Published on: May 17, 2019
We have exciting NEWS for our Genie Aladdin Connect Smart Garage Door Openers and Controller! They are now even smarter! Aladdin Connect is now compatible with the most popular smart home platforms including Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa.
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*Jan 2020 UPDATE*
The Genie Aladdin Connect Smart Garage Door Openers and add-on kits are now Amazon Alexa Certified
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Expanding our smart home integrations with Aladdin Connect while others are restricting theirs, puts you in control of the security of your home. The award-winning Aladdin Connect App already provides many great features such as time-based rules and virtual keys that make the lives of homeowners more secure and convenient! With these new integrations, you can now access the Aladdin Connect Smart Garage Door Opener by using the Aladdin Connect Garage Door Opener App, through the Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa speakers and home automation devices with more coming soon.
The smart home technology that you use all over the home with your lights, or your thermostat can now be used in the garage, with the Genie Aladdin Connect and now you have an Alexa smart garage door opener or an Google Assistant smart garage door opener! No additional devices are needed to be able to use your favorite smart home platform of Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant with Genie Aladdin Connect. If you have a Genie garage door opener with integrated Aladdin Connect, you simply just need to link your Aladdin Connect App to the smart home app of your choice. If you have the Aladdin Connect add-on kit, guess what? The process is just as easy, no repeaters or add-on bridges to make smart home and Aladdin Connect work together.
These new features with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are NOW available for new and existing Aladdin Connect users. The Aladdin Connect FREE downloadable App is FREE to use and makes having control and piece of mind over your garage door much easier! Your existing Genie Aladdin Connect garage door opener now becomes an Alexa smart garage door opener, or a Google Assistant smart garage door opener!
Instructions for use with Alexa and available commands can be found here
Instructions for use with Google Assistant and available commands can be found here
Make your life easier by just asking Alexa to have Aladdin Connect close or open your garage door!
47 comments
@Norman C
If you integrate the Aladdin Connect with our Smart Home Partner, https://www.brilliant.tech/home, you will have the functionality of Apple Home Kit
Similar to RodelP, I just installed the Connect but I cannot get it to integrate into my “routines”. It is simply not listed under Smart Home in the Alexa app. Is there anyway to achieve this?
@Danielle Those instructions seem to be for the old app, which was replaced early September if I’m not mistaken. I to can not get the new app to work with alexa routines. Nothing I do seems to get Alexa to recognize the doors as devices. I’ve set the names in Alexa and in Aladdin the same (why are there 2 different places to name the same device in Aladdin?); tried removing the devices from alexa, changing the names in aladdin, power cycling the units, and reconnecting to alexa. Old names show up, they still don’t work.
Do we have updated instruction for getting Aladdin to work with alexa past "alexa, open the garage door?
When are we going to get Apple HomeKit support so we can say “Her Siri, open garage door”?
@RodelP in regards to this question: “Could Aladdin Connect be integrated with Alexa’s “Routine”? Or is it already integrated? I tried, but could not make it work. I would like Alexa to routinely announce whether a garage door has been opened or closed when the garage door is triggered”
Yes Aladdin Connect is fully compatible with Alexa. Previously there was a custom skill for Aladdin Connect, and that has been upgraded with the new smart home skill. If you are using the previous version, you will need to delete, and download the smart home skill for Aladdin Connect. Instructions for setting up Aladdin Connect with Alexa are found here: https://www.geniecompany.com/data/products/aladdinconnect/Smart-Home-Voice-Control-Instructions_Amazon.pdf
We can also assist you with the setup at 1-866-599-4995.