How to Program Garage Door Buttons on Visor?

[urbana4]

My a4 I just got did not come with a manual, how do I program the garage door buttons on the visor?

Thanks!

[nan07]

see the search button in the top right corner? that's your new best friend. its ok if you use and abuse it

[AudiTFSI3o3]

http://www.audizine.com/search/index....y=0&sa=Search

[Operator]

http://www.audizine.com/search/index....y=0&sa=Search

This and this: http://www.homelink.com/program

[pDubs]

I gave up on programming mine. Supposedly you are suppose to hold down the outside 2 buttons until the LED flashes, then hold down the button that you want to use until it flashes slower. You then have 5 minutes to go to the front bumper under driver's side headlight and hold down your garage door opener aimed at it. Hold it down until your hazards flash a few times. Then supposedly the signal is copied. On some garage door openers you have to put it into "learn mode". I have tried holding down the outside 2 buttons with no result. I have tried just holding down the button I want to use with no result. So I just gave up.

[reggaemylitis]

Homelink sucks balls because there is no way to program your car directly to your garage door opener. If you don't have a clicker, you have to go buy one, program that to your garage door opener, then get the clicker to talk to your car, THEN you can get the car to talk to your opener. Such a suck ass way to do things. But if you have a clicker, it isn't that difficult. The instructions on that Homelink link above should work fine.

[VroomVroom]

FWIW, that first step can take a while - I want to say > 20 seconds on my A4, and even longer on my wife's Lexus ES. The clicker and front bumper action was new to me. It wasn't required on the Lexus or my old GM SUV.


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[JPT]

Homelink sucks balls because there is no way to program your car directly to your garage door opener. If you don't have a clicker, you have to go buy one, program that to your garage door opener, then get the clicker to talk to your car, THEN you can get the car to talk to your opener. Such a suck ass way to do things. But if you have a clicker, it isn't that difficult. The instructions on that Homelink link above should work fine.

How do you suppose your car is suppose to copy the frequency of your opener without it learning the signal first???? EVERY universal opener works the same way...

Homelink works perfectly. I have mine programmed to two different garage openers in different houses. Works flawlessly.


OP, the key is once you have programmed the button, you have to go back to your garage opener and accept the handshake by pressing the learn button again after. This is usually the step people forget. This prevents random people from being able to just copy the frequency and just easily get into your garage. (like in the old days, you use to be able to use your opener in other neighborhoods, and just randomly open peoples garages that used the same frequency)

[AudiTFSI3o3]

How do you suppose your car is suppose to copy the frequency of your opener without it learning the signal first???? EVERY universal opener works the same way...

Homelink works perfectly. I have mine programmed to two different garage openers in different houses. Works flawlessly.


OP, the key is once you have programmed the button, you have to go back to your garage opener and accept the handshake by pressing the learn button again after. This is usually the step people forget. This prevents random people from being able to just copy the frequency and just easily get into your garage. (like in the old days, you use to be able to use your opener in other neighborhoods, and just randomly open peoples garages that used the same frequency)

I agree. I've programmed many cars and they're practically all the same.
1) the car has to first learn the signal of the clicker itself. then once the signal its stored within the homelink
2) you program the signal of your homelink to the opener by "learning" and that's basically it

[naiku]

Homelink works perfectly. I have mine programmed to two different garage openers in different houses. Works flawlessly.

Same, the instructions in the manual are a piece of cake to follow. No problems programming 2 different openers.

[doughboy17]

You need a Homelink garage door opener

[reggaemylitis]

I guess I just don't understand why they can't take the universal remote circuitry and put it in the visor. It can't be that it can't fit in there. A clicker is mostly plastic. I'm sure the internals would fit in a visor. That way you just push the learn button on the back of the opener, hit the button on Homelink, and you're done. How is that so difficult? And I could be remembering incorrectly, but I swear that is all I had to do to program my parent's Avalon. But maybe I needed the clicker and just don't remember. The reason it was a pain in my ass now was because the previous tenants of my place swiped the clicker, so in order to program my car, I had to go buy one just so I could program my Homelink. Seems like someone would come up with a way to make it more simple than the 10 step process we have now.

[JPT]

I guess I just don't understand why they can't take the universal remote circuitry and put it in the visor. It can't be that it can't fit in there. A clicker is mostly plastic. I'm sure the internals would fit in a visor. That way you just push the learn button on the back of the opener, hit the button on Homelink, and you're done. How is that so difficult? And I could be remembering incorrectly, but I swear that is all I had to do to program my parent's Avalon. But maybe I needed the clicker and just don't remember. The reason it was a pain in my ass now was because the previous tenants of my place swiped the clicker, so in order to program my car, I had to go buy one just so I could program my Homelink. Seems like someone would come up with a way to make it more simple than the 10 step process we have now.

The reason it can't be done without the clicker, is that your garage opener never transmit a signal. It only receives. So there is no way for the homelink, or your parents Avalon, to learn the signal without having something that transmits the signal to copy.

[VroomVroom]

The reason it can't be done without the clicker, is that your garage opener never transmit a signal. It only receives. So there is no way for the homelink, or your parents Avalon, to learn the signal without having something that transmits the signal to copy.

Well said. Which made me realize my last post was misleading... On the other vehicle brands, the transmitter is still used for the first (well, second...after clearing the memory) step, but everything is done inside the car, with the transmitter near the homelink module.