Homelink garage door opener

Tip for Roadster owners who did not opt for the $3000 electronics package:

I did not opt for the electronics package - I planned to add my own radio. While I was getting my radio replaced, I planned to add a built-in garage door opener. The literature around the electronics package all mention the Homelink garage door opener as part of it - I assumed that meant not getting the electronics package meant not getting the garage door opener.

However: (at least in my car) it turns out that the Homelink garage door opener is in fact installed. Navigate to it from the touch screen and train it using a separate opener - it apparently lives underneath the left side of the dashboard. There is no need to add a third party one just because you didn't get the electronics package.

Last night I attempted driving the Roadster to the condo in Sacramento for the first time (150+ miles away)

Among other things, this necessitated programming a second code into the Homelink garage door opener... not the best UI.

For those not in the know: When you program the first opener into the Roadster, a little "house" icon appears on every VDS screen. No matter what screen you happen to be looking at, opening your garage door is one click away.

When you add a second opener to the VDS, the interface changes: There is still the one house icon on every screen, but when you push it, it brings up a second screen and asks to you choose which door you meant to open.

If you are a person like me who has 2 doors to program, but you only use one of them with any regularity - this interface will quickly become a pain you have to do 2 clicks and make a decision every time you want to open your primary door.

I poked through the menus to see if I could disable the less frequenly used opener so the "one click" button was always my 4-times daily push of my home garage door. It looks like the only way to do this is to actually delete the second opener. This means I would have to reprogram it each once-a-month trip to my condo (a different kind of pain).

It is not a perfect system - but it did function flawlessly. I hope Tesla wil be open to changing the UI in future releases of the firmware.

Tdave said:

Graham, why don't you have your condo opener learn the same code as used at your main residence? Then the same code opens both doors.

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This is a great idea, but unfortunately it wouldn't work for us. The condo opener is for the communal gate leading to the carport that everyone uses - I can't change that code. I don't think it is the same system as my garage door at home either, so I am not sure I could do the opposite and change my home code to match it if I wanted to.

doug said:

They should update the firmware so that the Homelink uses the VDS's GPS and remembers which code to use at which location. This would be similar to how the onboard charger remembers what current to use.
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This is an even better idea. I will suggest it to Tesla and see what they say.