I haven't heard of homelink failing, but I suppose anything is possible. There are so many microprocessors on these new cars driving various aspects of the electronics that anything could theoretically fail. Intermittent problems are always the most challenging to chase.

 

There is a gate for our housing development where we live.

How do I program a remote to open the gate?

Easy to do for garage doors, but no so for a remote gate.

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I got mine to work…I can’t remember how exactly but I think I posted on this thread how I did it, way back in ‘21 or ‘22…

edit: found my post!


[img]images/icons/icon1.gif[/img] Got Homelink to work with community gate2021 RX…the garage opener was easy but the gate to the community was a challenge. The community was built around 2005 or so, I will assume the gates are from that period, but I have no idea if they are rolling code or not. Anyhow, after trying several things posted on the internet, here’s what finally worked. One critical point is that the gate fob only transmits for a few seconds, on mine I could see the red light come on when I pressed the fob and then two or three seconds later it stops transmitting. Ok, so first I got a fresh battery for the gate fob, supposedly they are not very powerful and a weak battery might not get picked up by Homelink. With the new battery, then I held the (unprogrammed) button on Homelink and kept it held down while I hit the button on the gate fob with the fob pointed a few inches from the rear view mirror. Keeping the Homelink button still pressed the whole time I waited until the fob stopped transmitting (its red led went out) and pressed the fob again. And then waited a few seconds and pressed it again, and again, and again, and again, maybe a dozen or fifteen or twenty times, keeping the Homelink button pressed nonstop the whole time. Suddenly the Homelink indicator went from orange to green. I let off the Homelink button and drove to the gate…it worked. I was King of the World!