Enroll in the 30-day free trial and use the coupon code in your welcome email to order a FREE* Smart Garage Control ($29.99 USD value). Then connect your device to experience myQ Connected Garage.

1/2 times

Never wonder if you left your garage door open again. Open, close and monitor your garage door—safely from your touchscreen.

Chamberlain Group, the parent company to LiftMaster, myQ, and Chamberlain, is a global leader in intelligent access. Our innovative products, combined with intuitive software solutions, are part of a myQ ecosystem that delivers seamless, secure, access to people's homes, communities, and businesses. Read our story.

Engineers apply the knowledge of math & science to design and manufacture maintainable systems used to solve specific problems. AskEngineers is a forum for questions about the technologies, standards, and processes used to design & build these systems, as well as for questions about the engineering profession and its many disciplines.

1/2 inch wood strips

Geofenced open and close allows automatic, hands-free control of your garage. You can even set your preferred geofence distance for your garage to open automatically.

Now for the more complicated part of the question (for me conceptually anyway).. if that 2x6 is placed between two trusses, how is the is the weight on each truss calculated? It seems simple that 100# weight would be 50# on each truss? Trusses are rated at a "pounds per square foot", and my truss' bottom chords are rated at 5# psf, and the ceiling and insulation are 3#, so that leaves a capacity of 2# psf..

What happens to the weight capacity of the board if the load is not placed in the center of the 8 foot span? What if the weight is 2 feet from one end and 6 from the other?

Your single myQ subscription works across multiple Tesla vehicles. No matter how large your fleet gets everyone can be connected to the smart garage for seamless access. Your subscription can even be transferred to another Tesla during its term.

1/2 times 0

11/3 times 6

With myQ Connected Garage you can see the status of every garage door that's connected to your Tesla. Your myQ will know not to close an already open garage door so there's no confusion when you arrive home.

With myQ smart technology, all Tesla Model 3, Model Y, 2021+ Model S and Model X as well as Cybertruck have the power to automatically open and close the garage whether you're coming home or heading out. Get started right from your Tesla touchscreen and try myQ Connected Garage with a 30-day free trial!

Note: If you wish to hear a Chime when the Auto-Open/Auto-Close feature is activated, enable the feature on the bottom/left of your myQ Connected Garage screen

Was talking with a friend about hanging deer in garages/sheds/etc, which got me wondering several things.. what I've been doing has been working fine for years and years, I'm just basically curious at this point.

I'm not understanding the rating and capacity of trusses, because 2# per square foot doesn't seem like much, yet if I hang from a truss (or stand on one in the attic), nothing happens? I'm curious how much weight it would realistically take before I'd be in the "not sure if this is a good idea" range..