If someone smashes the window on your car they can grab the opener and get into your house.
the built in only works with the car on.
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the built in only works with the car on.
Interesting. I have the same version but I don’t have that button. Curious to see if anyone else has it.
It shows up in the app after OTA build 40.3 is loaded. I don't have FSD and the Homelink app button showed up yesterday after the download of 40.3.
Good catch. I just checked and my other car with FSD has that feature. I’m guessing there is some plan to integrate opening and closing the garage door with FSD.
My other car is running 40.3, so that makes sense. Our FSD car has consistently received software updates earlier than my non-FSD car.
The feature is not that important to me because I have a WIFI enabled garage door opener that I can open and close using my IPhone. But if I didn’t have this, at least I could open and close the garage door remotely if the car was in or near the garage. Other than that I can’t think of any benefit to having it.
TMS
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I can confirm that my Model 3 Long Range with 2020.40.3 software has the homelink button now! Although I have FSD, this button didn't show up on the app prior to the 40.3 software version.
Problem: The homelink button just says are you sure yes|no, but you can have up to 3 garage doors programmed in. So today the app opened my left garage door instead of the right (the right is the first choice in my list and it has always done the right from the app). No big deal I just walked in the other side, but what if the two garage doors I had programmed in were house/beach house? What logic is the app using to select which programmed in garage door it tries to open? Does anyone know?
JCtx
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Can you program Homelink to appear as a 'widget' on the screen, wherever you want it to be? Where is the button if you want to use it in manual mode? How many touches of the screen you need to access it? Just curious. By the way, if you want to use your existing remove, tape it to the back (below) of the screen, and it'd be invisible, and super easy to reach 
. I'm probably going to do that, as we're not interested in auto operation anyway.
. I'm probably going to do that, as we're not interested in auto operation anyway.
I don’t use the automatic opening/closing at all. Never will due to the fact that it really just “toggles” and doesn’t know if the door is already up or down.
I do prefer the built in method over the portable opener for secure reasons. If my car is in the drive and someone smashes the window they cannot access the garage easily.
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