Garage Door Remote
Roland E. Jones Jr.
I sent this message a few weeks ago and saw no responses.
Did I miss any, or does noone have any ideas?
I just recently picked up a 1984 Lincoln Mark VII as a project. It seems
to have all the bells and whistles. Including a integrated Garage door
opener.
This isn't the type you stick a Stanley in and push the button, it is
integrated.
It has 8 DIP switches and a 3 way selector switch, (supposedly for those
of us with 3 garage doors? )
There MUST be some way I can use this to control my X-10 systems in the
house..
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Roland
Gordon
Roland E. Jones Jr. wrote in message <34C7EFA5...@ix.netcom.com>...
Put a motion sensor in front of your garage set to control whatever modules
you want. When that ol' Lincoln pulls in your whole house can light up! :)
(Hey, what do you want for nothin' ?)
Always glad to help when I can!
Roland E. Jones Jr.
It's all about control isn't it ?? ;-)
Not the whole house....
Besides, No real garage to speak of, or set placeI may park on any given
night..
THERE HAS TO BE A WAY!!
Gordon
Stupid? Lighten up, guy. If you can't offer some constructive help then
keep your mouth shut.
Bill Seurer wrote in message <6al269$1v98$1...@news.rchland.ibm.com>...
>In article <34C9248D...@ix.netcom.com>, "Roland E. Jones Jr."
<Rojo...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>|> It's all about control isn't it ?? ;-)
>|> Not the whole house....
>|> Besides, No real garage to speak of, or set placeI may park on any given
>|> night..
>|> THERE HAS TO BE A WAY!!
>
>Why does there have to be a way? Frankly, I think it is stupid to have
>a remote built in to the car given the huge variety of systems that are
>out there. And what about new systems coming down the line?
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Roland E. Jones Jr.
Thank you!!
I am not looking to reinvent the wheel. Only take advantage (if possible) of the
"technology" existing in a 1984 car.
I had a brief thought on this. There are three settings on the switch, possibly
for 3 garage doors?, maybe not. I seem to remember that a few years ago some
garage door opener manufacturers were also offering the ability to turn on
lights in the house ( porch light, etc.)
I don't remember the manu's. (genie, or stanley maybe?) But if I could find out,
I (possibly) could use the guts in that to close a contact to an X-10 thus
sending a signal to turn on a light. Kind of a klugey way to go but hey, if it
works!! I might also be able to use the guts out of an old garage door opener
itself.
What yall think??
Roland
K. Flanary
Roland E. Jones Jr. wrote:
> Thank you!!
> I am not looking to reinvent the wheel. Only take advantage (if possible) of the
> "technology" existing in a 1984 car.
> I had a brief thought on this. There are three settings on the switch, possibly
> for 3 garage doors?, maybe not. I seem to remember that a few years ago some
> garage door opener manufacturers were also offering the ability to turn on
> lights in the house ( porch light, etc.)
> I don't remember the manu's. (genie, or stanley maybe?) But if I could find out,
> I (possibly) could use the guts in that to close a contact to an X-10 thus
> sending a signal to turn on a light. Kind of a klugey way to go but hey, if it
> works!! I might also be able to use the guts out of an old garage door opener
> itself.
> What yall think??
> Roland
Roland,
Weiser Lock makes something called the "PowerBolt". It's a remotely controlled
deadbolt lock for your front
(gee, or back) door. They say that their remote will also control most garage door
openers. The website is
www.powerbolt.com . I haven't tried it (it's $150.00!!) so I don't know if that
might help......
--
-Kev
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Don Galbraith
The mention of "1984" worries me, but...
Many current autos (my 1997 Nissan Maxima, for example) come with a
"HomeLink" system, built, I believe, by Prince Corp. It is a built-in
transmitter compatible with most current garage-door openers (mine will
control up to 3 units).
I don't have a garage door - or even a garage - so I looked for a way to use
my transmitter to control car-port lights or something. I never did succeed
in getting a response from Prince (I didn't even locate them unambiguously),
but my problem was pretty well solved with a Christmas gift from my son (so
I know little of where it game from): a Stanley "Vehicle Interface Module,"
model 30001. It plugs into an ac outlet, and has an antenna to receive the
signals put out by an unprogrammed HomeLink car system and convert them to
home-automation
X-10 signals. It performs only a single on/off function, although it can be
programmed to respond to codes from two different cars. (Note the difference
from the usual use of the "opener" buttons: instead of programming the car
system to the garage-door opener one happens to have, one programs the
Stanley unit to the default code of one of the car's buttons - the others
can still be programmed to operate a garage-door opener.)
To do anything useful, you also need an X-10 module to control. I use an
X-10 lighting wall-switch module (Radio Shack), which replaces the switch
that controlled my car-port lights. Now I can turn these lights on and off
either from the switch or from the car.
The Stanley module apparently sends X-10 signals using the "unit code" set
on its body AND all higher unit codes, a fact I'll use to control both the
car-port and the front porch light from the car (simultaneously, not
individually), while still
having individual control over the two from inside the house (a timer on
the front porch light, in particular). At the moment the system "sort of"
works, but I'll have to learn a bit more about X-10 devils and imps
(interference, probably) before I'm happy with it.
But was a similar system installed in 1984...?
Roland E. Jones Jr. wrote: