The LiftMaster 87504-267 Secure View is the professionally installed answer to the camera-opener question, and it is the only product on this page with a numeric score from a standalone review — CNET's Molly Price rated it 7.8 out of 10 after a dealer installed two of them on her double-door garage. The camera retracts and rotates a full 360 degrees, the 2,000-lumen LED ring is brighter than anything else here, and The Spruce's tester ran one for three months and singled out the light. The trade-offs are consistent across both reviews: the camera feed lags, recorded video is subscription-gated, and because this is a dealer product rather than a big-box one, it is harder to find and harder to price than the Chamberlain alternatives.
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A dealer put two of them on one double garage
CNET's Molly Price did not test a review sample on a bench. A local authorized dealer installed two Secure View units on the two doors of her own garage, each with its own camera, and she then lived with the pair and photographed the results herself. That is an unusually thorough setup for this category, and it produced the only numeric score any standalone review has given to a product on this page: 7.8 out of 10.
Her top-line finding is worth quoting in full because it is measured rather than enthusiastic. The Secure View worked well in her testing, the belt drive was delightfully quiet, the setup was simple, and the advertised features worked. She also recorded that her unit was connected to Wi-Fi and to the myQ app in under ten minutes once the physical install was done, which separates the two halves of the job: the mounting is a professional's afternoon, the software is ten minutes.
Two thousand lumens in a ring, not a bulb
The lighting is this opener's most distinctive hardware and both reviewers noticed. LiftMaster wraps a 360-degree LED ring rated at 2,000 lumens around the head, and CNET's observation was that the 360-degree design leaves no corner in the shadows — a genuine difference from a bulb-based fixture, which throws light down and forward and leaves the walls behind the head dark. The Spruce's tester Kevin, running a unit for three months, went further and called it one of the brightest lights they had ever seen on a garage door opener.
In context that is roughly double the output of the Chamberlain B5330's two-bulb arrangement, from a fixture designed to spread rather than point. For a garage that doubles as a workshop or a place people actually walk through at night, this is the sort of specification that gets noticed daily long after the smart features have faded into the background. It is also a fixed part of the unit — there are no bulbs to source, unlike the Genie StealthDrive Connect 7155-TKV, which ships with empty sockets.
The camera retracts and you can aim it
The camera is a more considered piece of hardware than the fixed lens most integrated openers use. It shoots 1080p, retracts into the housing, and can be manually rotated through a full 360 degrees, so the field of view can be pointed at the door, at the workbench, or at the side entry depending on what the household actually wants watched. There is a speaker at its base for two-way audio and the night vision is black and white. LiftMaster's own specification describes a glare-resistant lens that auto-adjusts to the light level in the garage.
The Spruce's tester used it for a specific and very ordinary purpose: he had previously worried every night about whether the door was shut, so he set an automatic close for nine in the evening and uses the live feed to confirm it. That is the realistic value of a garage camera for most owners — not catching intruders, but ending a recurring low-grade anxiety — and it is the part of the feature set that works without paying anything extra.
Lag on the feed, every time the app opens
CNET's most specific criticism is the one a prospective buyer should weigh hardest, because it is about the feature the product is named for. She noticed that for each of her built-in cameras there was quite a bit of start-up lag when opening the app, and some intermittence in the feed while the garage doors were actually operating. That second part is the awkward one: the moment you most want to see the camera is the moment the door is moving, and that is when the stream is least reliable.
It appears in CNET's cons list as camera feed lag, alongside limited smart home integration and cost. None of these is a fault that stops the opener working — the door goes up and down quietly and reliably in both reviews — but they are the difference between a camera that feels instant and one that makes you wait. Anyone buying primarily for live monitoring should set expectations accordingly.
myQ, a bridge for Apple, and not much else
CNET is blunt about the platform: what myQ lacks is true integration with other smart home platforms, and while IFTTT provides a handful of workarounds for Alexa, myQ feels far behind. Apple users have a paid route in — LiftMaster sells a myQ HomeKit bridge as a separate accessory — but it is another purchase and another box on the wall for something the Genie StealthDrive Connect 7155-TKV does natively for Alexa and Google.
