Garage Door Opener Problem
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Garage Door Opener Problem
So I programmed one of the mirror buttons to open my garage door. I have an old single-code garage door opener and programming the car couldn't have been easier. I've used it dozens of times and it works fine, however, when I have a passenger in the car it does not work. It's the weirdest thing. When it happened the first time, I just thought it was a fluke, but it's happened three times now. I come home, hit the button, and nothing happens. I had my wife get out of the car and tried it again, still nothing. Does anybody have any idea why it's doing this and how I make it work correctly?
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It was my wife all three times, but I can't imagine what she could have on/with her that would interfere with the signal. I'm not even sure she had her purse with her, but even if she did, it wouldn't have anything in it that would block the signal. A cell phone, a wallet, and some other random junk in there. She does have an AirTag in her purse, maybe it's that, but I can't imagine that block the garage door signal, which is what, RF ?
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It was my wife all three times, but I can't imagine what she could have on/with her that would interfere with the signal. I'm not even sure she had her purse with her, but even if she did, it wouldn't have anything in it that would block the signal. A cell phone, a wallet, and some other random junk in there. She does have an AirTag in her purse, maybe it's that, but I can't imagine that block the garage door signal, which is what, RF ?
Best approach finding the culprit is process of elimination. No, I'm not suggesting to have your wife whacked
. Have her leave her purse etc. in the house or have somebody else ride with you to see if it's the presence of a passenger in the seat triggering an odd bug, or indeed something or someone interfering with the signal. The human body itself also interferes. The Homelink frequency range is right in the sweet spot of where the human body is most efficient at absorbing radio signals. You may have experienced in the past with transistor radios receiving static if you touch the antenna or even got near to it. Potentially a static charge from a piece of clothing could also interfere.
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One more thought. It might likely come down to getting a new modern GDO with rolling codes. It's possible that the antenna and receiver circuit in yours has degraded to the point that it doesn't take much for the signal not to be strong enough anymore to reach it. Something as simple as another human body absorbing some of the signal could be enough for it to fail.
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I guess that or go old school and bring the clicker to the vehicle and open it in a traditional way. Which in a way stinks after all homelink isn't standard and something you pay for, not getting money's worth then.
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Or a smart garage opener that can be retrofitted and allows opening/closing the garage from one's smartphone or with Hey Mercedes if it's a myQ.
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Did she have her car key with her in the car? I know with a lot of these modern cars that many functions are specific to the current driver and switch when there is another driver. If my wife gets to the door of our X5 first, everything from the seat and mirror positions to the audio system and interior lighting colors change to her settings.
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Did she have her car key with her in the car? I know with a lot of these modern cars that many functions are specific to the current driver and switch when there is another driver. If my wife gets to the door of our X5 first, everything from the seat and mirror positions to the audio system and interior lighting colors change to her settings.
On another note, I tried opening the garage with the buttons I set on her Q5, with both of us in the car, and it works... Next I'm gonna try a couple scenarios in the Mercedes.
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[QUOTE=DV8Cellars;9082640]My garage door opener is older than cavemen apparently and so the MyQ won't work with it but the Meross one should work.
I have the Meross unit. It was an inexpensive (Amazon) simple install and it works flawlessly with my 25 year old garage door opener. 95% of the time I am in my car I use the button on the rearview mirror. My main use case for the Meross is for when I am not in my car and I'm outside and want to open or close the garage door. For example, if I go for a walk or a friend picks me up as it is easier for us to enter the house through the garage door. I just tell my iPhone or Apple Watch, "Hey Siri, open/close the garage door." And it works with CarPlay, too.
I have the Meross unit. It was an inexpensive (Amazon) simple install and it works flawlessly with my 25 year old garage door opener. 95% of the time I am in my car I use the button on the rearview mirror. My main use case for the Meross is for when I am not in my car and I'm outside and want to open or close the garage door. For example, if I go for a walk or a friend picks me up as it is easier for us to enter the house through the garage door. I just tell my iPhone or Apple Watch, "Hey Siri, open/close the garage door." And it works with CarPlay, too.
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I have the Meross unit. It was an inexpensive (Amazon) simple install and it works flawlessly with my 25 year old garage door opener. 95% of the time I am in my car I use the button on the rearview mirror. My main use case for the Meross is for when I am not in my car and I'm outside and want to open or close the garage door. For example, if I go for a walk or a friend picks me up as it is easier for us to enter the house through the garage door. I just tell my iPhone or Apple Watch, "Hey Siri, open/close the garage door." And it works with CarPlay, too.
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Upon further review, it appears that even the Meross unit requires the garage door opener to have a "Learn button" and it appears that my opener is so old, it doesn't have a learn button. So that's not going to work for me, I will probably just get a new garage door opener sometime soon.
