Control garage lights with door opener?

["Eric" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone ever come up with a good way to link overhead lights in a garage to a garage door opener?

I'm getting tired of replacing bulbs in my (cheesy, vibrating a lot) door openers, when there are perfectly good lights
already built-in to the garage.

Has anyone ever come up with a clean way to control the garage lights off a GDO?

One solution that AFAIK doesn't exist (or am I wrong?) would be a wireless X-10 transmitter that would plug into a light
socket.  Sending the "off" command could be a little tricky, but it could use charge stored in a cap or something.

Eric Law