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2019 CX-5 GT with Homelink. Craftsman Garage Door opener (probably about 15 years old I'm guessing with battery backup - although the battery backup still works so maybe it's a newer model that was installed by previous owner?)
Anyway, I read the manual, watched the videos and can't get it to work.
First, I'm not sure why some instructions say to park the car outside except from possibly something the lawyers came up with in case someone was so stupid they didn't realize the door might be activated when following this procedure and accidentlly hurt someone or something with the door coming down?
1) Hold button 1 and 3 until rapid blink to clear codes
2) Hold transmitter button 2 inches away and hold button 1, wait for change to rapid blink
3) Press homelink button twice (door doesn't open as expected as I have a rolling code opener)
4) Press learn button (bottom purple button on door opener in garage) - yellow light on opener comes on.
5) Within 30 seconds, press the homelink button for 2 seconds and release and repeat one more time
My garage opener light flashed after the first 2 seconds, then nothing happens and the Homelink button won't open it holding it a third, or even fourth time.
So I found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSe_Yhez-ro ) which says to press the Homelink button 3 times and not hold it very long. That doesn't work either.
So I figure maybe step 5 in the video is incorrect
Step 5 nothing happens but if instead I hold the Homelink button, after 2-3 seconds the light on my garage opener flashes. And then I press the Homelink button 3 times after that and nothing happens. Holding the Homelink button after that, nothing happens, just blinks rapid.
I know there is a "bridge" unit you can buy necessary for some openers. However, it seems to me, if the Homelink button causes the opener to flash the light, then it IS communicating and I would think the "bridge" wouldn't be necessary. But I can't get it to work!
I've tried almost every permutation I can think of, including skippng step 3, only pressing and holding once on step 3. One time, the garage opener blinked a second time on my second or third press and hold when in learning mode but still, didn't work in the end.
At the end of my rope on this. If a bridge isn't required my only guess now is that because I can't fully disconnect power from the receiver when I initially program the button, due to battery backup, maybe that's the 'rolling code' feature thinking the Homelink is a foreig transmitter. But I doubt that as the "Learn" button should make all that not relevant and effectively temporarily disable the security aspect of the folling code thing while it learns the Homelink button?
Anyway, I read the manual, watched the videos and can't get it to work.
First, I'm not sure why some instructions say to park the car outside except from possibly something the lawyers came up with in case someone was so stupid they didn't realize the door might be activated when following this procedure and accidentlly hurt someone or something with the door coming down?
1) Hold button 1 and 3 until rapid blink to clear codes
2) Hold transmitter button 2 inches away and hold button 1, wait for change to rapid blink
3) Press homelink button twice (door doesn't open as expected as I have a rolling code opener)
4) Press learn button (bottom purple button on door opener in garage) - yellow light on opener comes on.
5) Within 30 seconds, press the homelink button for 2 seconds and release and repeat one more time
My garage opener light flashed after the first 2 seconds, then nothing happens and the Homelink button won't open it holding it a third, or even fourth time.
So I found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSe_Yhez-ro ) which says to press the Homelink button 3 times and not hold it very long. That doesn't work either.
So I figure maybe step 5 in the video is incorrect
Step 5 nothing happens but if instead I hold the Homelink button, after 2-3 seconds the light on my garage opener flashes. And then I press the Homelink button 3 times after that and nothing happens. Holding the Homelink button after that, nothing happens, just blinks rapid.
I know there is a "bridge" unit you can buy necessary for some openers. However, it seems to me, if the Homelink button causes the opener to flash the light, then it IS communicating and I would think the "bridge" wouldn't be necessary. But I can't get it to work!
I've tried almost every permutation I can think of, including skippng step 3, only pressing and holding once on step 3. One time, the garage opener blinked a second time on my second or third press and hold when in learning mode but still, didn't work in the end.
At the end of my rope on this. If a bridge isn't required my only guess now is that because I can't fully disconnect power from the receiver when I initially program the button, due to battery backup, maybe that's the 'rolling code' feature thinking the Homelink is a foreig transmitter. But I doubt that as the "Learn" button should make all that not relevant and effectively temporarily disable the security aspect of the folling code thing while it learns the Homelink button?