LiftMaster 855lm Homelink Repeater Kit

Some important things to realize about this product: (1) Their online marketing material is not clear, but the smaller box that looks like a remote control is *ONLY* for programming your older car's HomeLink 1.0 system. You cannot use it as an additional GDO (garage door opener) remote. However, I'm planning on keeping it in case I have to reprogram my old car due to a battery disconnect or I buy a different older model car. (2) Place the repeater (the larger box) as close to the GDO as possible. Mine is about 18" from it, and it works great. Some reviewers had complained about this, perhaps because they don't have an electrical outlet close to the GDO. But I don't understand that rationale because the GDO runs on electricity, so why not just plug the repeater into the same electrical outlet, even if you have to use a power strip? (3) The repeater works as an intermediate relay, essentially taking your old car's HomeLink transmission (v1.0 is at a lower frequency) and converting it to the higher frequency required by the HomeLink v2.0 system (which is probably what your new GDO senses). The higher frequency gives HomeLink an opportunity to offer you control over more devices within your home. (4) Use the smaller box (the thing that looks like a GDO remote) to first sense what frequency your car's built-in HomeLink 1.0 system broadcasts at. Those instructions are per YOUR vehicle and will NOT be included in this HomeLink product. If you don't have the original owner's manual, find one online or call a dealership to ask how to program a new GDO remote. (5) Follow the instructions included with this HomeLink Repeater product to sync it with your car's output. It's super simple; literally the press of two buttons within a 30-second window. (6) IMPORTANT: Straighten the purple antenna wire so that it hangs straight down as much as possible. If it is coiled, it will not sense your car's signal as well, forcing you to get drive closer to the garage to be within range. One reviewer here mentioned you could tie an 18-gauge wire to the end of the purple antenna wire with a wire nut in order to extend your range, but I did not have to do that. (7) The total install took me about 10 minutes, but that included reading the instructions, digging through a drawer, setting up a ladder to reach the electrical outlet above my GDO, and walking between my car (outside the garage) and the ladder inside my garage. :-) (8) When finished, my 2001 BMW's old HomeLink built-in NOW reaches considerably farther than what I had before. I can activate the GDO from the top of the hill, about 300 feet from the garage. It works fantabulous! This is a solid product, easy to install, and gave me more range than my old built-in HomeLink broadcasting unit in my BMW. Good luck!

Yes, like everyone else I was surprised to find out that my car's HomeLink buttons did not work with my new Chamberlain garage door opener. I was ready to pull my hair out figuring why it wouldn't program properly. After calling Chamberlain they very casually informed me (this must be their number one support call topic) that I needed the Home Link repeater kit in order for the newer model garage door opener to work with my older HL controls in my car. Seems the technology gods forgot about backwards compatibility. When I received the HomeLink repeater kit it was literally a 3 minute install. The enclosed remote is only used to program one of your HL buttons. Once it's programmed you no longer need the remote until you are ready to program another remote, or another door opener. Yes, one HL repeater will work on multiple doors within the same four walls. I was quite happy that the HL repeater programmed so easily, and correctly the very first time. There was absolutely no issues. As others have pointed out, the HL buttons will not work during a power outage as the repeater requires constant AC power. You can mitigate this in one of several ways (provided your garage door has battery backup installed), e.g., have an external keypad entry for the garage door, store one of the remotes in your car's glove box (no one really wants to do this as it becomes a security issue), provide battery backup to the HL Repeater. Any of these will work, but really, how often do you deal with power outages. In my area they are very scarce so this was a non-issue for me.

