Why is there a delay that locks my garage door remote
First if your garage door opener is an older model using DIP pins or a preset RF frequency, then
there should be no such delay or locking of the remote.
Newer garage door remotes and operators, operate on a rolling code system at and RF
frequency of 310, 315 or 390 MHZ depending on the brand of your operator and what year it
was manufactured. The rolling code system was invented to prevent hackers/thieves from
recording and retransmitting the code later to gain access to your garage. The rolling codes do
not allow the garage door to open if a signal is sent from a transmitter has already been used.
Each time you activate your garage door remote to open or close your garage door it sets a new
code for both the remote(transmitter) to use and for the opener(receiver) to recognize to allow
you to open and close your garage door. Garage door openers(receivers) and
remotes(transmitters) are synchronized during set up to communicate with each other. The
opener(receiver) and remote(transmitter) can store and function upon tens of thousands of
different codes making it virtually impossible for someone to capture your codes and open your
garage door at a later time using the code they captured. This is a simple explanation to the
technology that goes into making garage door openers and remotes as hack proof as possible.
To answer your question in simple terms, the lock or delay caused by using your remote to
open or close your garage door is a security feature to prevent hackers from recording the
frequency and using it later to access your garage.
Can the delay be adjusted?
The delay should be very short, lasting only a
second or two, while the remote(transmitter) and the opener(receiver) recode themselves for
the next frequency used by the remote to open or close your garage door.
There is no way to adjust this delay, but as technology improves in the garage door industry this
delay should be minimized even more. Again this delay should be minimal, and is present for
security reasons.