Where LiftMaster does connect is security. The Secure View integrates with Vivint, Ring and Alarm.com, and CNET tested the Ring integration directly. If the garage is already part of a monitored security setup rather than a general smart-home routine, that is the more relevant compatibility list, and it is a category the consumer-grade openers here do not play in at all. The Wi-Fi radio is 2.4 GHz only, which is normal for this class but worth knowing if your network hides that band.
Sold by dealers, which is why there is no price here
This is not a product you put in a cart at a big-box store. CNET describes it plainly as a dealer-only product and notes that this makes it less accessible than comparable models from Chamberlain — which is the same corporate group, selling nearly the same technology through the aisle instead of through an installer. For a buyer who is already having a dealer replace springs or hang a new door, that is no obstacle at all and possibly an advantage. For someone shopping on a Saturday, it is a real one.
It is also the reason this listing carries no price. LiftMaster's own site does not publish one — it is a where-to-buy catalogue rather than a store — and the retail listings that do carry the SKU could not be read directly. Rather than repeat a figure lifted second-hand from another publisher's affiliate widget, the price is left blank here. Expect it to land above the Chamberlain B5330 and expect installation to be quoted separately.
Choose it when a professional is already coming
The 87504-267 makes sense for a specific buyer: someone with a double or oversized door, already engaging a dealer, who wants the brightest lighting available and a camera they can physically aim. Two independent reviewers installed it, one scored it, and both agreed on quiet operation and excellent hardware. The diagnostics in the app — battery state, cycle count, signal strength, sensor alignment — are the kind of thing that turns a service call into a phone check, and no other opener here exposes them.
Skip it if you want to buy an opener and install it the same weekend, in which case the Chamberlain B5330 gives you a camera and myQ from a shelf. Skip it if voice control matters, because the Genie StealthDrive Connect 7155-TKV handles Alexa and Google without an accessory. And skip it if you simply need a door to open, where the Genie ChainDrive 550 (2035-TKV) does that job for a fraction of the outlay.
Strengths
- +A 360-degree LED ring rated at 2,000 lumens — The Spruce called it one of the brightest lights they have seen on a garage door opener
- +CNET found the belt drive delightfully quiet across two units installed on a double-door garage
- +The camera retracts, rotates manually through 360 degrees, has two-way audio and black-and-white night vision
- +The myQ app surfaces genuinely useful diagnostics: battery state, lifetime cycle count, Wi-Fi signal strength and photo-eye alignment
- +Integrates with Vivint, Ring and Alarm.com security systems, which CNET tested with Ring
Watch-outs
- −CNET measured noticeable start-up lag opening the app and intermittent camera feed while the doors were moving
- −Recorded clips need a subscription; without one you get the live view only
- −Apple HomeKit works only by buying LiftMaster's separate myQ HomeKit bridge accessory
- −Sold through dealers rather than big-box retail, which makes it harder to buy and harder to price
- −2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only
How it compares
This and the Chamberlain B5330 are the two camera openers here, and they run the same myQ app because both brands belong to the same group — the difference is channel and lighting. The LiftMaster is a dealer install with a 360-degree 2,000-lumen ring; the B5330 is a big-box unit with two bulbs and roughly half the output. Neither will answer to a voice assistant without extra hardware, which is the argument for the Genie StealthDrive Connect 7155-TKV instead.
Rating sources
“The LiftMaster Secure View worked well in my testing. The belt drive was delightfully quiet. The setup was simple and the advertised features worked well.”
“On the app, you can check the status of the battery as well as how many cycles the opener has run, the strength of the Wi-Fi signal, and if the sensors are aligned.”
Our 4.2 score is the average of these published ratings. Ratings marked * were derived from the reviewer’s written analysis or video transcript — the publisher didn’t print an explicit numeric score, so we inferred one from their own words. Click through to verify. More about methodology.