I had to buy a replacement garage door opener and decided to stay with Chamberlain and upgrade to the WiFi with built in myQ technology. What I didn't know before installing is that the newer security frequency was not updated with older cars with Homelink built in. I can't give the website but you can Google "Chamberlain myQ Homelink compatability" and check if your car's Homelink will work. I ordered this Homelink repeater kit and had it installed in 10 minutes. Follow the directions that are included and take your time. My suggestion is that when it instructs you to hold a button in the car or on the included remote you need to HOLD THE BUTTON for more than a few seconds. Look for the lights and be patient. Also, I had no issues with getting excellent reception from my car to the repeater. It works well and I do not need to be on the driveway for it to work. I mounted the repeater on the ceiling just behind the garage door opener using a GE 6 plug outlet that screws into the face plate so it will not loosen and fall. I was able to plug in the opener, home alarm, security camera and repeater. Once you program everything you will notice that you will need to hold down your car's Homelink button for a few seconds. The repeater takes the signal from your car and then sends a signal with the new security technology to the garage door opener. That is why it takes a few seconds. I wish this was already baked into the new garage door opener. This repeater was totally worth the money since I didn't want to have a new remote clipped to my visor, console or glove box. I am very happy with the cost and the way it turned out . I read some reviews that complained that they didn't get a visor clip with this item. The remote that comes with this is not intended to be used in a vehicle, therefore no clip. It is only for programming. Don't lose it because you will need it for programming any other Homelink systems in older vehicles. One more point, you can't program your older remotes with the repeater. It is only for programming Homelink systems in older cars.

My old opener (20+ yrs.) wore out (nylon gears) but worked well with the built in remotes in my 2004 Chrysler 300M and my 2004 Grand Cherokee. I was in a hurry to get an opener working for my wife so I purchased a Chamberlain PD75KEV at my local big box store. It was easy to install and works very well with the openers that came with it. HOWEVER, it would not work with the in vehicle remotes my cars have. I tried following the instructions, every suggestion I could find on the web, and several times erased the opener's memory. Nothing worked. The remotes that came with the opener were always easy to program. Finally I called the Chamberlain service line and they told me I had to buy this Liftmaster 855LM HomeLink® Repeater Kit to make the opener work with my "in car" remotes. I tried everything all over again and the "in car" remotes still don't work. I believe that: 1. Chamberlain should have supplied a "repeater" in the box with the opener that would work with the it. or 2. They should have supplied a mail in coupon for a repeater that would let the user specify what model cars he wants to use. and 3. That the package the opener came in should say on the box that it does not work with "in car" remotes for MANY vehicles. The seller, by the way, was very nice and understanding when contacted and promptly settled things to my satisfaction. (not his fault the product is so poor) I would definitely buy from him again. I will not buy another Chamberlain product. Addendum: After many hours of trying and much frustration I finally was able to program the vehicles using the repeater. Here is what I did: 1. Erased all memory in the vehicle AND the opener itself. Even though my vehicles do NOT have a separate Homelink light I found this YouTube video worked for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ63TdjMvIQ 2. I paired the vehicle button to the repeater using the REPEATER instructions. 3. Then paired the vehicle button to the opener using the OPENER instructions. This whole process took less than 10 min. after I figured it all out. I still give Chamberlin/ Homelink a 1 star rating because the printed instructions that came with the units do not work by themselves and the repeater was not supplied with the opener. The key to making all three (vehicle, repeater, and opener) work together is to FIRST erase all memory in the opener AND the vehicle.

Our 11 year old garage door opener died and we had to replace it. The new one uses the newer security+ 2.0 signal protocol, and the Homelink in my wife's 2009 vehicle was not compatible. This repeater was required. The repeater receives the older-protocol signal from your car's Homelink and sends out a newer-protocol signal to the garage door opener. Setup was very easy. You use the included remote to program the Homelink in your car same as you would for any other remote (follow the instructions in the car's owner's manual). Then you plug the repeater into a power outlet, press the "learn" button on your garage door opener, press the Homelink button in your car like you're trying to open the garage, and that's it. A few cons: - This will tie up one of the electrical plugs in your garage. That may or may not matter to you, depending on your plug usage. Though it does not block the other plug, the dimensions of the device do require an amount of clearance to the sides and below the plug. - By implementing a method to open your garage door with an older-protocol signal, you are downgrading the level of security of the garage door opener. - Some complain about the range of this repeater. We did not have a problem but individual results may vary based on the location in the garage of available power plugs. Overall, though, this may work but I have to question if it was worth it. As of this writing, this repeater costs about the same as an additional "clicker" opener remote. Why not just buy another remote? Is being able to press a button on your rearview mirror instead of a clicker clipped to your visor really worth tying up a plug and downgrading your security? And if, when the wife gets a new car, the new one doesn't have Homelink, we're going to have to buy another remote anyway. Or, if the new car has updated Homelink that doesn't require the repeater, then we will no longer benefit from the investment in the repeater (while another remote would continue to have usefulness). This question was in my mind when I bought this but I decided to do it anyway to avoid having to make the argument to my wife. You pick your battles...

