Homelink programming frustration

[DonTom]

Have you tried setting the automatic close and open feature? I have and can not get it to work.

I could get the auto open to work, but not the auto close.

IMO, it's best to NOT use such anyway. The garage door opener sees no difference between an "open" and "close" command. You can leave and the garage door closes as it should. Go around the block, or pass your own garage later in the day and it could open when you do not want it to. And you might not even notice it opened as you drive by your own house.

This happened to me and I decided from then on, I want to control my garage by having to press the button.

So, IMO, just forget about the auto-open and auto-close. It's easy enough to press yourself as required.

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[drj3]

I love the auto open and auto close. It works great for me - except when cats are standing in front of the garage door's sensors. Anyone have a non-lethal fix for that?

 

[Akikiki]

I love the auto open and auto close. It works great for me - except when cats are standing in front of the garage door's sensors. Anyone have a non-lethal fix for that?

Non-lethal? No small children? Raise the height of the sensors anyway. To many folks have them too low and don't understand when the door comes down on their car. (The sensors see the wheels, but too late because the sensors missed the body.)

 

[DonTom]

I love the auto open and auto close. It works great for me -

How many feet did you set for your open and close?

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[Akikiki]

I back my car into my garage. I set the sensors at the height that insures the sensor's line across the door "sees" the point of the car front last as I back in. For instance, the lower splitter does not stick out as far as the front bumper fascia. So I want the line across to break the bumper/fascia. This prevents the door from starting to close and does not start until I have backed in far enough.

I suspect your next question is, how do I know when I have back in just far enough? I installed a motion activated dual laser parking aid on one side of the garage and point one of the lasers across the opening at the same height as the sensor's line. In order to see when the laser light crosses in front of the car, I use a small compact mirror mounted (with double sided tape) on the garage wall. The mirror reflects the light (a red dot) back across the opening at an angle up to a point where is hits the wall about 4 feet above garage floor. Since its reflected across the opening, hits a mirror and comes back to the same wall where the laser light aid is mounted, I can see it at driver height easily. When I see the red dot, I know I am safe to close the door and the door will absolutely miss the car . I use the other light on the aid, to point across the opening and above the mirror so that I know the aid's laser light is still turned on and the motion detection timeout has not occurred yet. Once in a while, I am slow to back in and the timeout occurs. I just pull forward out of the garage and back in again to trigger the light aid to turn on again.

I also have another mounted on the ceiling pointing down to two spots on the dash. When I see my relative position as another way as the ceiling mounted laser light's red dot hits the place on the dash that I am familiar with.

(More than you wanted to know?)

 

[drj3]

Instead of fancy lasers, I just put the rear camera on the screen. When I see the mark on the floor where the garage door comes down, I know I'm in far enough.

 

[Akikiki]

Yep that works too.

 

[drj3]

How many feet did you set for your open and close?

-Don- Auburn, CA

70 ft

 

[Akikiki]

auto open at 70, but auto close starts on my screen counting down from 20, 10, 5 then closes. Even when I don't see the little window open and count down, when I reach that distance (I think about 15-20 feet) it chimes and closes.

 

[Bobbo8]

Have you tried setting the automatic close and open feature? I have and can not get it to work.

Auto doesnt work for me also, I have to hit the icon to open the door. Any insite or work around?