Syncing Liftmaster Gate remote
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This largely depends on the model of your garage door opener. If your vehicle has the digital mirror, it will display steps on the mirror to guide you through the steps, after you've cleared the previous programming. The owner manual has pretty good instructions, too. For some openers with rolling codes, you may have to get up on a ladder and press the "Learn" button one time.
We have two garage doors and a driveway gate at home circa 2014. Having unsuccessfully tried to program a universal learning remote fob to these (in hopes of having a second fob) I didn’t have high hopes that Homelink on the Land Cruiser was going to work from our existing Liftmaster remote fob without accessing the buttons on each opener to enter programming mode. I couldn’t find anything on our gate that would put it into programming mode and thought I would be TSOL with the gate.
Happily, I found programming the Toyota Homelink buttons worked on the first try when following the directions. I was surprised. It is highly possible the universal learning remote fob I picked up on Amazon was simply junk. Now I have been curious if programming the universal learning remote might work to clone signals from the Toyota Homelink buttons
Happily, I found programming the Toyota Homelink buttons worked on the first try when following the directions. I was surprised. It is highly possible the universal learning remote fob I picked up on Amazon was simply junk. Now I have been curious if programming the universal learning remote might work to clone signals from the Toyota Homelink buttons
The cars home link is backwards compatible. I had no issues programming our very old gate tech.
I have a very early home link setup I got off eBay and installed in my 40 series and had to buy a 115VAC homelink extender for it to be able work with the latest gen garage door openers, for that early version of homelink buttons it converts and forwards the signal. You shouldn’t need this as the in vehicle buttons are backwards compatible, could be a remote problem. Sometimes you need to clear the homelink first and start with programming the one that is giving you issues first and once working program the others.
I have a very early home link setup I got off eBay and installed in my 40 series and had to buy a 115VAC homelink extender for it to be able work with the latest gen garage door openers, for that early version of homelink buttons it converts and forwards the signal. You shouldn’t need this as the in vehicle buttons are backwards compatible, could be a remote problem. Sometimes you need to clear the homelink first and start with programming the one that is giving you issues first and once working program the others.
We have a liftmaster driveway gate opener as well and I was able to get it programmed no problem. It’s a different process than a garage opener. You can’t use the remote to help program it. You have to open the liftmaster box and use the “learn” button and then follow the car programming instructions from there. I always forget how to do it exactly and then have to play around with it for 15 minutes or so when reprogramming a new vehicle or a new remote.
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Thanks, I did all that. It is actually a gate opener, but i don’t think that matters. I will open the gate control box and look for the learn button
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That’s encouraging!
I could not get my lift master to work. Not with the learn buttons in the box and not with the generic clickers.
Only One thing did work. An OEM clicker. That is a lift master branded clicker.
I got the lift master brand clicker from Amazon. Trained the clicker with the learn button as the clicker comes with explicit instructions . And then trained the LC Homelink with the clicker in seconds.
I got my old 4runner to work with the learn button on the lift master box but not the LC.
most of the advice here is the same bullshit I heard taking me down a 6 week rabbit hole. None of it worked except this:
Only One thing did work. An OEM clicker. That is a lift master branded clicker.
I got the lift master brand clicker from Amazon. Trained the clicker with the learn button as the clicker comes with explicit instructions . And then trained the LC Homelink with the clicker in seconds.
I got my old 4runner to work with the learn button on the lift master box but not the LC.
most of the advice here is the same bullshit I heard taking me down a 6 week rabbit hole. None of it worked except this:
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Thankfully, that is what I used to set up my Homelink button for our gate- at least a Liftmaster three button fob version...and it worked
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This maybe the answer I am looking for, thanks!
