beam Home

Beam Labs

About this app

beam is the simple and secure way to control and monitor your garage door from anywhere in the world, without replacing your existing garage door opener. The app uses industry-standard security technology to keep your data—and access to your garage—safe and secure.

With beam, you can:
- Control one garage door with a Smart Control Kit installed *
- Customize your door name
- Recieve notifications if you’ve left your door open
- Grant access to your friends and family—no need to buy extra remotes!
- Monitor your door’s activity
- Setup integrations with other smarthome products and services, such as Amazon Alexa and IFTTT
- Lock app via fingerprint

*The beam app requires the purchase and installation of a Smart Control Kit, which is compatible with garage door openers made after 1993 with a photo-eye safety system, with sectional doors. Learn more at beamlabs.io.

Ratings and reviews

Most of the time, I can't even get the app to finish loading. Just sits there, loading... Also, the IFTTT integration doesn't work well if you have more than 1 garage door with BeamUp. For example, I can select either sure to close at 9pm, but not both. I can't even duplicate the rule (unless I go through IFTTTs interface). No Google home support. Would be sweat if it could use my phone's location and Bluetooth sensing to know which car I'm in and which garage door to open/close.

Upgrade from 10+ year (v0.1) garagio. App operation and install roughly the same. Like the option to change from swipe. And beeper at the door when closing from the app. Would not program to wifi using Samsung S20. Figured out the phone in dark mode seems to toggle the flashing screen polarity. Turning on Android system display light mode worked. Tiny QR code on sensor could never be read. So had to hand enter the numbers.

There is a substantial need to invest in your app development. There is no direct Google home integration, cannot login to iftt with the embedded UI. The garage door opener and hardware is top notch - the software is the polar opposite. It doesn't make sense. Saved round - the android auto app doesn't work, so 0/5 on that aspect.

What’s new

This release:
Now beam home is compatible with Android Car