Hardwiring Garage Door Opener to Car

[BZG Wagon]

How difficult would this be?

I have an old style garage door opener (with the manual code switches on the inside). If I can hopefully find a second hand remote somewhere I was thinking of wiring a new button & led light to one of the spare dash slots, and extending the ariel up the A-Pillar.

Also rewire the power source from a 12v battery, to directly feed from the car - but that's not too important at this stage.

Has anyone tried this before? Thoughts on whether it would work?

[Brawler]

Just tape the remote to the dash

[ch4ng]

Just tape the remote to the dash

+1

[neo]

never done it but it doesn't sound complicated. Only issue will be getting a remote that works with your particular brand of door, and getting a small enough fuse to use( (0.2A or something)

[Malcolm]

all the ones I've seen use a 9V battery, so you'll probably need to put a 12v-9v converter in there for it (pull apart a cigarette lighter adapter that has a 9V output and use that, it's usually cheapest)

[Stott69]

so when you move your leaveing the car behind?

[Akane]

so when you move your leaveing the car behind?

No he's gonna sell the house to the new owner of his car.

[BZG Wagon]

so when you move your leaveing the car behind?

LOL. A remote would be what - $50 to $100? I think I can handle the loss. Or just add it to the list of things to to rip outta the car when I sell it.

Radar, phone/gps mount, handset visor thing, sunglasses clip & giant garage remote = too much clutter around the window and visor.

[BZG Wagon]

all the ones I've seen use a 9V battery, so you'll probably need to put a 12v-9v converter in there for it (pull apart a cigarette lighter adapter that has a 9V output and use that, it's usually cheapest)

Excellent point. I'll prob stick with a batt (last for ages anyway) for now & look into a converter if I get (even more) bored.

[cat007]

It's just going to be a pain having a giant wire trailing from your garage to your car.

[cedwards]

why not buy one of those uniden modules? all ready for 12V auto programming (I think) designed to be activated by a uniden alarm but pretty sure it is just a 12V pulse/ground switch

[loudstealthGT-Four]

It's just going to be a pain having a giant wire trailing from your garage to your car.

at least he wont forget where he lives

[ch4ng]

It's just going to be a pain having a giant wire trailing from your garage to your car.

at least he wont forget where he lives

Isn't that what the bucket of breadcrumbs was for?

[BZG Wagon]

I pulled the remote apart and it was pretty easy to wire a second button to it. Although without a bigger antenna it was fairly rubbish under the dash - I had to be within roughly 5m - 10m of the garage door (which is a pain becuase it takes a few seconds to open, meaning I have to wait). Old door openers suck.

A better solution was to clip the hands free kit next to the steering wheel. a) it's out of sight, b) it's not annoying and in the way on my visor.

[2fas4u]

it also depends how many connecting points it has on a circuit board and find a push button with same number of contact points. unsolder the factory switch and solder the wires to each of those terminals and to their respective points on the switch. Run the arial to where you want it to go, and zip tie the rest of the garage door opener casing somewhere to keep the setup tidy and discreet. if the arial is just a piece of wire you could extend it and run it to near the front windscreen.