This seems to happen every week or two.
Garage door remote frequency interference.
Turning your antenna in the opposite direction of high frequency signals can divert unwanted interference from disturbing the frequency of your garage door opener which in turn can improve its operating ability.
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Like we said in the end it took a few weeks and multiple experts to identify the true source.
Garage door openers operate by using radio waves similar to how a remote controlled car works.
However in some cases.
Although your garage door opener is designed to listen out for the noise coming from your garage door remote control it can accidentally listen to noise coming from a different device instead leading to interference and unpredictable behaviours when your devices suddenly don t want to co operate.
It s a good thing we can only hear a limited range of audio frequencies 20hz to 20 000hz because if we did hear everything in the radio frequency range it would drive us crazy.
I tested two remotes for this garage door and two other remotes for two other garage doors.
If this is the case a new control panel may be your best bet.
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After that the garage door remotes start functioning normally again.
Unfortunately if the control panel for your garage door opener is older it may be more prone to radio frequency interference.
Garage door opener remotes work on radio frequency waves typically from ranges of 300mhz to 390mhz.
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For instance the liftmaster 888lm offers the ability to monitor and control your garage door right from your smartphone including the opener lights and.
Control circuits inside the bulb operate this scheduled flash and rely on a frequency between 30 and 300 megahertz mhz.
Now there s no denying that everyone equally agreed that what or who was behind the interference was the same frequency that many garage door openers and car fobs use.
The interference seems to last for an hour or two.
Locating and adjusting the antenna inside of your garage can change the frequency on your garage door remote.