Make Your Own Garage Door Opener Remote

Connect the two wires across the coil of the relay to switch the output.

Make your own garage door opener remote.

Building your own diy gate opener system. A garage door opener openly displayed inside your car can be an incentive to thieves. I m very happy with it. For other models use garadget.

If you re prefer something a bit more sleek and secure make shows you how to build a. Documents from the glove compartment are likely to reveal your home address and with the remote in hand a thief can help him or herself to the contents of your garage and if it s an attached garage secure a concealed location from which to attack one of your house s exterior doors. Mount the relay to your opener or the support structure using zip ties or a bolt and nut. Use a nema 5 15p plug with bare wires or cut the cord off of an defective device and strip the two wires.

Compatible with most major garage door opener in the market. I think there has been some talk somewhere else on here about garage door openers. If you have a spare 12v garage door opener it can be the key chain or the full size. The only disappointment was that my very old stanley garage door opener from approx 1994 could not be recognized by the system and so we could not use the numerous remotes that we already have for the house.

This is very simple and cheap if you have any soldering skill at all. Make your traditional garage door smart. It was super easy diy. If you have an older garage door you probably have a bunch of obnoxious large remotes sitting around.

If you don t have a chamberlain garage door opener and want more functionality than the garage hub provides the 79 wi fi enabled garadget is a good choice. To a very good instruction booklet. Garadget aims a laser at a reflective patch on your garage door to determine if it s open or not.