Allows our 2014 Subaru HomeLink buttons to work with our brand new Chamberlain garage door opener (my MyQ and battery backup), which is all that it's supposed to do, so that's great. One thing that worries me is that the repeater doesn't have a learn button, it's tied to the remote that it comes with (which is what you have the HomeLink buttons in your car learn) so that means that if you lose this remote, you can't replace it (have to buy a new repeater kit). However, since you only use the remote once per buying a new car, it's not a big concern, but it does give you plenty of time to lose it in-between uses. For additional new, duplicate, remotes, you just buy ones that work with the garage door opener rather than this unit. I notice that the opener takes longer to activate when using the HomeLink in our cars than the original remotes take, requiring you to hold the HomeLink button for couple of seconds, rather than just push the opener's button for a fraction of a second, but it works, and that's a small, tiny, inconvenience to pay for the clean look and convenience of using HomeLink. Since the battery backup on the Chamberlain only powers the lifter and not this repeater, that means that either the battery backup is useless or you have to carry the original (not repeater's) remote in the car, just in case the power goes out. That's a bit of a bummer -- but not worth trying to figure out how to put a UPS up on the ceiling. I don't know how far you can place the repeater from the garage door opener (if I was try to put it on a UPS), but the manual suggests using the other power outlet that the garage door opener plugs into, basically putting the repeater inches away from the opener. I have a keypad entry which I can use if needed and I carry the original opener in the glovebox, so we're covered in case of a storm. The original opener that worked with HomeLink without this repeater didn't have a battery backup, so it wasn't going to work in the case of a power failure anyway (but next time I'll know not to buy the battery backup model).

Works great. Easy to install as long as you follow the directions. For those who don't understand what this does, here's a small, simple explanation. This product is a simple little "repeater", used in cars and such which contain older "HomeLink"-compatible products (for example, my 2003 Nissan Maxima, and my 2008 Toyota Sienna). The built-in garage opener buttons in these older cars send remote control signals in a language that the newer garage openers don't understand (pretty silly of the company, if you ask me). So HomeLink sells this device, which can receive and understand the older signal language, and can translate them and send out the new signal language which the newer garage openers readily understand. This product comes with a small device which looks like a remote control button, but is not. It is simply the thing which you use to program your older car, using the older signal language. Once programmed, your car sends out the remote control signal in it's usual "older" language. It is received by the repeater (the bigger item in the pair of products). The repeater then promptly repeats the received signal, but in the "newer" language which the garage opener clearly understands. I hope this helps. <I felt compelled to add my own personal rant below. Feel free to ignore it> I do believe HomeLink could easily build this capability into the newer garage openers, but they clearly seemed to have a profit motive when they decided not to make the newer systems backward-compatible with older remotes. In other words, if they can make a product to bridge the problem, then they can just as easily embed it in the opener for a pittance. It certainly caused me undue frustration until I took the time to figure out the problem. It's not enough for them to state that the trouble-shooting steps would have narrowed the problem. One simply doesn't expect such simple devices not to be backward compatible. For crying out loud, even Windows computers (until recently) were backward compatible for 15+ years, and home WiFi computer networks are still backward compatible for 17 years ! <End rant>

