Hot Pipes

[Mantra]

So i wake up at about 2 in the morning thinking I'll go downstairs and take a sip of sprite to cure my hotpipes. I'm taking a slug out of the bottle and I hear the garage door start to go up.

I'm like what the **** is that, I look into the garage and the door is up about a foot from the ground so i take quick look outside and don't see anything.

****in freaks me out, I get my shoes on and go outside because i have garage door openers in my van and the car I have sitting outside. Both locked HMMMM.

What the **** is going on you do you think someone was going around and checking gargage doors and seeing which ones they opened to come back in the daytime to rob me. I'ts an old school opener with the pin settings.

I'm going to change them today....WHAT THE ****, REALLY WEIRD]] had a hard time fallen back to sleep in that cold gargage.

 

[bmwpower]

That is weird. It's quite possible someone is scanning for vulnerable door openers. Quite odd that it happened just when you were downstairs. Is anything missing?

The other possibility is that since the opener is older, it may be susceptable to outside interference from somewhere.

I, too, would change them out.

 

[Gregdoo]

I've heard that garage doors can be triggered by military radio signals. Maybe there was a military aircraft in the vicinity headed towards Wright-Patterson?

Were your weather conditions such that the normal flight routes last night were not being used? Or have you seen more military aircraft than normal?

 

[Hugh Morrow]

A USA warship was in our harbour and it created a lot of havock with the same type of thing. It was in Vancover BC Canada.

 

[bje31]

same thing has happened in Western PA, near the 911 crash site...our local govrnment blames it on the military planes as well...

 

[bmwpower]

Are you guys serious? What happens when I'm at work, my garage door is set off by some military plane and some thief comes in and steals my stuff? Do I blame the military?

 

[6t7gto]

years ago, my dad's door would cycle up and down.
he lived on the flight path to the airport.
the problem was so bad that he put a wall switch in the kitchen to kill the power to the door opener at night.
that old door opener only used one channel to activate it.
his new one crosses two channels to activate and he has never had another problem.
my new opener automatically sets a new code everytime the door is activated.
david

 

[BowtieNut]

I had this problem at my old house too. It had an old 1970's Montgomery Wards GDO, and would open on it's own sometimes. The opener itself still worked good, so I just went and got a newer Genie "intellicode" (has roaming codes) universal transmitter and reciever. Unhooked the old reciever, hooked up the new one, and never had another problem in 5 years.

 

[DynoDave]

This has happened to me on occassion from a stray signal. Since I don't park in my garage (don't ask!), when I'm really worried about it, I put a broom stick handle in a hole in the track just above one of the rollers. That way the door will only open about an inch, sense the load, and close again. I also unplug ut when I'm going to be away from home.

The NEW garage will have it's openers on a switched outlet, so I can turn them off when I want to.

 

[Gregdoo]

More info here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10295651/

 

[krooser]

My door opener usually works pretty good but sometimes it gets a lttle sore...so I use the other arm.

No problems with military radio frequencies as far as I know....

 

[captainkeys]

Oh Sorry, that might have been me shaving.

 

[Pitalplace]

I am a retired police officer and have personal experience with our radios opening garage doors

 

[musclecarfreak]

Ok, I have a dumb question. My openers have roaming codes. How is it that if I use my remote, and the code changes every time I use it, how does my wife's remote know how to keep up with the changes? You would think that the unused remote would get left behind and when the codes change, become useless. How do they communicate?

 

[snorvet]

thats a very good question - i dont know the answer. Here's another one. How come come when I put my garage opener on lock, it wont open with the car remote, but it will open with the wireless wall remote I installed outside the house?

 

[ARAMP1]

Don't know of too many aircraft radios doing that anymore, especially with newer garage door openers. My garage door did cycle every once in a while when I first bought my house. I took the switch off the wall and found out that whoever wired it didn't trim one of the wires and it was shorting out. I trimmed the wire and it now works fine.