Browse Forums DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair 1 Dec 27, 2014 9:16 pm Hi All, I have a Gliderol garage door installed. Somehow, the garage door opens by itself when closed and stays open. Obviously this is not ideal, since this has happened late at night and the door stay open all night. This has happened before, and the person who installed the doors did come out to repair / reset the receiver (not sure) and it worked fine for about a year. Unfortunately I can't get hold of him now My questions - 1 - What could possibly cause this? 2 - Is there a way I can repair it, or should I wait for professional assistance? 3 - For the interim, can I switch off the power and also detach the back-up battery so that it will not open again on its own? Any assistance will be much appreciated! Re: Garage door opens by itself 2Dec 27, 2014 9:43 pm The newer transmitters have a huge number of frequency settings compared to the old ones but you can be unlucky. If you Google the thread's title, you will come up with numerous discussions about the problem. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Garage door opens by itself 3Dec 27, 2014 10:11 pm Hi there Go to the receiver board which will be the smaller circuit board there will be a tiny red, black or brown button hold it down for approximately 10 seconds or until the LED light turns off, you have now deleted all remotes. Then recode them in that should fix your issue. Let me know how it goes. Building the Sheffield 25 + 2 sq Re: Garage door opens by itself 4Dec 27, 2014 11:36 pm Hello Thanks for the reply. Will resetting the receiver board fix the problem, or how will I know this, since the door opens irregularly? How long do receivers last since the last time this happened (about a year ago), we had the receiver board refitted... Re: Garage door opens by itself 5Dec 28, 2014 5:20 am HI There More than likely you live in a new estate or development where you would have alot of neighbours also with gliderol garage doors. What happens is the installer or installers may have installed say 7 or 8 garages that day. Because they are tradies and generally careless more than likely they have mixed up the remote controls so your neightbour may have received a remote control that opens up your door as well as theirs as the installer probably coded their remote to their unit and then moved onto your door and may have coded the same remote again button 2 for example to your door. Then for whatever reason your neighbour ends up with a remote that opens their door and also button 2 on their remote will open yours. Resetting your receiver board will delete all stored remotes meaning your neighbour will no longer have access to open shut your door. Once you have done this there is no possible way your neighbour can ever gain access to yor door again unless they physically walk into your garage and code their remote back into your unit. There is no possible way that by chance you have the same signal being sent as the door uses rolling code technology and it checks each time a signal is sent that it has handshaked the remote at pairing stage. Your neighbours could sit there for 80 years all pressing their buttons on their remotes every second and the door would never open unless they had originally gained access to your garage and coded it in via the motor. The only other possibility is the button on your remote is accidently getting pressed and yes this does happen easily with the gliderol remote or you have a major fault in the circuit board and it needs replacing. Thanks Building the Sheffield 25 + 2 sq Re: Garage door opens by itself 6Dec 28, 2014 10:15 am I remember once - with an older style door - I was told if someone around you got new equipment - not necessarily a roller door - maybe just using wifi - it could affect the door. May need just a reset - but if new - get them to do it. In the meantime - close it manually - and lock. Re: Garage door opens by itself 7Dec 30, 2014 9:23 am Hi BeeBop How did you go with your garage door is it working now? Cheers Building the Sheffield 25 + 2 sq Re: Garage door opens by itself 8Jan 01, 2015 9:05 am When we built several years ago our neighbours door would open when one of the kids in the street turned on his remote to his remote controlled car, but only if near the front of the yard. They just changed frequency settings on door and it was okay, had 3 or 4 presets by memory just had to slide tabs inside box to new settings Re: Garage door opens by itself 9Jan 01, 2015 9:34 am I changed the frequency codes on my roller door, my mother's roller door and my girl friends roller door so they were all the same. This way I could use my remote control to access their garages and visa-versa. Re: Garage door opens by itself 10Jan 03, 2015 5:09 pm Beetaloo I changed the frequency codes on my roller door, my mother's roller door and my girl friends roller door so they were all the same. This way I could use my remote control to access their garages and visa-versa. That's a great idea ... Re: Garage door opens by itself 11Jan 08, 2015 3:45 pm This happened to ours aswell. At the beginning our roller door would open on its own. I came back from work to my surprise an open garage...!!!! Hubby resets the server a few times but still was happening. 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