Make Your Own Garage Door Remote

If you have an older garage door you probably have a bunch of obnoxious large remotes sitting around.

Make your own garage door remote.

Documents from the glove compartment are likely to reveal your home address and with the remote in hand a thief can help him or herself to the contents of your garage and if it s an attached garage secure a concealed location from which to attack one of your house s exterior doors. Your current garage door opener might work perfectly fine and if so you probably don t want to replace it. The terminals on the relay will normally be marked c and no for common and normally open. This instructable will show you how to build a remote controlled door lock out of any number of 110v solenoids solid steel dowel some various odds and ends and an x10 remote appliance control.

A garage door opener openly displayed inside your car can be an incentive to thieves. Now simply connect two wires from the two legs of the switch on the relay to the input terminals on your garage door opener that control the opener. How to make your existing opener smart. You press hold and release the buttons in the pattern specified in the instructions and the.

Usually you will already have wires connected here from the garage door switch mounted by your door. If you re prefer something a bit more sleek and secure make shows you how to build a. If you purchase the remote for your particular brand of garage door programming is usually simple. The main downside to the ryobi garage door opener is its lack of amazon and google integration.