Neighbor Garage Door Opens Mine

Codes aren t erased and both my remotes can still work.

Neighbor garage door opens mine.

And bingo your remote opens your neighbor s garage door along with your garage door. When your neighbor uses their remote to open or close their door it may cause yours to open too. If this does not fix the situation then you may need to replace the garage door opener or the circuit board to get to a different frequency. Because two different garage doors can accidentally be programmed to the same channel your neighbors may be causing your garage door to open on its own.

Any reasonable competent person. This morning it happened again when my neighbor opens his garage door it opens mine again. Having your garage door open with the remote of your neighbors sounds dangerous since your door can randomly open or close out of nowhere. It may cost more or equal to the price of a new one to put upgrades to alleviate this problem.

Louis all had their garage door openers go haywire since christmas. Electric garage doors make our everyday lives easier. So one working the other is very strange statistically speaking. The security features are codes that work on the 315mhz frequency.

Last shot offer to buy neighbor a shinny new remote with a fresh battery for his opener in exchange for his current remote. Five neighbors on one cul de sac outside of st. Each time you use your remote control it seeds your receiver with new coding for the next operation. While you are waiting for an expert answer i did manage to find a link that will provide you with more information about your problem.

Your neighbor s receiver happens to randomly operate whenever your unit s coding matches your neighbor s much broader coding range. Every garage door opener ever built has means to reprogram it to avoid this issue. Just reprogram your garage door s openers and it should be back to working order. It looks like wireless interference is to blame and the effected families have.

You need to obtain a manual for your opener and for your neighbor s opener. To simplify it your opener may use code 001 out of 1million possible combinations. I hope my link is useful. Same with your neighbor.

If your neighbors garage door remote is opening your garage door the first thing to do is reset the codes using the dip switches or learn button. You probably have a very old opener that uses dip switches a row of tiny numbered switches to set the code. If the new one opens his door and does not also open yours then remove the battery from his get a hammer and take turns smashing the old one offer said neighbor a beer and have one yourself for a job well done.