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Old 10-15-2007, 09:29 PM
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What do you use your homelink for?

What else are you guys using your homelink for besides your garage. I am thinking of getting some remote receivers for some interior home lights or maybe for some exterior home lights- I haven't decided yet.
I know someone that has their sprinkler programmed to use homelink. He turns it on when he leaves for work and it automatically cuts off in 20 min.

Any other ideas?

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Old 10-16-2007, 06:14 AM
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I use my Homelink buttons to remind me that... I need a garage
Old 10-16-2007, 08:14 AM
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garage doors..
Old 10-16-2007, 11:01 AM
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remote control of the home security system
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I'd be happy to get the HomeLink to work on my garage in the first place. lol
Old 10-17-2007, 09:16 PM
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I use it for my neighbor's garage. It drives him crazy when I sit in my garage and make his garage door go up and down and up and down.
Old 10-17-2007, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by dmkozak
I use it for my neighbor's garage. It drives him crazy when I sit in my garage and make his garage door go up and down and up and down.


You rock thats funny.
Old 11-18-2007, 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by dmkozak
I use it for my neighbor's garage. It drives him crazy when I sit in my garage and make his garage door go up and down and up and down.
I'm willing to say this is a joke. I highly doubt you were able to do this unless he gave you access to his remotes and/or the actual unit itself for you to program it.

I think the lights idea would be nice, also maybe have one hooked up to the ac/heater so you can have that starting up while you're going inside.
Old 11-18-2007, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by likwidfuzion
I'd be happy to get the HomeLink to work on my garage in the first place. lol
It's not hard to program it. Takes all of 2 minutes. PM me if you're having trouble and I'll tell you where you're going wrong.

I'd like to get my exterior lights to work with it.
Old 11-22-2007, 10:29 PM
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garage door neighborhood gate and house front gate.
Old 11-23-2007, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ABQG35c
I'm willing to say this is a joke. I highly doubt you were able to do this unless he gave you access to his remotes and/or the actual unit itself for you to program it.

I think the lights idea would be nice, also maybe have one hooked up to the ac/heater so you can have that starting up while you're going inside.
I don't think it'd be hard to visit your neighbor once and program it from the garage opener while he's not looking. Haha that's funny.
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I would think it near impossible now-a-days to pick up someone else's signal because of the new rolling code technology. I believe its been in use since 1996.
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All common garage doors and openers use a fairly standard binary "poke some pins on and some pins off" code, as far as I know. Mine is from 03 and it works like this. If I change both the opener and remote, there is no "sync up" to be performed--it just works.

It's not a stretch to match your opener to someone else's pin configuration and think that it might work on that door. I do know that pranksters (and thieves) use transmitters that just blast every combo for a brute force attack on garage doors.
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Originally Posted by teh slab
All common garage doors and openers use a fairly standard binary "poke some pins on and some pins off" code, as far as I know. Mine is from 03 and it works like this. If I change both the opener and remote, there is no "sync up" to be performed--it just works.

It's not a stretch to match your opener to someone else's pin configuration and think that it might work on that door. I do know that pranksters (and thieves) use transmitters that just blast every combo for a brute force attack on garage doors.
You're a little behind; "rolling code" technology has been around for years (at least as early as '98, judging by the difference in the '97 and '98 Mitsu Homelink transmitters): http://auto.howstuffworks.com/remote-entry2.htm

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^^ It is actually law in Canada all new garagedoor openers need to have them.


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