Programming

[MiniDave]

Anytime we acquire a new vehicle in the household we need to program the garage door openers - most of them use the HomeLink system, but there are variations in each car on programming - sometimes even between years on the same cars like our Audis

Our 2004 Audi required you to push buttons in the correct sequence, then take your opener and squirt it at a specific place in the grill, then more button pushing, then because we have rolling code openers you had to climb up and push a button on the opener, then some more button pushing in the car and hope it worked - or you had to repeat the whole sequence again! The 2014 Audi was completely different and the 2017 and 2018 are different yet again, although those two do use exactly the same procedure.

The 2006 MINI by comparison was dead simple - some button pushing, then get it to talk to the opener by pushing that button and voila! it works!

And of course, because we have two garage doors and two openers and three different cars - there was a LOT of button pushing!

On the newer Audis you do most of it thru the MMI interface. You can even give the openers a name if you want - we don't.....

So today we tackled all three cars and both doors and to our credit - they now all work! Yay!!!   

It's a little easier if you don't have the rolling code doors, but most openers today do use that style and the newer frequency - which is a whole 'nother can of worms!