[Ben The Ody Guy]

My Ody touring's built in garage opener is having problems linking to our garage. Is anyone else having the same problems? If so, do you know how to get this thing to work? Please respond.












- Ody touring w/ RES & Nav.
- MDX touring w/ RES & Nav.
- CR-V EX

 

[kapish]

I am not sure if you have seen this link. If not, please take a look. I have also read somewhere that owners/service people had seen defective homelink units, and those needed to be replaced. Goodluck!

 

[yatesd]

Ben,

I had the same problem originally. You probably have a rolling code garage door opener. The manual leaves a few words out, like " Go through the procedures on both pages if you have a relatively new garage door opener". I made the mistake of thinking the first page was for old style and the second page was for the rolling code units.

I was lucky, my Oldsdmobile Bravada has homelink on it as well. I was very close to calling the dealer, when I finally used my Olds manual to program the Ody. It now works great....

 

[kapish]

http://www.homelink.com/program/rolling.html

To program garage door openers with rolling code refer to the instructions found at http://www.homelink.com/program/rolling.html

 

[vtbjnt]

training button

First you must program your door opener into the homelink system. If you have a rolling code door open which is highly likely, you must go up and push the training button and then push the home link button. You may have to do this a couple of time. Have some one watch the light in the door opener to flicker that means the code has been learned. Good Luck

 

[Jarrod]

You didn't say what you tried, but make sure you clear the buttons out (hold down the left and right buttons together for ~20sec until the lights flash) before you try to program any of them. Mine would not work until I did that.

 

[psuwife]

Make sure that the engine is shut off. Because I was listening to music and playing with the buttons last Saturday while the boys were out to the Icers game. I tried and tried and just about gave up and tried once as the engine was shut off. Voila!! It worked.

 

[tcmac]

Homelink figured out!

After reading the threads on Homelink, I was almost convinced our unit was defective. Then I re-read this thread and tried following ALL the instructions one more time. The Quick Start Guide and Ody Manual are almost written like there are two seperate processes, one for non-rolling code openers and one for rolling code openers.

The way to get it to work is to follow ALL the instructions, from start to finish, exactly as written, no skipping steps or starting in the middle. I had the engine off, but the key was turned to the "on" position (all dash lights on, etc.).

Seems the Homelink unit has to learn your remote first (this is the first six steps of the Quick Start Guide). After it learns the remote, then it can learn the rolling code part. I was not getting it to work because I was jumping right into step 7 of the Quick Start Guide because I knew mine was a rolling code door opener.

I think our VIN was even in the range mentioned in the service bulletin.

Anyway, good news, I got mine to work.

 

[FromNJ]

The difficulty I had was that the homelink system was opposite from our garage door openers. The factory garage openers required you to depress and release before the garage would open. Homelink is the opposite, we now need to press and hold. The main advantage is that the homelink sys appears to work from farther away.

 

[Chas8167]

First program your remote to the Home Link.
Second program the Home Link to your Garage Door Opener (Based on how the Garage Door Opener instruction manual says to add new remotes.)

 

[barbre]

Don't give up hope! I just got our homelink working this past weekend. I have no idea what I did differently but whatever it was did the trick!

To echo what others have said:

* keep the engine off.
* Program the remote first
* Then train for roaming codes.

Good Luck.

 

[bbison]

I didn't figure out how to make the Homelink work in my '03 until I tried the instructions from my wife's '04 Volvo (w./ Homelink) manual. The Honda instructions were poorly written.

What folks said above works; Homelink learns the remote, then is set to the opener. I think the '05 instructions are better.