ISMARTGATELITE Smart Garage Door Opener Remote, APP Control, Compatible with Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT, Compatible with All Garage doors. Wireless sensor included.

WiFi setup is simple and seamless. This can all be done inside your house or from the ground level as You take care of that first. Once that is complete and you put the batteries in the door sensor you can test the connectivity to the app and HomeKit simply by changing the orientation of the door sensor. Once configured, you can unplug and move the iSmartgate to the garage to get ready to connect and mount it. It will hold the configuration even powered off.Physical install requires a bit more effort. Install the door sensor on your door first (super simple with double sided tape provided) then the iSmartgate itself simply needs power and to be hard-wired into either the hard-wired opener that is by your garage to house entry door or the garage door opener itself. There are two wired leads that go from the iSmartgate to the the contacts on the remote or the opener itself (see images). You then mount the iSmartgate near where you connected it and provide power. That is it. There is no “programming” to your garage door because of the hard-wired connection.HomeKit Integration is from the app itself. Once setup, that too is seamless.One of the best features of the HomeKit integration is the its integration to CarPlay (if you have a newer vehicle that is CarPlay enabled) if not, Siri, the Home app, or the iSmartgate app will remotely let you control your garage door. If you do have CarPlay and iOS 13, a control for your garage door will appear on your CarPlay panel in your car when you arrive or are leaving your home to allow you to tap to open or close your door.This works flawlessly!

This worked great for about 3 months. Then it started having issues with the remote sensor. You can find a lot of people who had problems by searching "ismartgate not working in home kit" or "ismartgate no response in homekit"The sensor just stopped working. I've contacted support 4 times and none of the times did they bother to write me back despite being polite.I highly suggest going with Meross or another brand.120$ wasted. Also because I bought the lite version they don't have the wired leads on it so you can't buy the wired sensor to attach to it. For that they make you buy the more expensive 200$ version.It's been an extremely frustrating experience and I'm from IT guy who does software dev, so I understand bugs and glitches.This just straight up no longer works and isn't worth a fraction of the cost.It was great when it worked but the company has horrible quality control and could care less to fix the problem once they've already got your money.Stay away from them and go with someone else. The headache you'll eventually get isn't worth it.

Programming and install took 30 minutes max. Easy instructions, and videos online. My only "problem" was the jump wire from the unit to my wall button was pretty short, so I had to mount the unit in a weird place in the garage. But I was too lazy to google what I needed and go to Home Depot or Amazon and get something longer. Once I figured out all the Apple Carplay things that needed toggling on and off, and got it synced to my Apple TV hub, all is perfect. I no longer need a remote in the car to open and shut my garage door, and if I have CarPlay going, I even get a button to pop up on my dash display as I pull up, which makes me really happy. I had a co-worker get her car broken into and they used her garage remote to break into her house too, so I've been really paranoid about not keeping a physical remote in my car, and this alleviates that anxiety. I also went with this model rather than one of the cheaper options, because I had no where to plug them into the ceiling. I only have a single outlet and the garage door uses that. Even if I got a split for the outlet, I would have had to climb up practically on top of the opener to wire them to the opener itself. This unit wires to the push button on the wall, which made things super simple.

The app is the worst part of this product. that and it's buggy sensors.I had to replace 3 sensors to finally get one that signals the correct difference between closed and open for the garage door. (the door would open but the app would say that it was closed).now the app. ugh. every time you want to select a setting or view whats going on in the product it would have to reach out and create another session with the device. if the device was offline, you couldn't connect to the app and even look at any settings or configuration information.Passwords, users, configuring the device settings, etc. this app is cumbersome and unwieldy. it's usable enough once you get it all set up, which is a relief cause opening the app sucks. glad that google home works so I can just ask google to open the door.all in all, I give this device a 3. mostly for the cumbersome app. would love to be able to use the device without trouble to give the device a review, but can't seem to get there.*** EDIT ***I received a third sensor as an RMA and installed it and voilla, it works fine now. Apparently there was a bug in the sensors, but they fixed it. now if they could only fix the app. raising the review to a 4... wish it could be a 5, but I just cant.