Over time, I have found products that make life so nice. I wanted to share my happiness with an add-on to our garage
door opener.
We have the LiftMaster 829LM Garage Door Monitor and love
it. I actually bought 3 because I thought we needed one per garage door, but I
was able to sync all three garage doors to one monitor. We ended up using two
of them and I have a third, if someone local wants to buy it from us!
Back to why we love it… It beeps when the garage door is
opened or closed. It’s just a little chirp to let you know the door is being
used. Our dogs and the kiddos know the sound of the chirp. It doesn’t bother
the dogs, but they do go running to the door to see who is home. And the boys
hear the chirp and also go running to the door to greet whomever is home.
It will also beep if the garage door is left open. The beep
is about once every 60 seconds until the door is closed. You can close the
garage door from the monitor and not have to go out to the garage to close it!
I mentioned that we bought 3, and are using 2. We don’t need
two, but we keep one in Mom’s room so she can hear it. The other one is in our
bedroom. We actually keep them under the bed, so we do not see them. They are
loud enough that we still hear them when we are not in the bedrooms (but we
keep our bedroom doors open.)
We discovered this add on when we bought a new garage door
opener from Costco. When you buy anything from Costco, they add all these
extras to the product. Sometimes you don’t need all those extras. With the
Costco garage opener came the monitor, a smart control panel, a remote light control,
and the internet gateway. I was afraid I would need to buy all of these extras
for the new house, but I only bought the monitor and have the features I want.
The smart control panel does have a neat feature called “time-to-close.” If you
have an older model door opener, you can switch it out with the smart panel to
get this capability. I love it! You can set it to automatically close your
garage door in 1, 5, or 10 minutes. We never forget to close the garage door
now! When researching the garage door openers, I made sure ours came with this
capability. I love it!
I’m all about making things automatic. We have been so use
to these features that they have become the norm in our house, and I forget to
share their coolness.
