Re: Sears Garage door opener + control outdoor lights

["doordoc@xxxxxxxxxxx" <doordoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 3-button garage door opener does not have any learning capability
at all. The opener is homelink compatible which means that a "learning"
home link transmitter (that also will work w/ rolling code) will open
the door once it is programmed into the unit.

However there is a 2-button & a 4-button transmitter that one of the
buttons does have the "learning" capability but they never
automatically come w/ the units.

DoorDoc

rlsusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dave Houston wrote:
> > "Chaotik" <chaotik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a Sears Craftsman garage door opener that came with a 3 button
> >> multi function remote control that is supposed to be Homelink
> >> compatible.
> >> One of the buttons controls the door itself and the other 2 I was
> >> hoping I could program to perform other stuff.
> >>
> >> Mainly, I would like to have one of the other 2 buttons turn the
> >> outdoor lights on and off from my car. They are not lights that I can
> >> plug into an outlet. They are currently controlled by a wall light
> >> switch inside the house. I was hoping I could simply replace that light
> >> switch by one that is wireless enable (315 Mhz is the frequency my
> >> Sears remote operates at).
> >>
> >> I asked the technical support at X10 is their products would allow me
> >> to do that.
> >> I ended up buying 2 parts. 1 WS467 wall switch module and 1 TM751 Mini
> >> Transceiver. Is that even right ? So far, I plugged a lamp into the
> >> mini transceiver and tried to turn it on and off using the Sears remote
> >> with no success. Do I need to do anything for the transceiver to
> >> "learn" the remote ?
> >> Is there a simpler way ?
> >>
> >> Please let me know if you can help me ...
> >
> > The TM751 uses 310MHz and (almost certainly) a different RF protocol than
> > your Sears remote. They will not work together.
> >
> > You may have confused the tech support people if you mentioned Homelink.
> > Built-in Homelink transmitters can learn (both frequency and protocol) but
> > your Sears remote cannot.
>
> Are you sure about that?  I thought that's basically the entire POINT of
> Homelink.  It's a learning RF remote.  If that's not the case, what the
> heck does Homelink do???  The Homelink buttons on my Prius rearview
> mirror do absolutely NOTHING until I train them on the RF remotes I want
> them to emulate.
>
> My answer would have been that you need to
>
> 1) buy or borrow a palmpad RF remote,
> 2) set it and the wall switch to the code you want to use
> 3) make sure you can turn the lights on and off with the palmpad
> 4) train your garage door opener from the palmpad