Universal Garage Remote
 

Does anyone know where to get a Universal garage remote? Basically I have 2 houses with diffrent brand garage remotes. Instead of having 2 remotes is there a universal garage remote that takes all brands of garage openers?

I bought one from Canadian Tire. It goes on my keychain as I've had clickers stolen from my car before (about the size of a cell battery, not tiny but better than putting a normal one in my pocket). I think they also sell the standard ones that go on the visor in the car as well.

This is the one I bought (in black)
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows....jsp?locale=en

I just got one at walmart. make sure the remote will work with both brands.

I paid 40 for mine.

i know rona has them too also sure home depot has them since they both carry garage door stuff

Speaking of garage doors, has anyone had problems lately with their garage door remotes? I've started to have problems with mine (last two or three weeks). I use the Homelink button that is built into the overhead console of my Honda to open the garage doors. The actual remote doesn't work either. However, in the morning they both work. When I get home later in the afternoon, they stop working. I turn the power off to the garage door openers at night for extra security. Can it be this heat? Batteries on the remote have been checked.

How's that for hijacking a thread. It's just not worth starting a new thread for........... RS to the rescue?


Oh, the garage door opener is a POS Chamberlain Liftmaster that came with the house.

WTF? Double post..........

Lift masters are loud as fuck and clunky

Loud they are, but I had no choice. I guess it's time to replace both. I can't sneak out of the house in the middle of the night when the fricken garage door opener wakes up all the neighbors in a two block radius.

^ LOL time to get the garage doors with belts instead of chains they are pretty quiet

Thanks to this thread, I picked up a chamberlain clicker remote, no more doing indiana jones when I'm closing the garage door LOL
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Whered you get it and how much?

Pretty expensive, 43.99 before taxes at rona.

Check online for cheaper prices.
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I have one... just as a sidenote/warning, you CANNOT PROGRAM YOUR HOMELINK SYSTEMS WITH THESE

Homelink with which one?

I bought an overhead console off of an Odyssey (auto wrecker) and the homelink part was easy to programme. I programmed the Homelink to control both garage doors. My other vehicle that came with a homelink built into the overhead console worked, as well.



Edit: I think I know what you are saying. The new remote control will not sync the garage door opener with the Homelink. Am I right? The step by step instructions for programming the homelink requires the remote of the garage door opener to be set first.

I think the point Captain Picard is trying to make is that these universal remotes work by "memorizing" the code that your garage door opener transmits.

The problem is that many recent garage door openers have an extra security feature that changes the code every time it is opened with the remote. Thus, your universal remote/homelink system won't work because it's not OEM.

Homelink can sync with rolling code systems. My Chamberlain garage door opener has rolling code feature. My previous house had a Stanley opener and a Craftsman. Both had rolling codes and the Homelink on my car worked on those, as well.

Yep same here. 3 Cars with homelink all work with the rolling code

no... You can't program a homelink using a skylink remote control... At least that's what their rep told me when i e-mailed them. (non rolling code chamberlain)
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Oooh that's news to me then. I should try programming my garage door opener with my Homelink system again...

off-topic but related... does anybody have a NON ROLLING Chamberlain remote control they can lend me to program my homelink? (again, skyline universal remote cannot be used to program homelink on me TL)

Which is what I was trying to say all along in various ways.

In order for a Homelink to work with a rolling code or any garage door opener, for that matter, you need the hand held remote that came with your garage door opener.

Here's a step by step for programming the Homelink from a car. I know it works on all Honda/Acura cars. Not sure about any other manufacturer. I got this from the Internet years ago. Don't know who to credit. Anyway.....

I have a rolling code one, but that won't help you. Now, I would never do this, but you can always go buy a non-rolling one, use it to program the Homelink and return it.

I have different range for both my penthouse, and my parent's place. The reason I can think of for my parent's place is that the transmission is just simply not as good during the night when we all have our TV's on, or some fag on the plateau is trasmitting powerfully close to that frequency.

I heard of people in E.Van who have those bus lines go near their house that's EMI as well.

For my penthouse, it actually works better at night, then again, so do most transmitting devices no? Something about the Sun and the light making for a SLIGHT bit of difference with transmission of signals.

i dunno, it's monday to me, im all cracked out coz it's early *yawn*

on an extension I would like to ask about those homelink systems that come standard on some cars.....

Recently I broke the garage door opener and replaced it with a Craftsman unit. On the box it says it'd be "compatible with all home-link systems" but when I program my car's home-link to it the rolling code makes it impossible to open it the 2nd time around....

Maybe there are some ways to work around it?

Did you follow the steps outlined in 89blkcivic's post above? For openers that have the rolling code, it makes sense that there's an extra step.

1) First the Homelink system learns the remote's signal.
2) Then the garage opener learns the Homelink signal.