[ale] OT - Replacement Gate Remote

[Brian Mathis]

Is it actually a remote or an RFID card?

Something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Garage-Learning-cloning-Key-chain/dp/B009YB26OY

Google search
    https://www.google.com/search?q=learning+garage+door+remote


❧ Brian Mathis
@orev


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

>  Last night I looked all over the internet but kept coming up with what I
> do NOT want:
>
> What I do NOT want is a garage/gate remote that requires me to know the
> brand of opener in use.   I found many hits for those talking about dip
> switches to set on the remote or pressing a button on the opener itself
> that the remote learns from.
>
>
>
> What I DO want is something similar to what many cars have including one I
> used to own which is something I can simply point an existing remote at
> (while pressing buttons of course) and have it learn the code from the
> existing remote.   Ideally this would be a key fob style device but I’d
> settle for one that clips to a car’s visor.
>
>
>
> I even found a video on Youtube describing how to use a key fob exactly
> like what I wanted but unfortunately that person didn’t bother to say what
> brand or device he was using.
>
>
>
> There is so much advertising and discussion about the kind I don’t want
> that I simply couldn’t find what I do want so I was hoping someone here
> might have already found one and share details with me.   Note that Garage
> doors and Gates usually use the same kind of technology.
>
>
>
> I understand that SOME gates/garage door openers have variable codes but I
> doubt the one I’m doing does so no need to discuss that.
>
>
>
> I do NOT know the model of gate opener nor would it be easy for me to find
> out.  It’s the gate for my HOA and they make money selling replacements
> which my neighbor wants to avoid.   Given what I used to have in my car
> this seems simple but my searches last night were fruitless.
>
>
>
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