Garage door opener programming maham

[henene4]

Spent the past 2h reprogramming all our garage openers after trying to add a new one in.

My mum lost one of hers, so we ordered a new one.

Idea is supposed to be that you use a programming connector to connect one of the old remotes to the new one (just a 3 pin jumper thing).
Our ones have 2 buttons for the 2 garage doors, my grandmas are programmed in the reverse order to ours so that the main used button is always the top one.

So I connected my grandmas to the new one, but the new one wouldn't allow me to programm from her bottom button to the top one on the new thing.
Resetting the new one didn't help either.

So I went to the opener motor units and programmed the new one via those.

Turns out that means the motor unit only reacts to the new leared one and you can't programm in other remotes that way.

So I now tried learning the old ones from the new one. Which worked for only 1 of the 2 buttons, but never both.

Took me an hour to find out that you have to reset the button you want to programm, then without pressing anything else, first programm that button before resetting the second button and repeating the programming step.

But those devices are moody: That would only work half of the time either. And if you ever let go of any button on either remote to early while still programming, you had to reprogram BOTH units, meaning I had to go back to the garage, relearn BOTH buttons on the new one and the reprogramm ALL the old ones again.

Would be a ton simpler if that all was manged by the motor unit having one code that the remotes learn from the motor unit and not such a clusterfuck of randomized recodeing that all units use independently.

 

[chachp]

I remember.....

 

For those old folks like me.  I remember when you couldn't program them.  They came from the factory programmed and if your neighbor had the same (happened to us) it has to go back and be reprogrammed.  LOL.

 

Things are supposed to be simpler, or are they???  LOL. This is an example of one of the old ones we had.  Every once in a while I put it in the car and it makes me smile.  My friend Penny and I used to take ours and hers and ride around the neighborhood at night on our bikes to see if we could open any doors.  Oh those memories!!

 

[turquoisedude]

I'll go one better about the older garage door openers....  We moved into a house that had a late-50s model - it was still in good condition but we lived on a flight path to the Montreal International airport in Dorval.  There were a good number of times when a plane triggered that danged door.    We replaced that with a late-70s Sears Craftsman, a TOL at the time, and I remember the transmitter boxes and the receiver on the motor unit had a bank of switches that allowed you to "program" a custom code for your door.  This was billed as a big safety feature to prevent random openings (and believe it or not, there were a few folks who got robbed because someone was able to open the garage door!)

 

[vacerator]

Yes, and Henrik;

We had an old Genie screw drive. The remotes were so old, the plastic was disintigrating. The motor and screw were still working, so I got new remotes with dip switches and matched them to the ones on the new receiver. Am $80 fix that we got another 7 years or so out of.
Upgraded in 2007 to a belt drive 1/2 horse Chamberlain with rolling codes and battery back up.
Henrik, I've never seen remotes like yours. Only ones with two, or three buttons, no led's. There should be instructions on programming the remotes to match the receiver inside the light cover on the motor unit side. There are buttons to do it.