Genie garage door opener-how do I get more wireless openers? (Home Depot, Lowes)
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I just purchased a home with a Genie garage door opener. The seller lived alone and thus only needed one opener for her vehicle. Between my fiancee and I we have three vehicles we use on a regular basis, and we would like to use the garage as our main access to the house. How difficult/expensive is it to get two additional wireless openers programmed for our unit?
You should be able to get them anyplace that sells Genie openers- I believe HD and/or Lowes have them. Once you buy the remote, there's usually a little button on the opener that you hold down while pointing the remote at the opener and pushing the remote button- that syncs the remote to your opener.
You will have to program the remote to match the other remote control and garage door opener. Easy to do - just take the cover off the new remote and move the small switches inside.
As people said, there are lots of compatible units available at hardware stores. Just make sure you can figure out what type of opener you have. Almost all the new openers (new being in the last 10 years or so) are rolling codes. You program them to the door. The older ones are single coded, so you program them by learninging from another remote or setting dip switches. One type of remote won't work with the other type of opener
Look to see if you have a "program" or "learn" button on the garage door opener itself. It may be hidden under the plastic that covers the light bulb or something. If so, you having the rolling code kind.
I would like to know if it is possible to program this old remote from my other house where I installed a newer model garage door opener:
Model ACSCTG Type 1, FCC ID: B8QACSCT, Code: 40 08 3,
to work the same as this one :
Model ACSCTG Type 1, FCC ID: B8QACSCT, Code: 31 00 3.
There are no dipswitches on the remote circuit board when I removed the cover.
Thanks for your assistance
Stephen G. Johnson
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