Gadgetory

when we talk about home automation ideally we're not just talking about a home that responds to button pushes or voice commands we're talking about a home that reacts when you act today we're taking a look at Garage EO Garage IO is basically a retrofit device that attaches to your already existing garage door controller and from there it turns it into an app connected fully integrated smart home piece of technology now if it were just app connected it really wouldn't be that impressive the simple garage EO app really only offers the same functionality that you get out of the controller that's already attached to the Sun Visor in your car where garage really stands out against the competition is its integration possibilities with platforms like IFFT and Amazon echo my favorite integration using if was the geofencing option basically when I would drive up to the home if would send a message to garage EO which would automatically open my garage door finally gracio works with Amazon echo well I do like the idea of voice control for my garage I don't really like the way that it works with Amazon echo at this point because the garage EO still isn't native to echo you actually have to kind of treat it like an app on your mobile device or if you want to just give one simple command you have to say Alexa tell garage EO to open your garage at the end of the day I really like what garage EO is doing with IFFT but I'm not a huge fan of how it works with Alexa and until that gets sharpened I really can't make a strong recommendation