Change Garage Door Opener Code

Replace the cover on the remote control.

Change garage door opener code.

Take the cover off of the garage door s remote control to expose the switches inside the remote. It is good practice to change your garage door opener code periodically to ensure only authorized people have access to your home. Move the switches inside the remote to change. Next you ll want to make sure your remote is synced up to the new code.

Then press and hold the learn button again until the light goes off. Press and hold the learn button until the led light next to it goes off. When you enter the new code the light attached to the garage door opener will go on and off. Allow approximately five minutes for this task.

Older garage door openers from the 60s had a singular unique code that was shared between the remote and the opener. Change code on garage door openers without a wall mounted keypad remove the cover from the garage door remote control to get to the small switches inside the remote. Repeat to change the code in all additional remotes. This deletes all the programmed codes on your garage door remote openers.

You ll have about 30 seconds or so to enter a new code on your keypad. Make sure it s something you won t forget. The code is now set. Chamberlain makes many garage door opener mechanisms used to open your garage door automatically from inside your car or via a keypad.

Before you reset garage door opener code the latest garage door openers come with a keypad that is mounted on the inner side of the door and a remote that is in the user s possession. Both the equipment require working batteries to operate. Regularly changing your entry code helps keep your home secure. Thieves caught on to that figured out how to intercept the codes and a rash of garage thefts ensued.

In some models you need to hold the lrn button for about 10 seconds to delete all the codes. You should make sure that the batteries in both the keypad as well as the remote aren t dead. Changing code from the garage door opener base unit step 1 on the base unit remove the back panel and press but do not hold the lrn button.