get their product retail-ready and into Staples inventory!
We are honored to be a part of this contest and we are ready to show Staples that Garageio has what it takes! For a limited-time, you can support Garageio in this stage in a number of ways. Head over to our campaign page (https://www.fundable.com/garageio-staples) and grab a reward!
Attention all Android users. A new version of Garageio Android is here! Garageio is happy to release a much needed update to its Android application today. If you are already using Garageio Android, make sure you enabled “Auto-update” in Google Play to automatically receive the update.
In the next release (scheduled for release in two weeks), we will add some much needed control around notifications as well as new sounds! Check out more screenshots from the new app below:
As always, we are eager to hear your feedback. If you have any questions or comments, drop us a line at http://garageio.com/contact.
The Garageio team has been pulling some long days and late nights to try to stay on top of all that is happening. July has been a very busy month. We have made critical updates to our support software, working on awesome updates for all of our mobile apps and web dashboard, and working on some exciting projects (which we will be announcing very soon). All the while, making time to try to keep the pipeline moving on fulfilling orders to patient customers.
Shipping Update
Though we still have outstanding pre-orders, we have made up a lot of ground in recent weeks. We wanted to share with you the latest news on shipping dates for those customers still waiting for theirs.
Visit the orders page for current shipping estimates.
A Special Thank You
The Garageio team and I would like to extend a special thank you to our current (and our soon to be) customer for their patience as we work through some growing pains. As we reflect (very briefly) back over the past several months, we realize that we have come a long way from our Fundable campaign. None of this…none of it…would have been possible without your support. Thank you to everyone who made it possible. We are thankful each day because we have the most wonderful customers, ever.
– Zak & the Garageio Team
May and June have been a really busy month for the Garageio team. From our last update, we were fully-focused on scaling our manufacturing to finish fulfilling our Fundable campaign preorders. As you know, during this time, we experienced a delay which bumped our timeframe back yet again. Much of May was spent recovering from this delay as we worked closely with the manufacturer.
Shipping of Orders: I am happy to report that we will be shipping all of the remaining Fundable preorders by our date listed on the Order Status page: http://garageio.com/orders. If for any reason, you have a question about your order, please contact our customer service by submitting a message: http://garageio,com/contact.
For those who ordered after our Fundable campaign ended, your Garageio is still on its way! For an estimated shipping date, be sure to check out our Order Status page: http://garageio.com/orders.
Feature/Update Roadmap: Garageio has many planned software updates to the mobile apps and the website dashboard. We will be turning our attention back to them over the next month. Stayed tuned for some exciting improvements.
A Thank You: I wanted to extend my gratitude and thanks to all of the early customer who took time to share their thoughts with us on installing and using Garageio. It has been both uplifting and constructive. Your feedback gives us critical insight into your experience and helps us to continue to improve Garageio!
We are also appreciative of all of our early customers who have shown patience and understanding as we work through the issues typical of a small company. Your support means more to us than we can accurately express.
– Zak & The Garageio Team
We Are Almost There!
The Garageio team has been hard at work chiseling away at every aspect of what it takes to make an extraordinary product by a few ordinary individuals. We wanted to take a second and send out an update on our overall progress. Dave and I have been wearing out our keyboards writing app updates and working closely with some familiar names on platform integrations which will allow Garageio to talk with some other great products in and coming to the market.
Shipping and Order Status
Greg has been working diligently on scaling manufacturing options and, in the immediate timeframe, assembling and fulfilling existing orders. Due to the availability of some of the components, we are only receiving about a third of the expected shipment for the Fundable backer fulfillment. Our plan was to have all Fundable orders shipped the week of April 21st but given this situation, we can’t realistic achieve this goal. We will continue to move down the list in order and will continue to work with our suppliers to expedite the remaining shipment.
We have created a new status page which we update every few days:
http://garageio.com/orders
Support Tickets and Inquires
The entire team spends as much time as we can answering contact inquiries and supporting our current users to the best of our abilities. If you have sent us something, we did see it! We promise to give a response as quickly as possible (although sometimes it is not as quick as we would hope).
We take to heart the support everyone has given us thus far and continue to push forward to make things even better than the day before. Everyday, the Garageio team aims to accomplish as much as is humanly possible. Each team member continues to battle these challenges to continue our pursuit of the traditional American entrepreneurial dream.
New Installation Video!
The Garageio Team just recently shot a brand new video which details each step of the simple installation process. We are working on integrating it into the online instructions, but for the meantime, you can check it out here: https://vimeo.com/92619019
Ideas born in the garage, made in the garage (and in this case FOR the garage!) still remains possible today.
Thanks for your continued support!
Zak Dziczkowski
CEO /Co-founder
The first batch of Garageios are en route to our earliest backers with more to follow. Stay tuned!
