A Look Inside Garageio
Happy Holidays! Garageio is offering a 10% discount on all of our products at shop.garageio.com now through Sunday!
With smart home technology on the rise, Garageio is the perfect gift for anyone with a garage. Help make your loved ones’ home smarter, safer, and simpler with Garageio.
Enter discount code: #SMARTGARAGESALE
Starting on Thanksgiving Day, we will be offering all Garageio Products for 10% off! Watch out for the discount code here on our blog, twitter or facebook page! What better gift to give a friend or family member than the peace of mind that only Garageio can bring.
Garageio means no more getting stuck outside when your garage door remote gets lost or stops working. Garageio means no more jumping out of your car and freezing your fingers trying to enter a code on an old keypad. Garageio means peace of mind always having control of your garage. Anytime. Anywhere.
Garageio just made it onto Ebay’s Innovators Collective!
The Innovators Collective is an exclusive list of innovative products featured on Ebay. With only 30 products on the list, why did Ebay choose us? We believe it is because of our vision: We built Garageio with the future in mind.
Smart home devices are changing the way we live and the way we interact with our home. We are making sure that Garageio works with other smart devices. While other smart garage door openers may have the same function, they don’t have the integration that makes us stand out. Garageio talks to your other smart home devices, giving you complete control over every aspect of your home.
A big thanks to Ebay for believing in Garageio and putting us on the Innovators Collective! Check out our product page on Ebay here: ebay.com/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 http://callnerds.com/easy-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
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!
Attention all Android users. A new version of Garageio Android is here! Garageio is happy to release a much needed update to its Android application today. If you are already using Garageio Android, make sure you enabled “Auto-update” in Google Play to automatically receive the update.
In the next release (scheduled for release in two weeks), we will add some much needed control around notifications as well as new sounds! Check out more screenshots from the new app below:
As always, we are eager to hear your feedback. If you have any questions or comments, drop us a line at http://garageio.com/contact.
The Garageio team has been pulling some long days and late nights to try to stay on top of all that is happening. July has been a very busy month. We have made critical updates to our support software, working on awesome updates for all of our mobile apps and web dashboard, and working on some exciting projects (which we will be announcing very soon). All the while, making time to try to keep the pipeline moving on fulfilling orders to patient customers.
Shipping Update
Though we still have outstanding pre-orders, we have made up a lot of ground in recent weeks. We wanted to share with you the latest news on shipping dates for those customers still waiting for theirs.
Visit the orders page for current shipping estimates.
A Special Thank You
The Garageio team and I would like to extend a special thank you to our current (and our soon to be) customer for their patience as we work through some growing pains. As we reflect (very briefly) back over the past several months, we realize that we have come a long way from our Fundable campaign. None of this…none of it…would have been possible without your support. Thank you to everyone who made it possible. We are thankful each day because we have the most wonderful customers, ever.
– Zak & the Garageio Team
