Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!apple!bmug!f444.n204.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Ploni.Almoni From: Ploni.Almoni@f444.n204.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ploni Almoni) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Garage Door Openers Message-ID: <274.24BDDA82@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 8 Jul 89 20:24:18 GMT Sender: ufgate@bmug.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:204/444 - MailCom Public USEN, Palo Alto CA Lines: 42 Justin - the DIP switches set in a code for modulating the carrier, and the codes in the transmitter and the receiver MUST match. Genie has had two different systems of setting codes in the past 10-15 years. The first uses strips of punched paper/plastic with sets of holes. They are usually sold in sets of three - one for the receiver and two for two transmitters. From your description, you don't have that type. The other type which you appear to have is the one where you set a series of DIP switches in a pattern. Pull the cover of your receiver - the box with the 12" wire hanging from it. If there is a row of DIP switches, copy down the pattern, and then try it in your transmitter. Since there can be four different ways of "reading" the pattern, you may have to try it four times, unless the switches have LEGIBLE numbers - then you only have to try it twice, since you don't know whether "down" corresponds to "on" or "off". Hope that this can help. By the way, Genie is a particular brand - others may be different -- if you have a different number of switches in the receiver and transmitter -- you know that you have two different models or brands or both. If all else fails, call a garage door company - they have all the right stuff. Good Luck -=Ploni=- -- ------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNet: 1:161/445 UUCP: sun!apple!bmug! INTERNET: bmug!@apple.COM or @bmug.fidonet.org USNAIL: BMUG, 1442A Walnut St. #62, Berkeley, CA 94709-1496 ------------------------------------------------------------- BMUG ARPANET ADDRESSES: Newsletter submissions: pub@bmug.fidonet.org Membership or business: biz@bmug.fidonet.org Information: info@bmug.fidonet.org Help Line Questions: help@bmug.fidonet.org