Signal Interference With Garage Door Opener

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Signal interference with garage door opener.

The location of the garage door openers signal may be blocked by some of the other devices in your home running on the same frequency. For instance the liftmaster 888lm offers the ability to monitor and control your garage door right from your smartphone including the opener lights and more. A cordless or cellular phone an am of fm radio or any electrical equipment that uses a radio signal to operate. Aside from household appliance being housed near a cell phone tower or airports can also cause interference to your garage door opener.

Radio frequency interference with garage door openers can be avoided. Sometimes the garage door opener antenna could be struggling to receive your signals perhaps because it is bent or misshapen. If this is the case a new control panel may be your best bet. First you have to identify what is causing the interference.

Unfortunately if the control panel for your garage door opener is older it may be more prone to radio frequency interference. The genie girud 1t universal conversion kit was made to fix this issue. Interference can be caused by any unwanted radio signal. Try straightening the antenna wire and then testing your garage door opener remotes to see if that fixes the issue.

One way is trial and error or simply moving suspect devices or turning them off one by one. On most of the newer garage door openers there is a little led light next to the learn button on the back of the opener.