HOWEVER...... The problem doesn't appear to be with my garage door opener, it appears to be some sort of weird thing with the car. Because, I went out last night, with the wife in the car, pulled the car out of the garage, wife got in, and it worked, the garage closed. BUT, when I returned home, I pulled into the driveway, where it works every time when it's just me in the car, and IT DID NOT WORK. The button on the rear view mirror didn't work, AND, I brought the actual garage door opener with me, that did not work either. My wife got out of the car and went into the house to open the garage for me and even with her not only not in the car but nowhere near the car, nothing opened the garage except the hard wired button inside the garage. And like I said in my last post, the button in my wifes Q5 works fine with both of us in the Q5...
So what could be happening?
I'm going to play around with this today and see if I can figuere something out, this is really frustrating.
HOWEVER...... The problem doesn't appear to be with my garage door opener, it appears to be some sort of weird thing with the car. Because, I went out last night, with the wife in the car, pulled the car out of the garage, wife got in, and it worked, the garage closed. BUT, when I returned home, I pulled into the driveway, where it works every time when it's just me in the car, and IT DID NOT WORK. The button on the rear view mirror didn't work, AND, I brought the actual garage door opener with me, that did not work either. My wife got out of the car and went into the house to open the garage for me and even with her not only not in the car but nowhere near the car, nothing opened the garage except the hard wired button inside the garage. And like I said in my last post, the button in my wifes Q5 works fine with both of us in the Q5...
So what could be happening?
I'm going to play around with this today and see if I can figuere something out, this is really frustrating.
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Upon further review, it appears that even the Meross unit requires the garage door opener to have a "Learn button" and it appears that my opener is so old, it doesn't have a learn button. So that's not going to work for me, I will probably just get a new garage door opener sometime soon.
HOWEVER...... The problem doesn't appear to be with my garage door opener, it appears to be some sort of weird thing with the car. Because, I went out last night, with the wife in the car, pulled the car out of the garage, wife got in, and it worked, the garage closed. BUT, when I returned home, I pulled into the driveway, where it works every time when it's just me in the car, and IT DID NOT WORK. The button on the rear view mirror didn't work, AND, I brought the actual garage door opener with me, that did not work either. My wife got out of the car and went into the house to open the garage for me and even with her not only not in the car but nowhere near the car, nothing opened the garage except the hard wired button inside the garage. And like I said in my last post, the button in my wifes Q5 works fine with both of us in the Q5...
So what could be happening?
I'm going to play around with this today and see if I can figuere something out, this is really frustrating.
HOWEVER...... The problem doesn't appear to be with my garage door opener, it appears to be some sort of weird thing with the car. Because, I went out last night, with the wife in the car, pulled the car out of the garage, wife got in, and it worked, the garage closed. BUT, when I returned home, I pulled into the driveway, where it works every time when it's just me in the car, and IT DID NOT WORK. The button on the rear view mirror didn't work, AND, I brought the actual garage door opener with me, that did not work either. My wife got out of the car and went into the house to open the garage for me and even with her not only not in the car but nowhere near the car, nothing opened the garage except the hard wired button inside the garage. And like I said in my last post, the button in my wifes Q5 works fine with both of us in the Q5...
So what could be happening?
I'm going to play around with this today and see if I can figuere something out, this is really frustrating.
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I did that already. I programmed the 2nd button, so button 1 and 2 both open the garage door, when it's just me in the car. But still, the physical remote didn't open the door when my wife was in the car, and like I said, it still didn't work after she was out of the car and nowhere near the car or the door. It's just weird.
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Upon further review, it appears that even the Meross unit requires the garage door opener to have a "Learn button" and it appears that my opener is so old, it doesn't have a learn button. So that's not going to work for me, I will probably just get a new garage door opener sometime soon.
HOWEVER...... The problem doesn't appear to be with my garage door opener, it appears to be some sort of weird thing with the car. Because, I went out last night, with the wife in the car, pulled the car out of the garage, wife got in, and it worked, the garage closed. BUT, when I returned home, I pulled into the driveway, where it works every time when it's just me in the car, and IT DID NOT WORK. The button on the rear view mirror didn't work, AND, I brought the actual garage door opener with me, that did not work either. My wife got out of the car and went into the house to open the garage for me and even with her not only not in the car but nowhere near the car, nothing opened the garage except the hard wired button inside the garage. And like I said in my last post, the button in my wifes Q5 works fine with both of us in the Q5...
So what could be happening?
I'm going to play around with this today and see if I can figuere something out, this is really frustrating.
