Weak Homelink signal?

[FunWithDirt]

I got my Homelink programmed FINALLY to where it seems to work... ish. However, the signal seems very weak. Now, the garage door opener battery is new. I used this very opener to program the Homelink in my wife's '21 Grand Cherokee L the day before. The Jeep works like a champ. Once I round the corner and can see my house I can hit the Homelink button and it opens. In my Ram, and I saw this once before when I had it working briefly, I had to get within 15 feet of the door and pressing the button several times for it to pick up. At times I was just feet from the garage door and hitting the button.

Anything anyone can think of that might be causing the signal to be weaker than with the 2015 Grand Cherokee we owned until yesterday and the 2021 Grand Cherokee we've owned since?

Thanks!

 

[6speedcummins]

I stopped using my home link years ago. It would only work half the time, even sitting directly in front of the door.The actual opener will open it from down the street every time.

 

[GTyankee]

Unscrew any LED bulbs in or around the garage, then try using it again

If that did not work, remove your current garage door antenna & add a longer antenna, don't make it that much longer
That could cause other issues

 

[shadowhawk]

my entire garage ceiling is LED fixtures- 20 of them to be exact. My homelink sucks, even in front of the door but I won't give up the lights.

 

[GTyankee]

There are cheap LEDs that mess with the frequency that the Homelink & actually the Rams remote start work on, the Home Link, Remote Start & the TPMS all work on 433 Mhz. Older Rams worked on 315Mhz

A solution to preventing a signal block is purchasing high-quality LED bulbs or adding ferrite beads to the wiring on each fitting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrLWTVeJp0 using ferrite beads

 

[GTyankee]

replaced with a blunted point which retracts into a hidden cavity of the syringe itself. The point is spring-loaded and retracts easily.
Its just like those fake knives, the blade retracts into the handle

 

[bigred90gt]

replaced with a blunted point which retracts into a hidden cavity of the syringe itself. The point is spring-loaded and retracts easily.
Its just like those fake knives, the blade retracts into the handle

That seems a bit random and out of place in this particular thread, lol. I do enjoy a good humorous conspiracy theory though.

 

[GTyankee]

not even a blink, until it was pulled out

 

[bigred90gt]

not even a blink, until it was pulled out

I'm sure our comments will (rightfully so) be deleted from this thread.

I give myself shots once a week with a far fatter needle than what is used for any vaccination I've ever had. I recently had to get 4 different vaccinations, 2 in each arm within about a 1 minute span, for a work trip to Africa (sitting in a construction vessel in the Atlantic off the coast of Gabon now actually). Never felt any of them, certainly not enough to trigger a "blink". The needle used for the covid vaccine is so small you'd be hard pressed to feel anything when it goes in.

While I completely understand and agree that not everything is as it seems, I also understand that not everything in this world involving certain people is a conspiracy. Dude is what, 80 years old? I imagine he has had a shot or 3 in his lifetime. Not everyone is afraid of needles and winces when they get a shot. But that's not nearly as exciting as thinking about the possibilities of it all being some wild conspiracy to sterilize the population, implant microchips, or whatever the conspiracy of the day is.

I am truly fascinated by people's thought process though, so I am not in any way being sarcastic or confrontational when I say this, but in order to not muck up this thread any more than I/we already have, if you care to continue this conversation, feel free to PM me.

 

[GTyankee]

nuff said, until another time