Universal Garage Door Programming

[cncmastr]

Hi ya'll. This might seem noobish. But I recently just got to use the built-in universal garage door opener in the X5. Since the Home Link is so old, I had to buy a repeater but I had a hard time syncing the two up. I put a video together to highlight what I learned so that you may have an easier time.


https://youtu.be/AlqXZm-UTpY

[semcoinc]

Yeah, I had to use repeaters on my newer Chamberlain garage openers. A PITA but the only way for our older UGDOs to be functional.

Mike

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by cncmastr

Hi ya'll. This might seem noobish. But I recently just got to use the built-in universal garage door opener in the X5. Since the Home Link is so old, I had to buy a repeater but I had a hard time syncing the two up. I put a video together to highlight what I learned so that you may have an easier time.


https://youtu.be/AlqXZm-UTpY

WOW, perfect timing as I've ben looking at this for the last week and deciding whether to use the Liftmaster keypad still, or buy the Homelink Compatability Bridge from Chamberlain...
thanks for the video

[Emory39]

thanks for the information. its well explained

[squidzilla]

Great video. Thanks a lot. This is going to save my loads of time.

[cncmastr]

Glad you guys find these vids useful. I can't believe how long it took me to program this thing. I'm actually pretty bright, but this had me. If I can help someone for next time, it's all good.

[AV8R4AA]

I did mine today.
It didn't work with the handheld opener.
It didn't take with X5 in the garage, but did work when I
moved to the driveway.
I used the learn button on side of overhead garage.

Silly thing.


Ps don't mash the learn button for very long, because it will kill
all the preprogrammed cars.

Yet another First world problem.

[upallnight]

Originally Posted by Clockwork

WOW, perfect timing as I've ben looking at this for the last week and deciding whether to use the Liftmaster keypad still, or buy the Homelink Compatability Bridge from Chamberlain...
thanks for the video

How old is the Chamberlain garage opener that you have? The Chamberlain Liftmaster garage opener that we had installed when we built our house in 1999 synced up with the Homelink remote in the X5 without a bridge.

[Qsilver7]

Originally Posted by upallnight

How old is the Chamberlain garage opener that you have? The Chamberlain Liftmaster garage opener that we had installed when we built our house in 1999 synced up with the Homelink remote in the X5 without a bridge.

I think the technology (radio frequency the GDOs operate on) changed sometime between 2010-2011.

When I had to buy a new GDO a few years ago...when searching as to why the darn UGDO (Homelink) refused to program...it was a lot of 2010/2011 threads that kept rising to the top of the results about programming issues.

Then I started seeing info about the frequency change on some GDOs around that time which lead me to old BMWs requiring the use of a "bridge" (Homelink Repeater) to facilitate the old UGDOs communicating with the updated frequencies the newer GDOs were operating on.




Homelink Repeater hanging from my garage ceiling:

[upallnight]

Originally Posted by Qsilver7

I think the technology (radio frequency the GDOs operate on) changed sometime between 2010-2011.

When I had to buy a new GDO a few years ago...when searching as to why the darn UGDP (Homelink) refused to program...it was a lot of 2010/2011 threads that kept rising to the top of the results about programming issues.

Then I started seeing info about the frequency change on some GDOs around that time which lead me to old BMWs requiring the use of a "bridge" (Homelink Repeater) to facilitate the old UGDOs communicating with the updated frequencies the newer GDOs were operating on.




Homelink Repeater hanging from my garage ceiling:

As always a plethora of info on something as mundane as a GDO.