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Mandates Battery Backup

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Mandates Battery Backup

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California Law SB 969 Mandates Battery Backup for Electric Garage Door Openers

California’s new Bill, Senate Bill 969 is a great step towards reinforcing life safety. 2018 was a destructive wildfire season for California which unfortunately caused fatalities. As a part of amelioration steps, the new law SB 969, effective from July 1^st 2019 mandates all the new residential Electric Garage Door Openers installed in California to be equipped with a battery backup. This is a strong law to prevent people from being trapped in their garages during power failures. [···]

Connected Garage Door

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Connected Garage Door

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Garage Door Technology Reaches New Heights With Skylink NOVA

The NOVA system allows standard garage door openers to connect to smart home systems. Through the SkylinkNet app for smartphones, users can connect to their garage door openers through Wi-Fi. It is also compatible with services like Amazon Alexa. The 12-watt LED light delivers the same brightness as a traditional 100-watt tungsten bulb. [···]

Retrofit Your Garage Door Openers to Work With Wi-Fi

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Retrofit Your Garage Door Openers to Work With Wi-Fi

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Retrofit Your Garage Door Openers to Work With Wi-Fi

The Skylink Nova controller operates up to two garage doors. The unit comes with one door sensor and you need one sensor ($20) for each additional garage door. [···]

ATOMS “Smart” Garage Door Opener

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ATOMS “Smart” Garage Door Opener

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ATOMS Smart Garage Door Opener Tech Review

Whether you’re looking for a new garage door opener or replacing an existing one, Skylink has a collection that is sure to fit your needs. We were able to test out the Atoms Belt Drive Opener after replacing our old chain opener that broke down on us. The Atoms was simple to install and so quiet, I had to check several times to make sure it was working. [···]

Best Smart Garage Door Openers Controller

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Best Smart Garage Door Openers Controller

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Skylink is launching the Nova, a Wi-Fi-enabled universal garage door opener that can be retrofitted to most existing garage doors. It’s compatible with Alexa and IFTTT, and is programmed to automatically open your garage doors when it hears a smoke or carbon monoxide detector alarm. It’s built into a large circular 12-watt LED, so it will provide lighting for your garage, too. The Nova will be available for $99 when it goes on sale this spring. [···]

Garage Door Opener Security

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Garage Door Opener Security

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Keep Your Home Better Protected While You Work With Skylink’s ATOMS™ Garage Door Opener

To keep you safer, the Skylink ATOMS™ Garage Door Opener has a revolutionary, patent-pending tamper proof trolly design to prevent forceable entry. It also utilizes Alexa Voice Service for maximum integration into the connected home. While you work, you can ask Alexa or use your smartphone to open and close the garage door to let clients into your home or have packages dropped off in the garage (so you don’t have to leave your desk). [···]

Nova Garage Door Controller

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Skylink Brings the Garage into the Smart Home at CES 2018

Remote controlled garage doors haven’t been particularly secure in the past and many people have disabled the feature because of the risk of break-ins to their homes through the garage. Todd and Frank discuss the problem and look at SkyLink Nova, a retrofit WiFi door opener. [···]

Nova Smart Garage Door Controller

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Nova Smart Garage Door Controller

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Skylink Group’s Nova smart garage door controller syncs with Amazon Alexa

Skylink Group, a leading provider of connected home safety solutions, debuted the NOVA at CES 2018. NOVA is a Wi-Fi enabled, universal garage door controller device that can be retrofitted directly onto most garage door controllers on the market. It transforms existing garage door openers into smart openers through the SkylinkNet iOS or Android app. [···]