How To Program A Genie Garage Door Opener Remote Control

Genie garage door openers are mechanical door openers for residential garages.

How to program a genie garage door opener remote control. A genie garage door opener which has only 3 terminals on its motor head will use the terminals on the motor head marked 1 for common and 3 for power. With the genie universal remote you can control a combination of up to 4 different garage door openers and or gate receivers. The intellicode system is the genie company s proprietary garage door opener technology that constantly rotates digital codes so that thieves cannot gain entrance to your garage by electronic hacking it is now used on most of genie s garage door openers which usually come with remote controls that are already coded to match. Unlike their intellicode system which you can program with a press of a button the remotes and the door opener dip switches must match in order for the remotes to work correctly.

Each of the 4 buttons on the remote programs individually of the others so having multiple brands of openers controlled by a single remote is not a problem. If you have a genie garage door opener with more than 3 terminals an external 24vac adaptor will need to be purchased to supply power to this receiver. Up to seven remote operated devices can be programmed into one of the genie legacy intellicode garage door openers. Older model genie garage door openers use dip switches rather than a smart to program the opener and remote controls.