Home link garage opener range?

[gdfein]

How far away can your built in home link controller open your garage? Mine barely works from a car length away. My other GM car is similar? I have a Genie opener. Just curious.


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[BeavOR]

Mine only works if I'm facing the garage about 5 or 6 feet away.

 

[chicagofan00]

Mine seems to be pretty inconsistent. At times I can open it from 10 feet away and at and angle to the garage and other times I've had to be within 1 foot straight on with the garage door in order for it to work.

 

[Demer]

I can open/close mine from about 100'-200' away. Liftmasters.

 

[iamdub]

My door responds as I'm passing my neighbor's house, and there's an empty lot between us. It's approximately 200' in a straight line from where I see the door begin to open. I have a Liftmaster operator. As a former overhead door technician, I will NEVER use a Genie. Regardless of brand, you should get much better range than a few feet in the driveway. I doubt the problem is the built-in transmitter, but it can't be ruled out. There are many factors, some uncontrollable, that affect receiver range. About all you can do is tweak the antenna, such as extending it to outside the garage. If it were me, I'd get a Liftmaster Model #312HM receiver and add it to the current operator and program my Homelink to that. You'd need a Liftmaster transmitter (remote) to program the Homelink if you have a GMT800. The GMT900 has it's own remote thing that's similar to, but not Homelink and doesn't clone an existing remote. The antenna on the 312HM uses a standard coax connector, so you could get a length of coax and move the antenna to outside of the garage. Liftmaster has an extension kit (Model #41A3504) with a purpose-made mount, but you could fab up your own with a double female coax connector if you wanna save the $20-$25. Personally, I'd buy the kit to save the hassle.


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[gdfein]

Thanks for the responses. I have two doors/openers to deal with so may wait for units to go and just learn to deal.


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[iamdub]

As a quick and easy test, strip the insulation off the end of the antenna wire and twis a piece of wire to it. Route the wire over the top of the door and let a few inches hang out in open air. If this improves the range, then you can find a more permanent routing/mounting. Speaker wire would be good because you can split the two wires apart and have a length for the other operator.

 

[gdfein]

I tried this last night with some 14/2 speaker wire. Used one half of a piece 20' long. It actually reduced range on home link from 6-8' to zero. On both my Escalade and Yukon. Weird thing is that the physical genie remote opener works from out at the road 75-80' away with or without the speaker cable. This is clearly something about the trucks that is blocking or shielding the transmission.....or just plain defective. But on two separate trucks built at different times?


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[iamdub]

Ugh. This changes things. Do you have metallic tint across the top of the windshield? Maybe the Genie runs on a frequency that the Homelink can't transmit so well. If you have a willing neighbor, family member or friend with a different oprator brand, you could program one of their remotes to your Homelink and test again

 

[Coolade]

I have the exact same issue with my Overhead Door openers. I am sure the problem lies with the Homelink and not the openers. I have a 2015 2500HD Denali and now a 2016 Tahoe and they both will not work any father than about 10' and facing the garage door.