l008com

I don't have a garage. Has anyone done anything interesting with their garage door opener buttons? Just wondering.

Omicron

You can buy Homelink light control modules... I haven't, but I've seen them where garage door openers are sold.

EatMyBanana

Homelink light controls? Have not heard of this,interesting! i will have to check it out. Anyone here purchased this acc.?

truemagellen

you don't have to get the expensive homelinke light controls...just go to Target/Menards/Homedepot... get a cheap remote lighting kit (a remote plus a plug that goes into the wall while the 2/3 prong of the device is inserted into it)

Then program the homelink with the remote and voila. It may not work on all models but if it doesn't return it to the store and try another.

j1mb0x99

At my new Apt complex there is gated entrances. They are switching to a new system soon where you have a small, garage door opener like module to open the gate. I am wondering if I can program the homelink to do this for me. It would be nice to get some use out of it. Think it will work?

-JiM

truemagellen

give it a try j1mb0x99...if you go to homelink's website it lists compatible systems but there are many more than listed

http://www.homelink.com/home/home.tml

Kel Rx8

thanks for the link true magellen

tokenbrit

Just in-case you wasn't aware. Remote garage door openers also behave as effective laser speed-trap jammers. :D :D
Here in the U.K., you can buy a LRC100 which is a mobile laser speed trap jammer but it is marketed as a remote garage door opener...

l008com

Is this true? Can I get a second opinion? That doesn't make any sense though, since laser is light and door openers operate on radio frequencies.

tokenbrit

Sure.

Check it out here :
www.radardetectors.co.uk/target_lrc100.htm

You can also couple it with a fixed camera locator like this : (but I'm not sure how usefull this is for U.S. people [although I am sure you have something similiar ]).
www.radardetectors.co.uk/deals.htm

:D

l008com

That product is not a standard garage door opener, thats a specific laser jammer that they call a door opener. Homelink does not do that!@! I ought to see if I can get any interesting X10 things.

tokenbrit

That doesn't mean it can't be used as a garage door opener does it?... Although I AM SURE that most people WONT use it that way... :p

l008com

OK but that doesn't help me find a use for the ones built into the rear view mirror

scubacap

The only effective defense against LIDAR is a multi-angled mirror unit, or a high intensity light transponder "tuned" to the same IR signal of the unit AND it MUST be timed properly. LIDAR (it simple terms - Laser RADAR) work on light, not radio waves.
Since light travels at 180 Million Miles per second. Timing is rather difficult.

tokenbrit

O.K. If that's what you want to believe...
I'm not going to argue about something that has been proven to work.

scubacap

That's what I say about the "garage door opener" theory.
I worked with Doppler RADAR since 1985 and LIDAR since 1996.
If such a cheap garage door opener could be used to jam LIDAR don't you think we would have used it on our helicopters by now? The "disco ball" behind the engines is archaic, marginally effective, but the best thing right now to disrupt the LIDAR on the newest generations of missiles.
The "garage door" theory goes back to the '70s when the rumor was to hand chains from your bumper to confuse police RADAR. Didn't work.
Remember - any company can make a claim, but do they need to back it up?
Don't know about the laws in the UK, but I understand Elvis is on tour over there.

scubacap

The claim of the distributor could (maybe) work, BUT the return beam would have to be pointed DIRECTLY at the transmitting LIDAR unit. Narrow beam out - narrow beam in. The receiving cone on the LIDAR is very tight to filter out distortion. After all, there is light every where. And since light is energy is possible to "code" the signal IE: FM Radio.
Also, remember time. Light travels at 180 Million miles per second. Of course this is in ideal conditions. Electricity travels at the same speed. However, when it meets resistance it slows down. Air has less resistance than wires and circuitry. So my money is on the $5,000 LIDAR Gun Vs. the $200 "Jammer".

If you get one and can prove it works that would be fantastic!

tokenbrit

Go away; silly little man. :p
Why are you so determined to discredit something which has been proven to work. Have you ever thought that military stuff doesn't work the same as civilian stuff? (even if it has ANY relevance here).
Why can't people like you add some positive comments instead of being so negative??
My understanding of the U.K. (and probably U.S. laser speed trap guns) is that they send out a series of light pulses at the car, and the time for these to be reflected back (off a non-opaque part of the car) determines the speed the car is travelling. If the returning pattern is disrupted by another source (at the car), then the pattern cannot be recognised, and the speed of the car cannot be determined.
BUT, basically it works, and I don't really care how. :p I don't want to get into an argument with "a know it all" who basically doesn't. :o
(And it has been tested by U.K. police. - Much to their dismay. :D )

l008com

Ha ha yeah who need science when you've got slogans!
Anyway, I hear they need a flat surface to bounce laser off of, and those license plate covers that reflect it work. Though I also saw a test done, and the best thing you can do is have a car with no flat front end. The couldn't get a laser reading off of a stock Corvette with no front place, and plate hole cover on. Now if you have a pickup truck, your out of luck. But in my area, they only use K/Ka anyway. But none of this helps me find any use for my door openers. Does X10 make anything? Like light turn-on-ers?

MazdaManiac

iTrader: (3)

Uh, 186,282 miles per second. "180 Million Miles per second" would be problematic where Einstein is regarded.:D

Doctorr

:D How can you have an internet connection yet still not know about X-10?

Couple of years ago, questions were asked in Congress about how to stop them sending ads to every living human being! They were the #1 spammer when email was just getting popular.

Nasty, pop-up filled web site for X-10 stuff.......

Seriously, X-10 equipment operates with a signal sent around your house on the power lines, and you can plug in a radio receiver to make it truly 'remote', then from anywhere within range, your 'Homelink' can start any appliance, turn on lights, start your VCR, music - whatever. I have three different systems at my house, all remote.
(They also specialize in remote video cameras, for those who have been 'egged' lately!)
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arattle

Well, if you want to be exact it's 3.0x10^8 m/s, which is 300km/s, which is 186 miles/second. It's not *that* fast (although still plenty fast enough).

-arattle

scubacap

Yes arattle you are correct, MazdaManic is also correct. The 180 mmps is for laymen, hobbits and naive little boys who can not comprehend such large numbers.
The theory that the UK gizmo works is based on old first generation LIDAR (or has the silly boy from across the pond calls them "laser speed trap gun") Same thing with the return from the Corvette. When LIDAR units were the size of a small suit case the had problems. They are now on their fourth generation - Smaller and more accurate.

Remember the Hubble? Didn't work properly because the testing equipment wasn't properly calibrated. Bad info in, bad info out.

Everyone remember to read everything in these posts. I said, "If you get one and can prove it works fantastic!" So if anyone has such faith in the claim (from someone trying to sell something) of jamming LIDAR please go out and buy one and speed away. I will be more than happy to buy your 8 at the police impound auction

scubacap

arattle,
What happened to the mirror?

tokenbrit

Bite my Hairy *** Scubucap. :D You still haven't disprooved anything that I have said.
I would suggest that you go and consult your jnr mechanic/technician/teaboy textbooks that you love so much. :D :p
Just because you can quote the speed of light from a textbook, it doesn't mean your clever. To me, it indicates the exact opposite. :p i.e.: - your trying to bulls**t us. :D
How about disproving things that I have said instead of continuing to make yourself look a fool.

BTW
I don't think he's over here; but have you tried looking up your own ****. :p (note the spelling :D ).