Your garage door is the largest opening in your house. It should report to somebody.
Somewhere on I-10, twenty minutes from the house, every Texan has asked the same question: did I close the garage? The honest answer is usually yes. The expensive answer is the one time it was no — because an open garage door is not a door, it is an invitation with your lawn equipment behind it.
Fixed written quote after a free survey — we beat any written competitor quote
The door burglars like best
Police reports across Bexar County tell a consistent story: the garage is a favorite way in. Not by force — by opportunity. A door left open while somebody runs an errand, an opener remote clipped to the visor of a car parked in the driveway, an interior door from garage to kitchen that nobody thinks of as an exterior door and nobody locks. The garage holds the tools that open the rest of the house, and in most floor plans it connects straight to it.
Smart garage control closes the whole category. A tilt sensor on the door tells the system — and you — whether it is up or down at any moment. The app closes it from anywhere. And the interior door into the house gets a contact sensor like any other exterior opening, because that is what it actually is.
What integrated control actually does
The controller wires to your existing opener — the chain-drive Genie that came with the house works fine in almost every case — and joins the same system as your alarm, cameras and locks. From there the useful behaviors stack up. The door that is still open at 10 p.m. announces itself instead of waiting to be discovered. Arming the system for the night closes the garage as part of locking up. Leaving in the morning arms the house and shuts the door behind you in one gesture.
The app answers the I-10 question in one glance, and closes the door from the on-ramp if the answer was no. Deliveries stop being a doorstep gamble: open the garage remotely for the driver, watch on the camera, close it when the box is inside. And every open and close is logged, which is how one customer discovered his door had been opening at 2 a.m. — a neighbor kid had cloned the fixed-code remote of his twenty-year-old opener. The new controller uses rolling-code encryption; that trick died with it.
Installed by the people who wired the rest of the system
This is an afternoon of work for a technician who already knows your panel: controller wired to the opener head, tilt sensor on the door, contact on the interior passage door, everything tested from the app and from the keypad before we leave. If your opener is old enough to lack the safety-reversal hardware — genuinely dangerous and common in houses that have not touched the garage since the nineties — we will tell you plainly rather than bolt smart control onto an unsafe machine.
Like everything we install, it arrives as part of one fixed written quote after a free survey, it is covered by free service calls with no trip charge, and if any licensed competitor quotes the same scope for less in writing, we beat their number.
What is included
- Close it from anywhereThe I-10 question, answered and fixed from the app in five seconds.
- Tilt sensor on the doorThe system knows up from down — and tells you at 10 p.m., not next morning.
- Arms and closes togetherLocking up for the night shuts the garage as part of the same gesture.
- Works with your openerWires to nearly any existing opener — no need to replace a healthy machine.
- Rolling-code securityRetires the fixed-code remotes that clone with a $20 gadget.
- Interior door sensored tooThe garage-to-kitchen door is an exterior door. We treat it like one.
Questions people actually ask
- Will it work with my existing garage door opener? +
- Almost always. The controller wires to the opener you already own — most brands and ages back to the mid-nineties are compatible. The free survey confirms yours specifically, and if the opener itself is unsafe or failing, we say so before quoting anything smart on top of it.
- Can the system close the door automatically at night? +
- Yes — on a schedule, or as part of arming the alarm. Most families set both: arming Stay at bedtime closes the door if it is open, and a 10 p.m. rule catches the nights nobody armed anything.
- What if the door closes on something? +
- The opener’s own safety-reversal system — the photo-eyes and force limits — remains fully in charge, exactly as with the wall button. Remote closes also sound an audible warning beep before the door moves, as required by UL 325.
- Does it tell me when the door opens while I’m away? +
- Every open and close is logged and can push an alert to your phone. If the door goes up at 2 p.m. you will know whether that is the teenager home early or something worth a look at the cameras.
Smart Garage Door Control across Texas
We install and service this in all four metros, and in every community within fifty miles of downtown San Antonio. Service calls carry no trip charge regardless of how far out the address is.
Free survey · No obligation
Bring us a written quote. We will beat it.
Any competitor, comparable scope, in writing. A licensed technician walks your property, maps the real entry points and gives you a fixed number — whether or not you hire us.
TX DPS PSB Lic. #B16898 · Serving San Antonio, Austin, Houston & Dallas since 2010