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Old 09-24-2019, 02:14 PM
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You can make any brand a wifi door opener for about 100.00. No removing whatever brand of opener you have, leave it in place and install a wifi enabled switch to control the opener. I will show you mine if you want to see how it is done.

Edit to add: Before some rushes in with some Google results that this can be done for less than 100.00, it can. For under 12.00 in fact for a basic circuit which requires some technical knowledge, to 29.99 for a packaged system which is similar to the Chamberlain system. To the 100.00 system which ties into other smart home devices using several platforms such as wifi, zigbee, smart home bridge, and smart speakers.

Why you want a cheap system is obvious but if your wife wants the capability of the garage light to come on (in addition to the opener light) when the door opens after dusk for five minutes and the light in the first room in the house, then you want the 100.00 system. It works great for late grocery store runs BTW.

Since I have gotten PMs on this No, MVP openers do not have any special technology which prevents adding Wi-Fi capability to them. No garage opener does, they all can be converted. So far I have converted MVP, Chamberlin (non wifi), and Craftsmen over. Five openers, two homes.

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