Aeon Labs Garage Door Controller is a smart and wireless Garage Door Control system, you can control the garage door to open, close, or stop moving via wireless signal on your gateway client or phone application. You can also control it by using the external switch when your controller or mobile phone is not on hand.
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It does have a button on the device for manual control but to take full advantage of its features a Zwave gateway or controller is required
Do you have any deals on controllers as well?
Please feel free to send us an email at [email protected] and let us know what you are after and we can see what we can do
How much is it normally?
The regualr price for this item is $179
The home garage is the door to my "kingdom".
I am familiar with different wireless clients (for home, educational and health arena) and I know, for a fact, that manufacturers' main objective is to sell a product and security is, sadly, not a priority.
Anyone can get the required tools from the net and run an exploit to compromise the system. And, unfortunately, someone has already found an exploit with the Z-Wave.
Whether or not this exploit has already been fixed or not is not the argument and I'm not saying "don't buy this", rather, I'm saying caveat emptor.
Whilst true, that can be said about most roller door RF codes themselves, plus lots of keyless entries into modern cars. Choose your poison.
Whilst true, that can be said about most roller door RF codes themselves, plus lots of keyless entries into modern cars.
I agree.
Again, I'm just putting it out there. This solution is no safer than our common Australian roller doors remote control.
I understand what you said about it "not (being) the argument" but that article is three years old. It doesn't even list an exploit, only "Potential attack vectors" which (as far as I know) since that time haven't actually been taken advantage of - with the possible exception of one case from back then where a lock was hacked due to a bug in it's software, not the Z-Wave encryption protocol itself.
This article is from this year and more relevant.
Given this is a new device which uses the latest Z-Wave standard with encryption, I'd say the chances of a breach are very small.
So in the end I guess I pretty much agree with you, just wanted to get the facts straight.
(Note I have no stake in any of this, I am only interested as my father used to manufacture garage door operators, etc.)
Agreed - for the most part z-wave is plenty secure enough for consumer applications. If someone wanted to get into my house, they could 'hack' their way in by going around the back and smashing a window. Way quicker than sitting down with a laptop and trying to sniff & decrypt traffic. If someone is clever enough to do that, they would most likely have a job working for the likes of Google so unlikely will be wanting to break into my house to steal an old iPhone and a 6 YO plasma….. ;-)
Aside from the warning sounds, it is not really clear what advantage this has over the remote I already have in my car and on the wall in my garage.
What am I missing here?
Im thinking the same. The only thing would be to open it for someone from work/abroad..?
Get an app for your smartphone to open it when driving within X meters of your house.
What is the name of the app. According to website apps are not available
A number out there to choose from. Personally I have a Vera Edge to run scenes such as 'turn on the light in the pantry if the door opens, but switch it off if the door is left open for more than an hour', and I use 'tasker' and 'autovera' to setup widgets on my android mobile to execute commands on demand (such as 'dim the lights to 15%' or 'open the front door'.
not really clear what advantage this has
The main feature seems to be the ability to let many different people in, without needing many remote controls. Maybe if you have lots of kids and your garage can park four or more cars, then this would be a better than a conventional garage door opener, as they typically only come with two or three remotes.
Remotes also break occasionally, and it could be difficult to get a replacement. Using an app on your phone makes this much less of a problem.
For most people, I think this would be better as a gate opener than a garage door opener - if you have a fortress-style six-foot fence and locked gates. You can give codes to all your relatives and close friends, and even give a code to the person who mows your lawn.
It could also be a good solution for a business, so only employees get granted access to the basement carpark.
There have been times when our garage door has been left open overnight accidentally - you can set an alarm to warn you if the door is open for longer than 'nn' minutes. You could also set other scenes to happen when the door opens eg unlock the door from the garage into the house when the main door opens, and lock it when the garage door closes…. or turn on the lights in the house if the garage door opens, the geofencing indicates you are coming home, and it's night time….. or release the dogs if the garage door opens and it's not you coming home…. lots of options… ;-)
And yes there's always the "give me a call when you drop something off - I'll open the garage for you to leave it there" so you don't have valuable stuff sitting out front of the house to get nicked. At the moment I have a remote stuck to the wall in the garage to open the door when I enter there to get into the car - I could use this instead and free up that remote (which is not cheap) as a spare.
Do you need it? Of course not. Very tempted to get one though.
Which Z-wave controller do you have in mind when you talk about being able to set alarms for this?
I use a Vera Edge, but there are other options out there. For me, it sends emails, pushes a warning to my mobile as well as sends an sms (max of 2 per day for free). Could also set it to (say) flash a light or sound an actual alarm.
@PlasticSpaceman: Thanks for the response. I've been using a RaspberryPi with Home Assistant installed. Requires coding of config files to get this working, and I've somehow killed the notications of my garage door being opened for too long (which is the only reason that I set it all up in the first place).
The simplicity of something like a Vera is very tempting.
@t3chshopper: I've gone through multiple iterations over the years (home built linux, linux with x10, windows with x10, raspberry pi with homegenie), and the Vera isn't perfect but it's been pretty good. I'm using z-wave for those things I want to be certain are reliable, and using mysensor sensors for some other things including a garage door alert. If you have some spare time, might want to have a look at that….
Op: Is there a version of this for automatic gate openers (the sliding kind). Ideally so that as I open the gate using Zwave controller then the outdoor and house lights turn on on arrival at night etc.
Hi noblenick, it should work fine for that purpose as long as it has a manual switch wired or an input for one. Feel free to send us the model number of the opener and we can do some checking
There does appear to be inputs for manual switch control using inputs 1,2,3 on connector J7. As the inputs are spearate for opening and closing you may be only able to have one action from the garage door controller as it is designed for toggle inputs. Please let us know if you need more information.
Stoked to see this available in Australian frequencies, and at a nice price. Looking forward to receiving mine. Pity that I previously ordered and installed a Vision Z-wave garage door sensor recently (this deal includes such a sensor).
Just wondering if this is compatible with roller doors? Also is pickup from the ACT available?
Hi Xcom, Its fine for a roller door as long as you can place the sensor somewhere that it will tilt when the door is opened. We can't do pickups but happy to drop it off for you if you need us to, just send us an email at [email protected] and we can sort it out for you.
Do you need a controller to use this?