been trying to program the lexus homelink to my garage door with no luck. Any good directions

 

Do you have Genie or Liftmaster? Liftmaster uses Security 2.0 which is not compatible...ask me how I know. After my Genie garage door motor died I called a company that installed a new Liftmaster...big mistake.

After trying for 10 min the installer told me I needed an additional "homelink compatible bridge" to work with my 2GS. I was like huh? My Genie worked fine before now! Anyway, I ended up purchasing the internet gateway to open my garage door from anywhere from my phone. Do a search for "828LM LiftMaster Internet Gateway" on Amazon.

 

no, been looking in to getting a gateway.

 

Some garage door openers have a button on them that you need to press before you can start to program your buttons in your Lexus. I tried mine since I have 3 Genie garage openers from the late 90's and none of them want to program with my Lexus but my town and country program just fine which is weird.

 

Smart garage door openers went through an upgrade and vehicles with homelink manufactured before the certain date can not operate them. I know 2011 Lexus can't. If your opener is old then clearing your remote sending unit [hold 2 outside buttons for about 20sec till you see rapid flash sequence] before programming it helps.

My steps are:
1 Clear vehicle's home link memory.
2 Teach the vehicle home link from the garage door's remote. [I generally drive about 1/4 mile away from home. You can unplug the garage door opener or set it to vacation mode]
3 Now bring the vehicle in the garage and teach the garage door opener to accept transmitted signal that the vehicle has learnt.

Item 3 procedure can vary from one opener to another opener brand. Pull up the PDF or the manual and follow those steps precisely.

If you do get the bridge ... make sure you follow the instructions exactly as printed. I tried to be cute and tried to do it intuitively and failed.

Salim