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EDGEMAN
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EDGEMAN
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Does either your car, or your wife's car have a HomeLink System?

If so, then program at least one of your vehicles to use it, and let the other use the remote...lol (That's the cheapest and easiest way to deal with the issue to avoid building a bridge or trying to incorporate it into your home network.) Next easiest step, buy a garage door opener for your specific garage opener. You might have to hit Ebay for one if it's really old.
Posted: 08/11/2025 at 10:09 AM ET
(In response to this post by ElbertoHokie)

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Need the lounge EEs for this one.
ElbertoHokie • 08/11/25 08:54 AM ET
Some pliers and a set of 30-weight ball bearings should do it. **
RoswellGAHokie • 08/11/25 12:41 PM ET
All in all, it's just another button on the wall.**
PhotoHokieNC • 08/11/25 12:11 PM ET
…upgrade to 221**
chumley • 08/11/25 10:27 AM ET
whatever it takes........**
santafe • 08/11/25 10:35 AM ET
I’d recommend…
vthokieq • 08/11/25 09:44 AM ET
I should have added, we have an old garage door and only one of the remote
ElbertoHokie • 08/11/25 09:48 AM ET
?, not a fix. Would you use your phone to open the garage as you're coming
Late 80s Hokie • 08/11/25 09:29 AM ET
When we bought the house, there was only one functioning opener.
ElbertoHokie • 08/11/25 09:48 AM ET
Why not just buy another remote? **
vthokieq • 08/11/25 10:11 AM ET
Yea. He’s making this so much more difficult than he needs to. **
Stork • 08/11/25 11:01 AM ET
Guess he doesn't want the easiest solution...lol**
EDGEMAN • 08/11/25 10:19 AM ET
I did not.**
ElbertoHokie • 08/11/25 03:05 PM ET
Home projects are fun.**
EDGEMAN • 08/11/25 04:02 PM ET
Does either your car, or your wife's car have a HomeLink System? ◄
EDGEMAN • 08/11/25 10:09 AM ET
Or that.
vthokieq • 08/11/25 10:17 AM ET
And if your vehicles don't have a HomeLink system, you can buy a...
EDGEMAN • 08/11/25 10:11 AM ET
All of these solutions are silly.
ElbertoHokie • 08/11/25 10:16 AM ET
Not an EE, but I think all of the the solutions proposed here are easier...
MP4VT2004 • 08/11/25 11:51 AM ET
For sure. I could have bought another remote. But I want to make this
ElbertoHokie • 08/11/25 12:26 PM ET
But by using a phone for the remote, won't you have to, as you pull in,
Late 80s Hokie • 08/11/25 04:30 PM ET
We don't play them this year.**
EDGEMAN • 08/11/25 10:37 AM ET