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
@Rob
Aladdin Connect works with “just ask Alexa” as a custom skill, at the time there wasn’t a smart home skill for the garage. This is why it requires the “Ask Aladdin Connect”. We are working on the smart home skill coming soon, so that you’ll be able to say Alexa, open my garage door. More details to soon come.
Can you make it so that we can rename the “Aladdin Connect” command so that we can change it. Too lenghty! I would rather just say “Alexa, close garage door” rather than say “Alexa, Ask Aladdin Connect to close door 1”. Better for me if I could rename door 1, then ask Alexa to close or open it.
@Jon Velasco,
Please unlink(disable) the Aladdin Connect skill from your Alexa. Once you do this then re-enable/re-link, this should take care of it. If not please call us at 1-866-599-4995
The Alexa skill broke a few weeks ago and still has not been patch to work as of today (11/15/19). Alexa connect to “Alladin Connect” but every command is “Sorry, I had some problem processing your request.”
@Robert Squires
Hi Rober, We are sorry to hear this. Unfortunately Amazon does not have a skill for Alexa for garage door openers, which is the reason we use “Just Ask Alexa” since it is a custom skill.