Remotely Possible

A neighbor has had problems with his garage door opener. The tech tried a new universal remote but it still doesn’t work. The inside door bell button does work to open and close the door, so that means that his control board is likely bad.They are not that cheap and depending upon when it was installed, a replacement may be difficult to find or very expensive.

So my solution for him is about $15 worth of technology in a box smaller than a ring box. I bought a remote controller from Wish.Com. It has a key fob for the car. It uses 12 volts (I used a small power adapter I had lying around. The unit is a learning type so I married it to the unit. It has 4 buttons, two large and two small, and I configured both large to do the same. When pushed, they close a normally open relay, the wires from those contacts go across the wall button contacts. So when you push the remote button it is the same as pushing the wall button in the garage.

The unit will mount near the garage door unit and the remote works about 150 feet away.

So this $15 solution saved perhaps hundreds of dollars.