Hey there Garageio Users.

As a reminder, will be performing maintenance on the Garageio Service tomorrow, December 19th from 10:00AM EST to 8:00PM EST. Your Garageio service will be unavailable during this period of time.

During the scheduled maintenance, you will still be able to open and close your garage manually or with your wall button. However, using the Garageio app or desktop dashboard will be unavailable. If you are using Amazon Echo/Alexa, Amazon Fire TV, or IFTTT, along with Garageio, these services will also be unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and will try to have your service back up and running as soon as we can.

Thanks!

Hey there Garageio Users.

We will be performing maintenance on the Garageio Service this upcoming Saturday, December 19th from 10:00AM EST to 8:00PM EST. Your Garageio service will be unavailable during that period of time.

During the scheduled maintenance, you will still be able to open and close your garage manually or with your wall button. However, using the Garageio app or desktop dashboard will be unavailable. If you are using Amazon Echo/Alexa, Amazon Fire TV, or IFTTT, along with Garageio, these services will also be unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and will try to have your service back up and running as soon as we can.

Thanks!

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

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/

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:

 

 

Late last night we released a new version of the software that powers your Garageio Blackbox.

All Garageio Blackboxes that are powered on and connected to the internet will automatically download and apply this update.

There is nothing you need to do in order to update your Blackbox.

This software update has been in the works for a couple of months. The update includes bug fixes, a number of stability enhancements, and a connection update to prevent a connection issue that a small number of people have reported.

Put simply, after this update, your Blackbox will function better than ever!

We Are Almost There!
The Garageio team has been hard at work chiseling away at every aspect of what it takes to make an extraordinary product by a few ordinary individuals. We wanted to take a second and send out an update on our overall progress. Dave and I have been wearing out our keyboards writing app updates and working closely with some familiar names on platform integrations which will allow Garageio to talk with some other great products in and coming to the market.

Shipping and Order Status
Greg has been working diligently on scaling manufacturing options and, in the immediate timeframe, assembling and fulfilling existing orders. Due to the availability of some of the components, we are only receiving about a third of the expected shipment for the Fundable backer fulfillment. Our plan was to have all Fundable orders shipped the week of April 21st but given this situation, we can’t realistic achieve this goal. We will continue to move down the list in order and will continue to work with our suppliers to expedite the remaining shipment.

We have created a new status page which we update every few days:
http://garageio.com/orders

Support Tickets and Inquires
The entire team spends as much time as we can answering contact inquiries and supporting our current users to the best of our abilities. If you have sent us something, we did see it! We promise to give a response as quickly as possible (although sometimes it is not as quick as we would hope).

We take to heart the support everyone has given us thus far and continue to push forward to make things even better than the day before. Everyday, the Garageio team aims to accomplish as much as is humanly possible. Each team member continues to battle these challenges to continue our pursuit of the traditional American entrepreneurial dream.

New Installation Video!
The Garageio Team just recently shot a brand new video which details each step of the simple installation process. We are working on integrating it into the online instructions, but for the meantime, you can check it out here: https://vimeo.com/92619019

Ideas born in the garage, made in the garage (and in this case FOR the garage!) still remains possible today.

Thanks for your continued support!

Zak Dziczkowski
CEO /Co-founder