Yet anothercrisis

My '12 homelink works great. New Liftmaster with rolling code. No repeater.

3Series

Good to know.

To be more specific the newer garage door openers from the Chamberlain group with MyQ technology (most are belt driven) are the openers that usually need a repeater.

Domer911

mine works consistently, but the range absolutely sucks hind titty

Iceter

Yep, the 997 homelink works with rolling codes. My garage doors openers are no more than three years old and there are added steps in the manual for setting the 997 homelink for rolling code openers.

My issues are sporadic and don't occur with our other cars, which makes them all the more irritating because that means it's a Porsche issue, and I can't blame something else.

stronbl

I too have rolling code Liftmasters and Homelink works fine them. In fact my 2010 997 is more reliable than our 2003 Acura MDX and our 2008 BMW 335 such that the garage door opens usually with first push while sometimes the Acura and BMW take 2 or 3 pushes to get it to work.

mlv_250

Our driveway has a slight incline coming off the road that gradually levels off to the garage. Between these two extreme points the garage door "receiver" will not pick up any Homelink signal while in this blackout zone.

myw

is the 911 homelink 'copying' your garage remote properly? ie. are the FOGS/LED lights flashing 3 times to confirm that the 911 homelink has copied the signal?

when i homelink'd my car(s), i was doing this with my cars inside the garage so the first thing i did was set my garage to 'LOCK' mode (this way it would prevent the garage going up and down a million times).

being in the garage you would know if something was working or not since the garage door opener's lights would 'blink' when it was receiving signals, properly 'learning' your 911 homelink signal (etc etc).

when pressing the buttons a full press IMO is acheived when you count 'one-one-thousand-two', a simple light tap doesnt seem to register and holding the button for too long also doesn't help either.

myw

911 homelink setup guide for dummies

step 0 - engine does not need to be running but ignition has to be ON so that FULL electronics are functioning. make sure your fogs lights are off as well.
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step 1 - clean 911 home link MEMORY
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- hold buttons 911 homelink buttons 1+3 until the homelink light (beside button 3) flashes confirming that the homelink storage buttons are clean and clear

step 2 - have 911 homelink copy your current garage door opener signal(s)
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- press homelink garage-door button '1' (full press one-one-thousand-two count), you will see the homelink light flashing to tell you to stand outside the 911
- standing in front of the 911, place your current garage door remote opener directly a foot in front of the Porsche hood emblem
- now press and HOLD garage-door remote button '1' .... it shouldn't take long for your your exterior fogs/leds to flash 3 times
- if you have more then one garage door, repeat the process with the different garage door #/911 homelink# buttons

as long as your exterior fogs/leds have flashed 3 times you can be confident that the 911 homelink has copied the garage door remote's signals ... now test your 911 homelink buttons (remove any garage door 'lock limitations' and do a full one second press of your 911 homelink buttons).

if the garage door opens/closes then your done if not proceed to step 3

step 3 (rolling code garage door openers) - your garage door opener has to be 'taught' to accept the signals coming from your 911 homelink
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- (assuming you have only one garage door) on your garage door opener itself press the 'learn' button (this is on the garage door opener itself, or very likely on the garage door wall-pad controller). if you have a wall pad controller the controller should say 'LEARN MODE' or some other similar message.
- now get back into the 911 and press the 911 homelink garage-door button 3 times (make sure each press is a full one second press, followed by a one second pause). by the third press the garage door should be going up or down.

my apologies if this guide is too verbose or at the same time too 'dumbed down'

this has to be work.

Chris - 97C2

Works great, but the range isn't near as good as on my '11 S4. Of course, the S4 also has much better reception on the sat radio as well. Maybe Porsche will get some of the good Audi bits!

Leader

Mine works perfectly with two rolling-code receivers - consistently.
Good range, too.

Devil Boy

+1

Schpee007

Thanks for all the great input and detail on programming. I am going to reprogram and see if I get a better result. Hopefully just operator error on the prior programming. Worst case nothing improves and I now know I am not alone with spotty performance. :-)

jbpdx

I tried to program my garage door opener (Overhead brand) on multiple occasions to no avail. A couple of weeks ago a coil spring on the door snapped (luckily no piece of the spring hit anyone or my car). I mentioned to the service technician who replaced the spring my inability to program Homelink. He did it for me but it took him several attempts. He also mentioned that Porsches and Mercedes are particularly difficult to program. It works like a charm now. My wife's Acura was easily programmed. Bottom line, don't beat yourself up - it's not a straightforward process.

myw

some garage door openers in learn mode require you to press the learn button twice (keep that in mind re step 3).

Minok

I was able to program my 997.2 the first try without problem. Maybe its directions that lead some folks to do some steps wrong or it is dependent on the brand of garage remote system.