Aladdin Connect

Overhead Door Corporation

About this app

Aladdin Connect allows you to monitor and control you garage door from anywhere. The Aladdin Connect app works with any Genie Wi-Fi-enabled garage door opener or retrofit kit and can be set up in minutes. The app controls up to 20 garage door openers or retrofit kits and allows you to do the following:

· Open or close the door from your smartphone

· Check whether the door is open or closed from anywhere, using your smartphone

· Get notified if your door is opened or closed and customize notifications

· Add up to 20 family or guest users and get notified when they operate the door

· Set up rules to automatically notify you or close the garage if the garage door is open at night or open for a long time. For more information, visit http://www.geniecompany.com/aladdinconnect/

If you have any questions, please refer to our FAQ.
https://docs.aladdinconnect.net/faq/aladdinconnect.html

Ratings and reviews

Initial install is very easy and straightforward if you have minimal handyman skills, know a hammer from a screwdriver. Wifi is a bit difficult to initially set-up, but once connected it auto reconnects flawlessly after power or wifi outages. If you could turn the light on and off with the app, I would give it 5 stars. Don't know how difficult or expensive that feature would be, but it already has wifi switch activation, so one more relay should have been a no-brainer.

I would not recommend this product. If I could give it 0 stars, I would. The opener frequently loses its connection & can only be fixed by resetting its power. Other devices, even those further from the router & with more walls in between, don't have this issue. In fact, there is only a window & a thin garage door between the router & opener. This becomes a major inconvenience when someone doesn't have a garage door opener in their car or when we need to let people in when we we're not home.

Basic installation instructions guide you easily through the install process until it starts configuring the unit. Never get past the red circle and a message like "if connected to your WiFi network...". Finished the install by going into my apps/WiFi connection and stop/start WiFi allowing my home WiFi to connect. The app is generic, lacks options, and if compared to the Chamberlain MyQ app it's not in the same league. Other than that door opener great.

What's new

Bugs fixed.