[Shop-talk] Today's joy - garage door openers

[John Innis]

SOME types of remotes can learn from an existing remote.  For example the
homelink transmitter in my car was able to learn form my existing remote
for my garage door opener.  This does not always work.  When it doesn't the
OPENER must learn a new remote.  There is usually a "learn" button on the
opener circuit board that you press to tell it you want it to recognize a
new remote, then you press the button on the remote to transmit that
remotes code.  If you can take the cover off the gate opener there are
often instructions inside.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'll keep this one short:
>
> 1) House has gate (gate was always open when looking at house; was told
> gate never closes. This is a lie. Gate closes.)
>
> 2) Was loaned a garage door opener to open gate. Instructions were to buy
> a garage door opener remote than can learn from existing remote (like a
> learning t.v. remote control).
>
> 3) Cannot find such an opener, which jibes with my experience--you make
> the new remote learn from the mechanical _opener_, not the existing remote,
> either from a button on the opener or (ugh) tiny little dip switches.
>
> 4) Also have HomeLink-esque things in some cars' sun visors. Would like
> those to work on gate too.
>
> Question: am I mounting a clandestine reconnaissance on the gate and its
> opener to make the remotes learn from the gate opener like I would if this
> was my garage door opener, or am I and my Googling incorrect and I can make
> new remotes learn from existing remotes in the fashion of a learning t.v.
> remote control?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
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