Chamberlain discontinues its Home Bridge Hub that connected myQ garage door openers to HomeKit

The myQ Home Bridge Hub, which extended that control to the Apple Home app, has been out of stock on Chamberlain’s website for a few weeks, and the company confirmed to The Verge that it’s been discontinued.

“As our products continue to evolve, we have decided to discontinue production of our myQ Home Bridge Hubs,” George Rassas, group product manager at Chamberlain Group, said in an email. He also confirmed that existing Home Bridge Hubs will continue to work “for the foreseeable future.” 

He added that since its launch in 2017, less than 1 percent of myQ users were using the myQ Home Bridge. Considering how expensive it was, varying in price from $70 to $90 over the years, that’s not totally surprising. It’s a high price to pay just to add Siri voice control and Apple Home app compatibility to control your garage door. 

The myQ Home Bridge Hub connected your myQ-enabled garage door opener to Apple HomeKit. Image: Chamberlain Group

When asked, Chamberlain didn’t offer any alternative solutions for its HomeKit users. “Our goal is to provide compelling smart home solutions as we continue to work with leading connectivity brands to deliver seamless products and services that complete the smart home,” Rassas said.

If you have a Chamberlain garage door opener (and you probably do — along with its sister companies Liftmaster and Craftsman, Chamberlain owns over 65 percent of the US market), you can’t easily use a third-party retrofit smart controller to add extra smart home control, should you want it. Products from Tailwind, iSmartgate, or Meross — which can work with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple HomeKit — require special adaptors to work with Chamberlain Group brand openers.

The coming Matter smart home standard may fix this issue for users of myQ and HomeKit. Garage door controllers are part of the first Matter specification. When the new standard arrives this fall, it’s possible Chamberlain’s Wi-Fi-connected controllers could be upgraded to support Matter. Apple is fully committed to Matter, so this might bring about a way to connect the two without needing the now-discontinued hub. The Verge has reached out to Chamberlain, which is a member of the Connected Standards Alliance (the organization behind Matter), for clarification. We’ll update this story if we hear back.

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