Saturday, August 24, 2024

Genie Leaves Critical Homelink Programming Step Out of Manual

 I installed a new Genie 7055D garage door opener so I needed to reprogram the opener buttons in my cars. The cars hav Homelink that allows you to sync up garage door opener (s). The process involves clearing any other previously programmed garage openers and then programming the buttons to the new opener (the entire complete procedure is linked below) The vehicle manual and garage door opener manuals both have instructions for this; the problem is the Genie manual is missing a necessary step. Basically it uses a Genie remote already programmed to the garage door opener to program the button in your car. Then there is a  second step where you have to put the opener itself in train or learn mode, to program in the rolling code encryption but the Genie manual completely leaves this necessary part out ( I noticed this part of the manual shows in italics, "abbreviated "). Not only that it doesn't explain that the opener's "program mode", used for programming the Genie remotes and setting the travel limits, is also the "train/learn" mode for the second step of the Homelink programming procedure explained in the vehicle manual (in older Genie models there is a designated "train" or "learn" button). Anyway after several web searches and numerous people complaining about the issue, I found the solution, but it never ceases to be amazed at how poor the documentation in manuals can be.

Lowe's has this PDF manual posted on the Internet that explains this in detail in the programming section Genie Homelink Programming

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