TOPENS HLR01 HomeLink Remote Control Kit

Great product and great after sales support! But don't forget that the little coiled up black wire inside must be uncoiled and slid between the slots in the case on top so you can get great reception! This is the antenna wire. This is a nice compact unit and can easily fit inside your gate opener case. In my case I have an Aleko AS900 unit. The range works well considering I'm using the built in Homelink system built into my sun visor. The unit only requires the 4 wires to install and it is an easy setup for connectivity. For me it was the best value for the money and I looked at several other options too. I worked in electronics for many years repairing and designing electronic and I felt that the circuit boards were well made.

I wasn't super excited I needed to buy something to make this work with our cars. But I looked into why Homelink is what it is and I get it. Bought one and it was a simple connect and worked right out of the box. The configuration in the cars was more about those than this device, but the receiver worked...for a while. After a couple months, one vehicle stopped working but I didn't pursue it because I still had the opener (one with the gate and one with the HLR01 - both still worked). Then it stopped working on the other vehicle. I contacted support and this is where I'm really happy. Evelyn responded quickly. She gave good information. I received actual instruction and feedback from the videos/picture I provided. We went through consecutive steps a little more than "turn it off and turn it on again" and the things that make someone somewhat knowledgeable feel like an idiot. After three short exchanges, a replacement was on its way. Arrived quick, installed just as easily as the first time, and we're off to the races again.

Perfect for OLD garage door operators

I can't speak to long term reliability, as I just installed two of them, but I can speak to functionality as a general purpose garage opener retrofit, which is quite good. You will need to find a 12v adapter (some USB phone chargers will do that if you find the right pair). I have a pile to pick through that I have accumulated over the years, and they are easy to find and buy). They just have to run a reciever and a relay, so a 5w or better should be plenty. And you will need a garage door opener that uses either a normally open or normally closed "contact switch" (all of the garage openers I have had use normally open contact switched for the inside wall switch). The device has two relays, one that fires with the A button on the remote, and one that fires on the B button. And each relay has three contact terminals exposed. So you have two buttons that control two relays, and each relay can be hooked up to anything that needs to be momentary closed or momentary open as needed. I took it a step further, we have two garage doors, so I bought two of these. I hooked the first door up to one of these with the A relay, and the second door to another one of these with the B relay. Then I programmed both remotes to both openers. So the A button opens the first door, and the B button opens the second door, from either remote. Then I programmed the cars (2019 Audi and 2021 Volvo) homelink transmitters, which synced up nicely with the signal from the remotes. So works from the cars as well. So, for the money, I retrofitted two old openers that were really limited and that had falling apart remotes with these, and got 9 memory slots for openers (4 used now) and two nice compact decently built (it seems) new remotes. And the old remotes and openers continue working as they were. So, great for hacking up new life into old openers. Hopefully the opener and remotes hold up!

The first thing you should know is that it doesn't come in a waterproof container, and there's no external antenna. It's housed in a cheap recycled phone jack box. And before you think you can purchase the standard waterproof enclosure, please know that you can't mount it in the size that seems natural because of the custom screw holes they used to mount it in the cheap plastic phone box. The box has venting so presumably, mounting the device in a waterproof enclosure will cause it to overheat. It's unclear. The instructions are terrible as well. They'll tell you to use Port 1 and 2 but not which is common or switched. The remote is poor quality and the screws in ours were rusted when we got it. The unit is wired correctly and goes through the programming motions, but doesn't work. Their instructions have 7 steps. Step 6 is to program your car using the Remote. Step 7 is programming the Remote--??? This means you have to go back to reprogram the car after you program the remote. It's totally backwards. But that's assuming you will get the receiver to learn the remote--we never got it to work. It's junk. Don't buy it.

It does work but the range is really bad. I have to be right up on my gate for it to work in both my bmw and jeep. Maybe 10 feet from the receiver. It doesn't really feel like I've made anything more convenient. With my original opener I can press the button on the remote from about 40 feet away. The gate's half open by the time I get there. Wish that one worked with homelink

Works... I think. I haven't had an opportunity to connect it to the garage door (for a customer) yet. But, I did connect it to a power supply, took it out to my car, set it up with the HomLink in my car and the relays clicked like they were supposed to... I'm calling this one a WIN! The setup was easy since the instructions were very clear. I'm assuming that clearing it and starting over will be just as easy. Just note that there is a long shipping time for this item.

Cut this apart and wired it to a couple Zigbee buttons and a buck converter to make an input in my Home Assistant setup that would let me use the extra HomeLink buttons to control exterior lighting. Works great for that. The fob is kind of cheesy, but it seems well made (and you'll only really need it to program your car). Range is decent - it easily reaches the street even when it's in the basement. If I were the manufacturer, I'd start marketing the bare board for this use through home automation channels.