Garage door openers
 

I went to buy 2 remotes for the garage door opener and guess what. No longer available. This is for the original openers that were installed when house built. The MVP ones. RO MAC says nothing available for them and all their inventory was turned in. If one need ANYTHING for these you have to buy a new system ,that is motor, controllers etc. Such a good deal eh!

Universal remotes (both car installed & stand alone) work with MVP units.

You are probably in the first step of the MVP unit failure. That is how my problem started with remote issues. Then our outside entry pad would not open the door even when we tried changing the code. Then our door stated to open and close on its own. We tried again to reprogram but to no success. The communication board in the control unit had failed.
It was time for a new system.

The visor button in my car operates the garage door.

I have heard people say that universal remotes will work, but have never seen one actually work, so be sure you can return whatever you buy. There are 5 pushbutton remotes for sale on this site, very reasonable so if that works for you great. There is also an entire motor unit for sale.
If none of these are of interest or work, I suggest replacing with Chamberline garage door opener, they have several models from basic to Wi-Fi, battery backup and belt drive. With care (and maybe some guidance) these are DIY projects, 2 person makes it much easier, and I have been able to reuse some of the existing mounting hardware which cuts down the installation time.

Chamberline openers work fine, but be aware that the company does not support home automation systems such as Alexa or Google home.
Another option is to add WIFI capability to your existing opener with a product like Nexx or other add-ons.

We have to lock our door so it doesn’t do strange things. Going to get a good quality belt drive unit at some point.

We have been told that universal remotes will not work with mvp.

I found one on ebay a week ago and bought it and due to arrive today. Hopefully will get what I wanted. As of last week the seller had a few left.

Look it up by part number.

Both of our car universal remotes work.

Very easy to program.

If the ORIGINAL opener no longer works with the original remotes, it may not be possible to program for "universal" remotes. There is a logic board in the opener (I have one as a spare) that contains the logic for programming the codes, but this still requires a MVP master station as there is NO programming button on the opener or this logic card.
OP, you could try reprogramming the unit with your remotes (make sure you have new batteries installed in the remotes), and see if this gets the garage door working. The instructions are available online. If you get a RED light on the remote, it should be working, and if the programming does not work, contact me and I can sell you my spare.

I just replaced my MVP openers with new Genie belt drives. The MVP openers and all associated hardware work great, I just wanted the quieter belt drives. If anyone is interested in the MVP openers, I will let you have them if you take "everything" (the rails, chains, openers, remotes, keypad, wall mounts, etc.).

Look for the remotes on eBay and Amazon.

try ebay

I woke up the other morning to a voicemail from TV security patrol alerting me that my garage door was opened. I didn’t open it and nothing was missing. It was strange.

Such an awful & disenchanting outcome.