Sears: Garage Door Monitor -50% off- B&M only

[clammydog]

Found this on sale today at the Pickering store for $29.99. Regular price is $59.99. Not sure how long the sale will last.

It signals whether garage door is opened or closed to a receiver inside your home.

Link (http://www.sears.ca/gp/product/B000FJLRHQ/sr=1-9/qid=1173568972/ref=sr_1_9/104-5552668-2432717?ie=UTF8&searsBrand=core&mqnodeid=16364721)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FJLRHQ.01-A10FHFRJZ0GJG3._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg

[albundy99999999]

Anyone know how it works?

[weilyan]

Anyone know how it works?



stick the sensor without the lights (which is the right one in the picture) on your garage door.

the one with the lights indicates whether your garage door is open or close



IMHO, pretty useless device....wireless keypad entry (1000 times more useful)

[wiebecj]

it's a neat idea for people with non-attached garages :-) Easy to tell if you forgot to close your garage door!

[albundy99999999]

stick the sensor without the lights (which is the right one in the picture) on your garage door.

the one with the lights indicates whether your garage door is open or close



IMHO, pretty useless device....wireless keypad entry (1000 times more useful)

Thanks for letting me know. So, if the garage door is 1/5 opened (not fully opened), the sensor would still detect it?

[albundy99999999]

Found this on sale today at the Pickering store for $29.99. Regular price is $59.99. Not sure how long the sale will last.

Website shows $59.99. Is it limited to only Pickering store? How about other B&M stores?

[Chin-Pang]

Thanks for letting me know. So, if the garage door is 1/5 opened (not fully opened), the sensor would still detect it?

Yes it will detect if the door is 1/5 open. Just mount the sensor on the top panel of the door. The monitor will show the door is open as soon as the sensor goes from vertical to horizontal position.

[jochooi]

Most would have their garage doors linked to the home alarm system and therefore can be set to chime when the door opens/shuts. This unit would be redundant.

[dasteve]

Most would have their garage doors linked to the home alarm system and therefore can be set to chime when the door opens/shuts. This unit would be redundant.

Really? Do you know a lot of people that have this?

I've got an alarm hooked to the door to the house from garage, but never heard of the alarm being rigged to the garage door itself. How would it work anyway? 30 seconds to park your car, run out, punch a keypad? Yeah I'm sure it's very common.

[tkyoshi]

Really? Do you know a lot of people that have this?

I've got an alarm hooked to the door to the house from garage, but never heard of the alarm being rigged to the garage door itself. How would it work anyway? 30 seconds to park your car, run out, punch a keypad? Yeah I'm sure it's very common.

Of all the people I know only ONE person has this setup. I don't like it, you have to park really fast then run to the alarm keypad to enter the code to shut it off before it triggers the whole thing.

The nice thing too is their garage is in this really tight alleyway so it's not very easy to park really fast, you usually have to reposition your car before you can get in perfectly -_-. Oh well, not my house!

[wpgguy99]

Of all the people I know only ONE person has this setup. I don't like it, you have to park really fast then run to the alarm keypad to enter the code to shut it off before it triggers the whole thing.

The nice thing too is their garage is in this really tight alleyway so it's not very easy to park really fast, you usually have to reposition your car before you can get in perfectly -_-. Oh well, not my house!

In Winnipeg, you need to have 2 triggers (Motion/door) for the cops to come out. If you have security guard feature they'll come out on one, ie the garage door moving. But that can cost every trip.

Also I always wondered why not just cut through the plastic pipe outside the garage. You now the electricity is in one of them, and the alarm cables must be in it as well.

All in all I don't think getting an a garage alarm monitored is worth it.

[Bastich]

Canadian Tire has an uglier version of this. It works on a plunger being compressed to indicate door closed so it must be mounted on the bottom, so anything other than completely closed would register as open.

It also has optional addon modules for things like windows and water sensors!

:cool:

[atong]

Of all the people I know only ONE person has this setup. I don't like it, you have to park really fast then run to the alarm keypad to enter the code to shut it off before it triggers the whole thing

really? don't people with alarm systems on their door have another remote to deactivate the alarm? that's what I have and a bunch of other people I know, you basically just push one button after another so there's no rush at all.

[bubble.tea]

Guess this is for people who have rampant ghosts who open up their garage doors? WTH??? Do people really suffer from this much absent-mindedness that they can't tell if it's closed or not?

[jochooi]

really? don't people with alarm systems on their door have another remote to deactivate the alarm? that's what I have and a bunch of other people I know, you basically just push one button after another so there's no rush at all.

Yep, same here. Looks like a someone's lost their remote alarm deactivator or never installed one in the first place -can't help you there mate.

[tkyoshi]

Yep, same here. Looks like a someone's lost their remote alarm deactivator or never installed one in the first place -can't help you there mate.

Well no there was no remote originally for the alarm. I guess people in the GVRD usually know when their garage door is closed/secured :P

Me personally, I don't really need it as the garage is attatched to the house so I can actually see it from inside the house, but I can understand it would be people who have detatched garages.

[sabrederek]

Guess this is for people who have rampant ghosts who open up their garage doors? WTH??? Do people really suffer from this much absent-mindedness that they can't tell if it's closed or not?


Yea, there called kids!

Had a simular unit on my garage for a few years and love it. Before the only way to tell if my garage door is open or not it to go out and look rain or shine, I have no door access from the house.

More that once I have come home from night shift and found the door left open. Either forgotten or door re-opened due to something being in the way.

I think I may even done myself once or twice.

[cannon_fodder]

Guess this is for people who have rampant ghosts who open up their garage doors? WTH??? Do people really suffer from this much absent-mindedness that they can't tell if it's closed or not?

We have had our garage door close... and then go back up because of obstructions (think ice accumulating at the bottom as the snow/slush your vehicles track in melts in the above freezing garage and then refreezes when at the garage door) or due to faulty wiring that shorts out now and then. Since we typically close the garage door just before entering the house, we have had it where the door has been left open. More common is driving away assuming that the door will stay down but it doesn't due to one of the aforementioned issues. This device wouldn't solve that problem.

[scoop]

Guess this is for people who have rampant ghosts who open up their garage doors? WTH??? Do people really suffer from this much absent-mindedness that they can't tell if it's closed or not?
You may have been joking - but this can actually be a problem. We have a detached garage and for a while it was randomnly opening. Figured out a new neighbour was causing the problem. Also read that somehow some school buses can set them off too.

[billybee]

Same here. My garage is detached from my house and I can't tell when the door is open. Walmart had a similar unit but you can add on Window sensors and motion sensors. It's about $30 too. Not sure if this is a better unit.

[rngun]

Of all the people I know only ONE person has this setup. I don't like it, you have to park really fast then run to the alarm keypad to enter the code to shut it off before it triggers the whole thing.

The nice thing too is their garage is in this really tight alleyway so it's not very easy to park really fast, you usually have to reposition your car before you can get in perfectly -_-. Oh well, not my house!

Some alarm systems have a different door zone for your garage. You can arm the system even if your garage door is open. When you close the garage door, the garage door is then armed. You can set a longer delay time to disarm on this zone, so you'll have enough time to park your car and go disarm the alarm.

[smoothyuk]

I picked this up yesterday in Ottawa (Rideau Centre), still has $59.99 on the package but sale price printouts surrounded the rack.

The product itself works pretty well, it's supposed to be factory configured to work out the box but that wasn't the case here (the learn mode is quick and easy).

All in all not bad, I'm thinking I never would have paid $60 for it though, $20 would have been more appealing for such a simple piece of kit.