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
Today we released version 2.0 of the Garageio iOS App to the Apple App Store.
This version of the application includes a number of features that have been requested.
Using version 2.0 of the iOS app, you can now enable/disable door open alerts, change the notification tone that is played when you receive a door open alert to one that is more subtle, and set the time zone in which your garage is located.
Each of these settings will be stored on your phone. In addition, each of these settings will be backed up to your Garageio account so that they can be recovered if you need to reinstall the app, switch phones, etc.
Alert Tones
You can now choose between two different alert tones. Loud and Clear is the default tone.
Loud and Clear (default)
Subtle
Time Zone
Setting the time zone will ensure that open and close times are reported correctly on your Garageio dashboard located on our website.
When you access the Garageio iOS app, the app requests the status (opened/closed) of each of your garage doors. Shaking your phone will now tell the app to request the status of each door again.
In addition the Garageio app has been updated so that you cannot open or close a garage door that is in the process of opening or closing. When a door is opening, a status message will appear stating “door opening”. When the door is fully open, the message will changed to “door opened”. Similar messages will appear for a door that is closing and closed.
We’re looking forward to your questions, comments, and feedback. You can contact us at any time via our Contact form.
Over the weekend we released a major update to Garageio. This update tracks door opens and closes that take place outside of Garageio (the website, the iOS app, the Android app, and IFTTT).
Now, when your door is opened or closed with a remote control or wall push button, the action is recorded and appears in your Latest Activity on your Garageio dashboard.
Opens and closes that take place outside of Garageio will be represented with “Non Garageio Event” along with the name “Non Garageio User.”
These toggles will also be broadcast to IFTTT so that recipes using the Door opened or closed trigger include them as well.
It’s been snowing all day in Columbus, Ohio. We’ve spent the day testing version 2 of our iOS app. We hope to be in the app store soon!
Login
Settings
Today we released version 2.0 of the Garageio Android app into the Google Play / Android app store.
This version of the application includes a number of features that have been requested.
Using version 2.0 of the Android app, you can now enable/disable door open alerts, change the notification tone that is played when you receive a door open alert to one that is more subtle, and set the time zone in which your garage is located.
Each of these settings will be stored on your phone. In addition, each of these settings will be backed up to your Garageio account so that they can be recovered if you need to reinstall the app, switch phones, etc.
Alert Tones
You can now choose between two different alert tones. Loud and Clear is the default tone.
Loud and Clear (default)
Subtle
Time Zone
Setting the time zone will ensure that open and close times are reported correctly on your Garageio dashboard located on our website.
When you access the Garageio Android app, the app requests the status (opened/closed) of each of your garage doors. Shaking your phone will now tell the app to request the status of each door again.
In addition the Garageio app has been updated so that you cannot open or close a garage door that is in the process of opening or closing. When a door is opening, a status message will appear stating “door opening”. When the door is fully open, the message will changed to “door opened”. Similar messages will appear for a door that is closing and closed.
We’re looking forward to your questions, comments, and feedback. You can contact us at any time via our Contact form.
The Garageio team is proud to introduce the Garageio Channel on IFTTT.
IFTTT (if this then that) is a free service which allows users to connect different internet-based applications together, automating every aspect of their lives.
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!
