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Car Forum / Honda Cars / May 2006Garage Door Opener
I just bought a new Accord EX V6 with the built in garage door opener. I know that it probably won't work because I have any older style garage door that does not have the (safety beam) that the new ones do. The opener works fine and I would like to know if anyone knows of some type of interface that I could find that would accept the signal from the car and then be able to trip the switch which makes the Garage door open.  SignatureBob Daun >I just bought a new Accord EX V6 with the built in garage door opener. I >know that it probably won't work because I have any older style garage door >that does not have the (safety beam) that the new ones do. The opener >works fine and I would like to know if anyone knows of some type of >interface that I could find that would accept the signal from the car and >then be able to trip the switch which makes the Garage door open. If it's the older style opened you should have no problem using it as is. Just learn the code into the HomeLink interface as per your Honda owners manual. Where it gets trickier is when you have a code hopping garage door opener, then you have to learn the remote into the car, then sync the car to the opener. I have a Pilot and attempted to set the garage door opener. Found that my controller is a 40 Mhz and will not program. Has to be a higher frequency, forget now what it is but seems it must be >300mhz. There are adapters available, if I remember I went to Homelink.com and followed a link to a dealer that sells them, about $60 +shipping, and if you have a wireless key pad entry you will have to replace it as well, another $45 or so. I decided to put it on hold for a while and change the opener and get one that is compatible with the car. Hope this helps.. >I just bought a new Accord EX V6 with the built in garage door opener. I >know that it probably won't work because I have any older style garage door >that does not have the (safety beam) that the new ones do. The opener >works fine and I would like to know if anyone knows of some type of >interface that I could find that would accept the signal from the car and >then be able to trip the switch which makes the Garage door open. Check Lowes and Home Depot for a little box that wires to your opener. You don't need to change your keypad unless you want to for better security. >I have a Pilot and attempted to set the garage door opener. Found that my >controller is a 40 Mhz and will not program. Has to be a higher frequency, [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>interface that I could find that would accept the signal from the car and >>then be able to trip the switch which makes the Garage door open. >Check Lowes and Home Depot for a little box that wires to your opener. You >don't need to change your keypad unless you want to for better security. Some keypads are similar to car remotes, so they have to be programmed into opener like a car remote. SignatureMike Iglesias Email: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu University of California, Irvine phone: 949-824-6926 Network & Academic Computing Services FAX: 949-824-2069 The extra box available at Lowes supplements the receiver on the door, it doesn't replace it. So the old keypad can send it signal to the opener like it always did. The supplemental receive will receive signals from the Homelink. I was in the same boat. My Wayne Dalton openers did not use the same frequency as the Homelink. They had rolling codes, etc and so does the supplemental receiver which is triggered by the Homelink in the car. >>Check Lowes and Home Depot for a little box that wires to your opener. >>You [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > into > opener like a car remote. I had a similar problem with a Ford Homelink. I didn't think it would work with my 1990 garage door opener. However, I found instructions at Homelink web site. It now works great. I just bought a new Accord EX V6 with the built in garage door opener. I know that it probably won't work because I have any older style garage door that does not have the (safety beam) that the new ones do. The opener works fine and I would like to know if anyone knows of some type of interface that I could find that would accept the signal from the car and then be able to trip the switch which makes the Garage door open. SignatureBob Daun Those instructions work if you have a rolling code model and the car manual is missing the instructions are programming for the rolling codes. It won't help if you have a transmission frequencey problem. >I had a similar problem with a Ford Homelink. I didn't think it would work > with my 1990 garage door opener. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I could find that would accept the signal from the car and then be able to > trip the switch which makes the Garage door open. |
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