Homelink, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.... Having a nice new Chamberlain opener and a 2007 Nissan and 2006 Lexus, of course their HomeLinks won't play with that opener. I have a background in electronics and fix televisions for fun, and this was a royal pain to get working. First of all, THE REMOTE IS NOT A REMOTE. You see the little box with the button on it next to the receiver? Will it actually send a signal and open your garage door? NO. I got to the point of disassembling the unit, reading the chip numbers, measuring voltages and trying to reverse-engineer it before I noted that the instructions NEVER tell you to test it with the little looks-like-a-remote (LLAR) that comes with it. Why don't the instructions say that? Would it not be logical that the remote transmitter would operate the remote receiver? It won't. The LLAR exists ONLY to feed signal to the Homelink in your vehicle, so don't lose it, or you'll need to buy another one of these if you get another vehicle. In fact, take out the battery and get some double sided foam tape and attach it to the receiver. This unit is a 'wall wart' that takes up more than half the outlet. Since I already had opener and shop light plugged in, I had to mount a whole power strip up by the opener, since now I need THREE outlets. A little science-fair project there on the ceiling. If the power goes out, my Chamberlain has a battery backup, but this unit does not. I guess I could put a shelf above my garage door opener and install a APC UPS to feed the .0002 watts this thing uses, not. Their helpful instructions are to keep the original remote in the glove box for if the power goes out.....seriously, who does that? I've got enough electronics and other junk in my glove box already. This would then just serve as a nagging reminder of how much I hate Homelink. Does anyone ever actually put gloves in their glove box? But I digress.... WHY not put a 9V battery in this thing? It would run for a year. Or just a rechargeable battery...perhaps the news of that invention has not reached those who designed this modern marvel. Or even better, make it run off 12V and Chamberlain would give you a little wiring harness to run it off the huge gel-cell battery inside the opener, then put magnets on the back so it would stick to the housing of the opener (I should invent these things). I was tempted to hack it and the garage door opener to run it off the internal power supply of the opener, or perhaps Chamberlain could just build this $5 circuit into their opener, but I digress. Including the time spent taking it apart, since I thought it was dead, and the time spent mounting a power strip and doing the mystical and frustrating procedure that is involved with programming the Homelink buttons and getting my garage door to learn the new remote sources, it all works.....about three hours later.

Emparejado (1) con un operador Liftmaster 87504-267, me permitió mantener funcional el sistema HomeLink en mi vehículo, y evito el tener que llevar en la visera el control remoto del motor. Solo mencionar que debí mantener pulsado el botón programado en el HomeLink durante 10 segundos despues del parpadeo en las luces del motor para que lograr el puente. Lo recomiendo.

I have two liftmaster jackshaft garage door openers installed in a new house build. I have two older vehicles (2007, 2008) with the older Homelink remotes (one on the mirror and one on the visor). Both my vehicle Homelink remotes operate and are programmed in the same way. Since I had two garage door openers that would not work with my older vehicles, I had to buy two Homelink Repeater kits....or so I thought. Learn from my experience. Installation was fairly straightforward following my Liftmaster instructions, the Homelink repeater instructions, and the Homelink instructions in my vehicle owner manuals. The problems I had were that the garage door sensitivity was not that great. Sometimes the doors would open and sometimes not. When a door would not open, I would hav eto get out of my vehicle and use the keypad to open it. Very frustrating. What I learned was that the two Homelink repeaters were interfering with one another. The recommendation was to space them further apart. I had them about 6 or 7 feet from one anothre and they were still interfering. I had to unplug one of the repeaters so the other would work consistently (and quite well). One trouble shooting solution said I may have to replace the control board in my Liftmaster opener. I finally came across a helpful customer service support person from Chamberlain who said, in short, I only needed one repeater with one remote to program BOTH my garage door openers. They said if I had three garage doors, I still would only need one repeater with one remote. Sure enough, the one repeater/remote combo was all I needed. Both doors open consistently without fail. Why this isn't documented anywhere, I don't know other than the resellers are trying to sell more of these units. If some people can get multiple repeaters to work without fail, more profit for the resellers. I have had them for 6 months now so likely I can't return the one I don't need. Don't buy more than one, that is all you need unless you have garage doors that are VERY far apart and outside of the repeater range.

The opener is a 2016 Chamberlain belt drive unit (with MyQ). The car is a 2008 Infinti EX35. The HomeLink in the Infinity worked just fine with a 2008 vintage Craftsman opener. But, alas, technology moves on, and it was non-starter with the new opener. This Repeater Kit/Compatibilty Bridge works as advertised. The set up was straight forward - following the instructions for the car and the Bridge, it all worked the first time. My initial observation is that the HomeLink in the car now seems a bit "slow." That is, it seems like you have to hold the HomeLink button on the rear-view mirror until the garage door starts to move. You can't seem to just hit the button for just a moment and have it work. Not a big deal. This will be much better than having to have a separate remote in the car. It will be interesting to see how it performs in the long term, especially during our winters (at -40 and all ;)

Worked perfectly with my 2006 VW Jetta! Only reason for 4 stars is that this could easily be half the price.

Easy to install and set up. worked like a charm to connect Homelink on two older vehicles to a brand new garage opener. The whole setup took maybe 5 minutes. And I am bad with electronics. I loved the simplicity of the whole system and how effective it is.