I'm putting in a new garage door opener today and am planning to use my HomeLink buttons. Anyone have any experience good/bad with this?

Also, has anyone installed any other kinds of rf components like lights or gates?

 

I have a three car garage and I use homelink for 2 of the three garages. I would like to use it for all three but it all depends on the type of garage door opener you buy. 2 of the garages (the ones I can use homelink with) are the same system and they both work. The third garage has a different system and the homelink doesn't recognize the signal.

Homelink is easy to set up, very usefull, and it looks so much better than having a big garage door opener hanging off of your visor.

The best thing about homelink which I have experienced is that the range is 100% better than the standard door opener. When I first turn onto my street I can just click it and by the time I'm at my door it's open and I can just ride in!

 

Hmmm? I have foundthe complete opposite. I cant get my garage door to open untill I am in front of my driveway. My old opener worked from down the street. I poseted about this a while ago and quite a few people have also found the range to be kinda bad.

 

The Homelink system in my TSX seems to be the equal of the one in my previous Acura, a '99 CL. The only difference I've noted is that the buttons, along with some of the other controls in the TSX, seem to be somewhat damped compared to the earlier car. In other words, you have to be more deliberate in you actions, and the reaction after pushing the button feels slightly delayed. The CL had more of a "hair-trigger" feel to the controls.... not necessarily better or worse, just different.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Santa Rosa Steve

 

i use mine all the time.
i also programmed a button for my mom's IS300 who lives in FL, (she has it also) i set up the 2nd button for her to open the gate in the gated community where she lives. she thought that was totally awsome.

 

whats the company and model that makes the one that doesnt work with ur homelink? im about to pick up a new garage door opener and need to know which ones to avoid.

thanks

 

I believe the garage door opener (ie..the motor) is a separate item from the receiver, which is what you need to make sure is compatible.

When you buy it, simply ask if the receiver is compatible with homelink.

 

Homelink works like a charm with my garage - range is about 2-3X farther than the POS transmitter they gave us and it's a new house. I agree that you have to be deliberate (ie hold the button down for .5 seconds) but it works great and looks much smoother without a garage door opener up on the visor.

 

I printed the list of compatible openers from http://www.homelink.com/partners/gdo.tml before I went shopping, but when I got to Home Depot, many of the models said "HomeLink compatible" right on the box.

Also, if your opener is not compatible, you can purchase an extra universal receiver (or so it says on the HomeLink site).

 

thanks all!

 

I use my homelink all the time. I have a craftsman opener and it works from about 4 houses away.

 

I've used Homelink in every car I've owned with it available. It's a great feature for the simple fact that I don't have to buy an extra gate or garage door opener remote for my other car. The range seems shorter in my TSX than in my old 2001 CL-S. Nonetheless, it works. I have a Chamberlain Security+ garage door opener. The only trick is that you have to teach the Homelink transmitter the frequency and then you have to teach the garage door opener to listen to the Homelink transmitter. It's a rolling code system, so you have to register a new remote so that it can keep track of the codes.

 

Rotating signal or whatever? There are special instructions for programming them, if that's what it is.

 

i use every day. this system work well .

 

i'm having trouble with my homelink, cause my garage has a rolling feature, meaning i have to fiddle around with the garage opener itself to get the homelink to work. it stinks.

 

I have an opener with a rolling code, too, and I have been unsuccessful programming a HomeLink button. What kind of fiddling do you do?

 

it said on the Tsx manual to train the garage opener or press the training button on the opener itself, i have no clue how to do this, do u?

 

The training button on the opener is usually somewhere inside the main unit. Check this out for a pic: Link

 

I agree with Gpump. My homelink will work from 8 houses down. The remote that came with my unit only works from the end of my driveway. Homelink work well!

 

I know it sounds daunting, but I had to do this and if you just follow the instructions in the manual, it's not as hard as it sounds. It'll only take you a few minutes if you dig in and just follow it.

I find the range to be quite good. My only complaints are that the buttons are hard to find in the dark (I think they should be lit) and I get the feeling you have to hold it down for a second or two before it works (can't just tap it and put your hand back where it was before (that sounds bad)).

 

I think Homelink is really good, better than having a fugly garage door opener in the car. I find the range to be good..but not great. Even though I'm used to it, I don't like that that is almost a 1 second delay before the signal is sent., so i end up holding onto the button for a while before I see the gate/garage open.

 

Yeah, that 1-2 sec delay is annoying. It took me a while b4 I realized that you had to press & hold the button for a few secs. But it's still way better than using a clunky remote.

 

Also-

If you have any X10-controlled items in your home, you can program the Homelink transmitter to turn them on or off. the only problem is that it takes up two buttons (one for on, one for off)

 

Go to the homelink web site www.homelink.com I think, there it will give you the list of manufacturer garage door openers that will work with the system