I got my second lucky break in this long exercise in frustration when I found that I could reach the learn button from the driver's seat through my sun roof by using a long stick. That gave me the hope to make a lot of additional attempts to see if I could exceed that near miss. One random time, though, the garage door opener almost triggered (the motor started, but then stopped before opening the door). In contrast, when I attempted to sync a Homelink button, I observed that the solid "learn" light would immediately go to continuous fast flashing mode while I held the Homelink button that I was trying to program. When I reprogrammed my working remote, I observed that the opener has a light that comes on solid when I pushed the "learn" button, and that light would briefly go out then flash once or twice when I successfully resynced my old garage door remote. This is why so many subsequent posters sadly reply that the supposed fix didn't work for them.Īfter quite a number of failed attempts, I decided to reset my garage door opener to see what happens when I reprogrammed my working remotes to talk to it again. These "solutions" often said things like "don't hold the button too long," or "only button 3 works," or "be sure to hold the button until the Homelink light stops flashing." I now believe that these well meaning posters were fooled into thinking that the last random variation they tried actually "caused" their success, when in reality, the "solution" was the fact that they tried one more time and happened to get lucky. If you're a glutton for punishment, you can continue to read more gory details of how I got my Homelink to work.Īs I said, I tried many different "solutions" posted by Homelink owners who also escaped their boats of Homelink frustration. the Homelink button stayed in fast flash mode, and it could not open the garage door.Īs I said in the short answer, repeating that last step two dozen times finally led to the Homelink button working. That's the step that wasn't working for me. At this point, you are supposed to push the "learn" button on your garage door opener, then push then release the fast blinking Homelink button 2 or 3 times for about 2 seconds. When I pushed and held the Homelink button while simultaneously pushing my working remote's button, the Homelink buttons correctly went to fast flash mode (i.e., they were matched to my remote, but still needed to be programmed to the garage door opener's rolling code). First, let me describe my problem symptoms - if your symptoms are different, then you probably have a different problem than I had.Īfter resetting my Homelink buttons, all three Homelink buttons correctly went into the slow blink mode (i.e., they were ready to be programmed by my remote). Read on if you want to know a long answer. I wrote "solution" in quotes in the thread title since trying two dozen times feels at best like a workaround, not an actual "solution." Short answer: There is a random timing that happens during the rolling code programming that mostly leads to failure, but which will eventually lead to success if you try enough times. I think I finally figured out the solution by accident, and I wanted to share it with anyone else who is stuck in the same boat that I recently escaped from. I tried the many solutions I read here ( ) and elsewhere, but none of them worked for me. Signed up here while scouring what feels like the entire Internet for a solution to why my 2015 RX350's Homelink wouldn't complete the rolling code portion of initialization.
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