| Author | Message | ||
     Jim Stembridge (Jimstem) New Member Username: Jimstem Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2003 |
Okay next task I need some help with. How do I program my homelink button to open my garage door? AGain I hvae no owners manual to help me do this. This is a 1999 Discovery Series II. Thanks! | ||
| John Moore (Jmoore) Senior Member Username: Jmoore Post Number: 477 Registered: 10-2002 |
Try this link: http://www.homelink.com/program/programming.tml Also here is a good website specifically for D2's http://www.disco2.com/ Good Luck, Enjoy your 99 D2, I just got mine last November. -John | ||
| Jack Parker (Jack) Member Username: Jack Post Number: 108 Registered: 03-2002 |
Jim, I can fax you the pages from the owners manual if that would help. Just post a fax number if you need them, can't fax it until sometime tomorrow though. Jack | ||
| Reed Cotton (Reedcotton) New Member Username: Reedcotton Post Number: 37 Registered: 01-2003 |
Jack - Actually the link that John supplied, (to HoeLink) carries the same info as the manual. I know because I reviewed the manual and the web page just last week. Mine works real well for turning the house lights on and off, but I never got it to work on my particular garage door opener. (Probably the rolling code, ansd a lack of willing assistants to hold the security button down) -Reed Cotton | ||
| Jack Parker (Jack) Member Username: Jack Post Number: 109 Registered: 03-2002 |
Reed, I didn't follow the link (too lazy), so thanks for that info! I had trouble getting mine to work with an "Overhead Door" brand of opener that also has a rolling code. I found the problem to be that the position of your remote to the homelink sensor is critical. Mine was touching the homelink unit before it would accept the code, and then it took several tries in a couple of different positions. Jack | ||
| John Moore (Jmoore) Senior Member Username: Jmoore Post Number: 481 Registered: 10-2002 |
Mine too has the rolling code, I eventually got it to work after seveal failed attempts. I had to push a "secret button" on the opener A strange thing I have noticed. I really have to hold the homelink button down for it to work. Is it the same for you guys? Also, I think it's a PITA ass to have to have the key in the ignition for it to work... | ||
| Jack Parker (Jack) Member Username: Jack Post Number: 110 Registered: 03-2002 |
Same thing, my factory opener will work from down the street with just a quick "blip". The homelink requires you to be 5 feet from the door, and hold the button for a several seconds, and it's a PITA regarding the key. Hell, I'm starting to wonder why I even programmed the damn thing! | ||
| Reed Cotton (Reedcotton) Member Username: Reedcotton Post Number: 41 Registered: 01-2003 |
Like I could get my Disco into the garage anyway. It's too tall, and the garage is too full. I have noticed it takes a while of holding it down to turn on the lights, but just figured it was the delay built in with the RF/X-10 interface. The lights will turn off, and on though at almost 150 feet, but I am in the country and there is very little other RF interferance floating around. The other thing with the lights is that it takes two buttons. One for ON and one for OFF. I might be able to complicate it down to one with a Macro onb the X-10 software, but that sounds an awful lot like work and logic. I would like one button for a gate opener though, just for security reasons. I would also like one for the garage door just to not have the black box clipped to the visor. I will try your suggestions for programing the garage door when I get an assistant around again to hold down the "secret" button on the opener. John - I have a Disco I so am not sure if the wireing is the same for a D2, but I tapped mine from the power to the dome light. It doesn't need a key to drain your battery. -Reed | ||
| Michael Noe (Noee) Senior Member Username: Noee Post Number: 482 Registered: 03-2002 |
What kind of X10 RF recvr are you using? I have pull right up to my house, about 20 feet away from the recvr before the thing picks it up. I too am way out in the country, and my X10 remote control pad works from way out, but the trucks transmitter doesn't. I'm using the cheapo IBM-branded remote RF recvr. | ||
| John Lombos (Rover4us) New Member Username: Rover4us Post Number: 21 Registered: 02-2003 |
The Homelink doesn't quite have the range as my garage door opener but its good to about 40 to 50 ft away. I had to open up each unit (door opener) and program it to recognize the Homelink because of the roling code, this was after I programmed the homelink to put out the same signal. It was quite simple but a hassle. | ||
| Reed Cotton (Reedcotton) Member Username: Reedcotton Post Number: 43 Registered: 01-2003 |
Michael- The X-10 RF module I use with the HomeLink is an IBM. Though I havent though about testing different ones, I also have a couple of X-10, and Radio Shack modules that I might test for range. I doubt though that anything will change. they all look like repackaged X-10 modules. I seem to recall (I haven't actually looked at it in years) that the HomeLink transmitter had a short antenna wire on it. It might be something as simple as just how it is stuffed in the roof of the truck. It may be the phase of the moon, but I can always get it to work at about 50-70 feet. A couple of times it worked at the end of the drivway which is almost 300 feet. But usually it doesn't start working until I'm within 100 feet or less. I also have the RF reciever plugged into the closest indoor outlet to the drive on the second story. I think it gets the clearest signal there. -Reed | ||
| Jim Stembridge (Jimstem) New Member Username: Jimstem Post Number: 9 Registered: 02-2003 |
Thanks for all your responses. The homelink site itself told me how to do it. I have an intellicode garage door opener (rolling code) so I had to program the homelink button in the truck to the garage door opener. Just followed the instructions on homelink.com. Then I had to program the garage door itself to accept the "new" garage door opener - the truck's homelink. Worked like a charm. Now it only takes a press of the button in the truck to open it. One note, on my 2002 disco 2, i had to hold the button for a while to get it to open. On this 1999 disco 2, it only takes a quick press to get the door opening. |
