Solved, Homelink not closing garage

[floydturbo]

This works for my situation, may not work for everyone. My problem was that after Homelink was installed last week it would not automatically close the garage door. Or course I had it set. It worked perfectly to open the door when I came home. I have a Genie brand that is older and has the rotating code type of remote. I also have the sensors at the bottom sides of my garage which sense dogs, etc, walking across the beam when closing the garage door. My situation is I open the garage door with the button on the garage wall and then enter the car and leave. It did not automatically close the door. What I found is that when you get home and the door automatically opens as I enter the garage and the car is blocking the beam sensors so the garage will not close I press the Homelink button on the screen to close the garage. It physically does not close due to the beam sensors being blocked by the car, but I guess the car thinks something, not really sure. After I get out of the car, I close the garage door with the button on the garage wall. I repeat this scenario and now when I leave the garage with the car it shows closing the door in 20 feet and it works. Not sure why, but it is repeatable for me.

 

[frankvb]

I wondered why it sometimes did not close the door when leaving, but this might actually have been the reason.

 

[floydturbo]

Update, for my situation when I leave the house homelink automatically closes the garage door and opens it when I return. When I leave the house and come to the first stop light, I press the homelink garage door button like I am opening the garage door. Of course I am out of range so nothing happens. For some reason, the software needs to have this done once each trip for it to work automatically in my situation. I no longer press the button as I posted in the first post.

 

[frankvb]

I've disabled the auto open/close as it was just too unreliable for me. I already have a auto open and close via Tailwind, only reason I wanted the homelink auto-close (which you can't set to only close which was also a bit annoying, it only allows close if you enable open) as the Tailwind only closes the door if you're a few hundred feet away.

So now I just manually close with the homelink screen button - and the Tailwind is the backup for that.

 

[Mr. Jim]

Update, for my situation when I leave the house homelink automatically closes the garage door and opens it when I return. When I leave the house and come to the first stop light, I press the homelink garage door button like I am opening the garage door. Of course I am out of range so nothing happens. For some reason, the software needs to have this done once each trip for it to work automatically in my situation. I no longer press the button as I posted in the first post.

I have the same issue. What is odd is that homelink works both ways for my wife's settings but not mine. I have to manually close the door unless I have just switched settings from hers to mine then it sometimes works.