HOWEVER...... The problem doesn't appear to be with my garage door opener, it appears to be some sort of weird thing with the car. Because, I went out last night, with the wife in the car, pulled the car out of the garage, wife got in, and it worked, the garage closed. BUT, when I returned home, I pulled into the driveway, where it works every time when it's just me in the car, and IT DID NOT WORK. The button on the rear view mirror didn't work, AND, I brought the actual garage door opener with me, that did not work either. My wife got out of the car and went into the house to open the garage for me and even with her not only not in the car but nowhere near the car, nothing opened the garage except the hard wired button inside the garage. And like I said in my last post, the button in my wifes Q5 works fine with both of us in the Q5...
So what could be happening?
I'm going to play around with this today and see if I can figuere something out, this is really frustrating.
Your observed behavior is definitely strange. Now that you are saying your clicker didn't work, either, I have another thought. When was the last time you put in a fresh battery? I ran into this in the past. If the battery is too weak in the clicker, then it either doesn't program or doesn't program correctly. Repeat everything with a fresh battery.
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The Meross does not need a learn button. It hardwires to the dry contacts of the GDO. Their website is a bit confusing on that part. Newer GDOs that use the new Security+ 2.0 Homelink protocol need an adapter to work with Meross and that adapter is what has to be programmed via the learn button. The Meross actually works best with older GDOs. It wires to the same contacts as the button on your garage wall.
Your observed behavior is definitely strange. Now that you are saying your clicker didn't work, either, I have another thought. When was the last time you put in a fresh battery? I ran into this in the past. If the battery is too weak in the clicker, then it either doesn't program or doesn't program correctly. Repeat everything with a fresh battery.
Your observed behavior is definitely strange. Now that you are saying your clicker didn't work, either, I have another thought. When was the last time you put in a fresh battery? I ran into this in the past. If the battery is too weak in the clicker, then it either doesn't program or doesn't program correctly. Repeat everything with a fresh battery.
As far as the remote, it's got a fresh battery, so that's not it.
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Yeah, probably time to get a new opener. Rolling codes replaced fixed code openers in the mid nineties, so yours must be over 30 years old.
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I did that already. I programmed the 2nd button, so button 1 and 2 both open the garage door, when it's just me in the car. But still, the physical remote didn't open the door when my wife was in the car, and like I said, it still didn't work after she was out of the car and nowhere near the car or the door. It's just weird.
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Interesting. Seems pretty cool, but what if you don't want the garage door to open when you get home? And how long does it take for it to close the door when you leave?
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I guess you would have to turn off the fob if you have an iPhone. Android it works by the phone. For closing you set a distance away from your home in the app and if you car is beyond that it shuts. It is really for if you forgot to shut the door when you leave but you can use it as automation if you want. I had the Meross and I found I had to reboot it more than I wanted to plus it does not have the automation part. Ratego is another one people like if you have Home Assistant. Tailwind is Apple HomeKit out of the box.
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I guess you would have to turn off the fob if you have an iPhone. Android it works by the phone. For closing you set a distance away from your home in the app and if you car is beyond that it shuts. It is really for if you forgot to shut the door when you leave but you can use it as automation if you want. I had the Meross and I found I had to reboot it more than I wanted to plus it does not have the automation part. Ratego is another one people like if you have Home Assistant. Tailwind is Apple HomeKit out of the box.
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I ended up getting the Meross, I installed it and added it to HomeKit and right after that it worked. Then later that day I tried asking Siri to open the garage door, No Response. So now, throughout the day, I look on HomeKit and sometimes it says No Rsponse, sometimes it says the garage door is closed. I also have an Ecobee Thermostat and it also frequently shows No Response. The garage door opener works on the Meross app and the thermostat works on the Ecobee app. I don't see any issues with the Wi-Fi either...
I'm still having the same issues with the regular garage remote and the car buttons when there's another person in the car, but the Meross app works when another person is in the car because it's triggering the door via wifi and not the radio signal, but again, the HomeKit app seems un-reliable.
I'm still having the same issues with the regular garage remote and the car buttons when there's another person in the car, but the Meross app works when another person is in the car because it's triggering the door via wifi and not the radio signal, but again, the HomeKit app seems un-reliable.
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I ended up getting the Meross, I installed it and added it to HomeKit and right after that it worked. Then later that day I tried asking Siri to open the garage door, No Response. So now, throughout the day, I look on HomeKit and sometimes it says No Rsponse, sometimes it says the garage door is closed. I also have an Ecobee Thermostat and it also frequently shows No Response. The garage door opener works on the Meross app and the thermostat works on the Ecobee app. I don't see any issues with the Wi-Fi either...
I'm still having the same issues with the regular garage remote and the car buttons when there's another person in the car, but the Meross app works when another person is in the car because it's triggering the door via wifi and not the radio signal, but again, the HomeKit app seems un-reliable.
I'm still having the same issues with the regular garage remote and the car buttons when there's another person in the car, but the Meross app works when another person is in the car because it's triggering the door via wifi and not the radio signal, but again, the HomeKit app seems un-reliable.
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