[DonH57]

Both our garage door opener remotes seem to intermittently not work so I changed the batteries in both since I don't know the last time they had been changed. The next day both fail to open or close the garage door unless I'm inside the garage. If I try from outside both fail to operate the door. I went through all the troubleshooting literature I could find and nothing seems to work. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

[villages07]

We ended up replacing our remotes at about 7 years old....the ones in the golf cart. Perhaps too much exposure to the elements made the contacts/switch inconsistent. Remote in the car works fine. We have the MVP system and bought replacement remotes from Amazon.

[DonH57]

Now here's the funny part. The remote will now work when we are about 25 feet from the garage. Go figure.

[dmorhome]

unpug unit and plug back in about a minute later.

[simpkinp]

Age old solution. Reboot. Works most of the. Time. Good luck

[MikeV]

Our 4 remotes do exactly the same thing. Dead spots inside the garage and outside. They work best at 20-25' plus.

[DonH57]

Well. Now neither of them are working. Back to the drawing board tommorow.

[kaydee]

ours was very inconsistent.. changed battery... no better. Gave in and bought a universal one from lowes.

[kittygilchrist]

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Techn...ghbor_Info.pdf

Maybe you have a neighbor who is a ham operator or some other kind of electronic interference that would be intermittent.

[DonH57]

Thanks to all for the leads. It's just a process of elimination.