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I use the 855LM RPTR LiftMaster HomeLink Repeater Kit for Security+ 2.0 Garage Door Opener at several of our family garages in order to get the Homelink openers in our vehicles to work.
It works for several different name brand door openers that are made by the same company.
I found this device listed on the garage door web sites when researching compatibility.
The bridge works in all of our vehicles from a 2003 Avalanche up to a 2012 GMC Acadia.
The bridge WILL NOT prevent any other type of remote from working.
It only provides a bridging link for an incompatible Homelink remote to communicate with the garage door opener.
Several different vehicles can use the same bridge.
NOW, while this device has worked great with all of the garage door openers I have installed up until LAST YEAR, when I installed a brand new model of the same opener at my house a couple of months ago, they seem to have changed something in the opener and my bridges no longer work consistently and reliably.
So, I can use my Homelink in all of our vehicles at several of our family homes, but I have had to go back to the included remote for my own opener.
I even bought a second bridge and it does the same thing.
Oh, well.
In basic terms, you plug in the bridge device inside the garage.
I mount mine right at the door opener and plug it into the outlet on the ceiling that the opener uses.
It is small and it will hang there just fine.
Next, you take the training remote that comes with the bridge and use it to train one of the buttons on your Homelink, per the normal instructions.
Then, put your garage door opener into learn mode and go press the programmed button on your Homelink until the opener light flashes.
Done.
It works for several different name brand door openers that are made by the same company.
I found this device listed on the garage door web sites when researching compatibility.
The bridge works in all of our vehicles from a 2003 Avalanche up to a 2012 GMC Acadia.
The bridge WILL NOT prevent any other type of remote from working.
It only provides a bridging link for an incompatible Homelink remote to communicate with the garage door opener.
Several different vehicles can use the same bridge.
NOW, while this device has worked great with all of the garage door openers I have installed up until LAST YEAR, when I installed a brand new model of the same opener at my house a couple of months ago, they seem to have changed something in the opener and my bridges no longer work consistently and reliably.
So, I can use my Homelink in all of our vehicles at several of our family homes, but I have had to go back to the included remote for my own opener.
I even bought a second bridge and it does the same thing.
Oh, well.
In basic terms, you plug in the bridge device inside the garage.
I mount mine right at the door opener and plug it into the outlet on the ceiling that the opener uses.
It is small and it will hang there just fine.
Next, you take the training remote that comes with the bridge and use it to train one of the buttons on your Homelink, per the normal instructions.
Then, put your garage door opener into learn mode and go press the programmed button on your Homelink until the opener light flashes.
Done.