[fuz10n]

I can't for the life of me get the built-in garage door opener to learn my remote. I've followed the directions exactly and given it half a dozen tries. The flashing light seems to indicate that it was learned but pushing the button, nothing happens. I'm fairly certain it's not a rolling-code system (any idea how to determine this?).

Any ideas or tricks that got it to work for others?

[ShelJW]

Originally Posted by fuz10n

I can't for the life of me get the built-in garage door opener to learn my remote. I've followed the directions exactly and given it half a dozen tries. The flashing light seems to indicate that it was learned but pushing the button, nothing happens. I'm fairly certain it's not a rolling-code system (any idea how to determine this?).

Any ideas or tricks that got it to work for others?

I was able to simply follow the instructions in the manual, and got mine to work.

It would probably be helpful if you mentioned what type of garage door you own... then, if there are other people on this board with the same type, they can tell you if it works or not.

By the way, once it's linked, it works great! I have openers on other cars which I have to push repeatedly to get my garage door to open. Not so with the M2, one press, even from several doors down before I reach my home, and the garage opens.

[ZPrime]

Any GDO made in the last 20-25 years or so is generally going to be a rolling-code system.

Rolling code started around 1993.

[AndrewC1989]

Originally Posted by fuz10n

Any ideas or tricks that got it to work for others?

I have mine programmed both to a garage door and to my exhaust valves and they all work just fine. I used these instructions:

https://www.overheaddoor.com/homelink

[pal]

It took a few tries with the garage remote in different positions and distances from the mirror to get it done.

[MrKepan]

Need to HOLD a little longer than regular opener to activate.

[McPurrs]

if you cannot program with the remote, try pulling underneath the GDO with your car, and press the learn button on the GDO, then hold the button you want. That should do it too.

[champignon]

Some of the most recently made garage door openers require an additional step, which as I recall is that you need to press the Homelink button you are programming a few additional times after the initial programming. If it is not the Homelink button, then it is the learn button on the opener itself. It's been awhile since I programmed one of these, but it kept hanging up on this step, on multiple cars. The number of additional pushes required depends on the make of your door opener; with the Chamberlains, I think it is 3 presses.

This part of the programming is either omitted or not made clear in a lot of the instructions that are out there. Do a little online searching on Homelink instructions and you will find what I am talking about. Some of the newer openers (as in ones made in the last few years) are quite frustrating to program. It has to do with what I think they call "level 2.0 security" or something similar to that. You will be able to get it to work, it's not a compatibility issue, it is a programming issue.

[eeyang92]

IIRC in the manual it makes it seem like you need to do "one or the other step" in regards to rolling vs. non-rolling - however, for a rolling GDO you need to do *both* steps in order to get it work.

[voyagergab]

Originally Posted by andrewc89

I have mine programmed both to a garage door and to my exhaust valves and they all work just fine. I used these instructions:

https://www.overheaddoor.com/homelink

Exhaust valves?!

[AndrewC1989]

Originally Posted by voyagergab

Exhaust valves?!

Yes sir

https://www.cgprecision.com/#!/2016-...=0&sort=normal

[voyagergab]

Originally Posted by andrewc89

Yes sir

https://www.cgprecision.com/#!/2016-...38;sort=normal

Ah cool. This is for the non MPE valves.

[AndrewC1989]

Originally Posted by voyagergab

Ah cool. This is for the non MPE valves.

It's for any exhaust system that retains stock valve control. I use it with my Remus set up and it works great.

[gtaM2]

Originally Posted by fuz10n

I can't for the life of me get the built-in garage door opener to learn my remote. I've followed the directions exactly and given it half a dozen tries. The flashing light seems to indicate that it was learned but pushing the button, nothing happens. I'm fairly certain it's not a rolling-code system (any idea how to determine this?).

Any ideas or tricks that got it to work for others?

try using a different button, i could not get the first button to work but the other buttons worked for some unknown reason

[Bazgab]

Originally Posted by McPurrs

if you cannot program with the remote, try pulling underneath the GDO with your car, and press the learn button on the GDO, then hold the button you want. That should do it too.

I am going to try that as my garage door remote is really finicky, usually takes like 4-8 presses to actually activate. I have only tried it a few times but up until now I have been unable to program the Homelink button. House was built in 2009 so it should be compatible.

[fuz10n]

Originally Posted by andrewc89

Yes sir

https://www.cgprecision.com/#!/2016-...=0&sort=normal

Is "Open" more open than sport mode, or does it just let you activate sport mode exhaust without the throttle response/steering change?

[AndrewC1989]

Originally Posted by fuz10n

Is "Open" more open than sport mode, or does it just let you activate sport mode exhaust without the throttle response/steering change?

The latter. It force opens the valve(s) and keeps it/them open regardless of driving mode or throttle input etc. Same as any other valve controller. This one's just cool because you can program it into the homelink buttons.

[davidk]

I didn't have much luck with the directions in the manual, and finally went to my GDO manufacturer's website. They usually have Homelink instructions for the model you have. The instructions to make mine work were quite different from the manual. After a lot of frustration, I was able to finally get it to work.

[The Cleaner]

I have a 15 year old Genie and just redid my cars over the weekend because I ran out of devises I could add. Got each car done first try. The trick for me was to hit the learn button on the garage door after the setting up the car. Clear the car and get the light on the mirror flashing fast with the existing garage door opener THEN hit the learn button on the garage door. Garage opening learn light will flash for around 5 seconds and the car is programed. Hope that helps.

[The Cleaner]

One more thing, only the original garage door opening that came with the system was able to code the cars. Those openers even if not programed to open the garage door will still cause the learn light to flash on the garage door, other replacement openers don't do that on my system.

[fuz10n]

Originally Posted by davidk

I didn't have much luck with the directions in the manual, and finally went to my GDO manufacturer's website. They usually have Homelink instructions for the model you have. The instructions to make mine work were quite different from the manual. After a lot of frustration, I was able to finally get it to work.

This did the trick thanks!

[fuz10n]

Originally Posted by The Cleaner

I have a 15 year old Genie and just redid my cars over the weekend because I ran out of devises I could add. Got each car done first try. The trick for me was to hit the learn button on the garage door after the setting up the car. Clear the car and get the light on the mirror flashing fast with the existing garage door opener THEN hit the learn button on the garage door. Garage opening learn light will flash for around 5 seconds and the car is programed. Hope that helps.

This is exactly what I needed to do. Already had my opener half-programmed from before so just had to press learn on the opener itself then press the homelink button a few times.