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BMW X5 • View topic - BMW universal garage door remote transmitter

I'm hoping to purchase the above transmitter and am wondering if anyone has any experience of these?

It fits into the blanking plate in the roof consul and can control three different transmitters, ie house alarm, driveway gates and garage door.

I fitted one which works very well Your car may not be pre-wired for it though, which is a pain.

I used the interior light circuit to make the connections but a special dedicated plug is required to fit the UGDO unit.

Ok, so this thread is from a while back, but the car I'm getting has one of these fitted. And I've got an electric garage door (not that the X5 will fit in it). How do I programme it for my door

My understanding is that this only works with the old fashioned type of openers (i.e.

Single frequency).

My gates and garage doors all have frequency alternating codes so the OEM solution is not suitable for that one. Ashame though as every car has to have 2 transmitters in them at the moment.

Oh bum - pretty sure mine is of the rolling frequency type

Quote: : My understanding is that this only works with the old fashioned type of openers (i.e.

Single frequency).

My gates and garage doors all have frequency alternating codes so the OEM solution is not suitable for that one. You can often add a second receiver to garage door openers (a 10 minute job) which works on a different frequency to the original receiver and both the original remote and the new remotes from the second receiver should be able to open the doors.

You could then make sure that your second receiver is compatible with the BMW system. I have done this to two of our garage doors, on our older garage which had fag packet sized remotes, so that I could use keyring remotes instead.

I don't have the BMW remote option though, so I still need to carry a remote, but it could be a solution for those who want to use the inbuilt remote without changing the garage opener. 44

Quote: : Quote: : My understanding is that this only works with the old fashioned type of openers (i.e.

Single frequency).

My gates and garage doors all have frequency alternating codes so the OEM solution is not suitable for that one. You can often add a second receiver to garage door openers (a 10 minute job) which works on a different frequency to the original receiver and both the original remote and the new remotes from the second receiver should be able to open the doors.

You could then make sure that your second receiver is compatible with the BMW system. I have done this to two of our garage doors, on our older garage which had fag packet sized remotes, so that I could use keyring remotes instead.

I don't have the BMW remote option though, so I still need to carry a remote, but it could be a solution for those who want to use the inbuilt remote without changing the garage opener. 44 That sounds interesting!

I'll speak to the door company and see what they say

Quote: : Quote: : My understanding is that this only works with the old fashioned type of openers (i.e.

Single frequency).

My gates and garage doors all have frequency alternating codes so the OEM solution is not suitable for that one. You can often add a second receiver to garage door openers (a 10 minute job) which works on a different frequency to the original receiver and both the original remote and the new remotes from the second receiver should be able to open the doors.

You could then make sure that your second receiver is compatible with the BMW system. I have done this to two of our garage doors, on our older garage which had fag packet sized remotes, so that I could use keyring remotes instead.

I don't have the BMW remote option though, so I still need to carry a remote, but it could be a solution for those who want to use the inbuilt remote without changing the garage opener. 44 That sounds interesting!

I'll speak to the door company and see what they say

Maybe I'll just ask them the once though

Interesting concept that is.

My garage door specifically seems fairly straight forward as I have a push button inside to open/close it, so if you can add a single frequency thing in that cirquit to just make a connection - sounds simple enough.

Some interesting stuff on this site.... http://www.garage-door-remotes.co.uk/seip-ts433rx.htm M.

Quote: : Interesting concept that is.

My garage door specifically seems fairly straight forward as I have a push button inside to open/close it, so if you can add a single frequency thing in that cirquit to just make a connection - sounds simple enough. I'm pretty sure it would work - as you say it's fairly simple. On the three doors I have two Chamberlain (1994) and one Marantec (2005) door openers and they all have terminals on the back which provide power for a second receiver and accept an open/close signal from it, so I guess it's pretty standard.

One thing to check is that having the second receiver attached doesn't disable the built-in receiver on the opener - it certainly doesn't on the Chamberlain ones. 44

The BMW UGDO is based on Home link V5, most new receivers are V6 or V7, bottom line it won't work with new receivers. I have V7 receivers so I opened up the BMW box, ripped out the insides and replaced them with the insides from one of these http://www.garagedoorco.co.uk/product.a ...

Tion=motor the only problem is that to pair it with the door receiver you have to take it out of the car and hold it within about 1/2 inch of the receiver.

It also got round the wiring problem it's not wired!

Apart from that it works perfectly.




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