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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by trapper189:

Don’t make the keypad code the same as your alarm code and/or gate code.

Use "1234" -- it's easy to remember.

Good advice there for the oldsters!

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by trapper189:

Don’t make the keypad code the same as your alarm code and/or gate code.

Use "1234" -- it's easy to remember.

1234? That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

Had one on our front porch for the eighteen years we have lived in this house. Never used it, have tested it a few times, always forget to swap batteries.

Our garage doors also answer to our phones, as well as the garage door openers and the thingy in our vehicles, so we don't, as you've probaby gathered, use the porch pad.

I don't recall if the pad came with the new doors we had Genie install when we first moved in here, but, if it wasn't free, or real cheap, I'd have likely skipped it.

Bob

But, if I can remember, I'll swap batteries in the thing tomorrow.

I'm in the MyQ camp as well, and decided to mount a Kiddie lock box "key locker" to the garage instead of the external keypad.

It holds the a key to the side door (detached garage) and to the house. Comes in handy every now and then.

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:

1234? That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

I see what you did.

I thought everybody had an outdoor keypad .

It's extremely common, but not universal.

When I replaced my opener several years ago I installed one that has a wireless one and I use it often as I don’t leave an opener in my vehicle. Mine also has an app so that I can open the door with my phone from anywhere.

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:

1234? That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

Nope. I thought that everybody knew that luggage is supposed to be "999."

Have had these for years, love it. MyQ a further upgrade I really like, especially for the notices of doors left open and ability to close remotely. Only needed once, but it was nice.

I also have a key buried in yard in one of those fake sprinkler head thingies. In case I've locked the door to house at the same time I can't get into the garage. Between all that and the battery backup on opener, I'm getting in!

I think(??) the 1234 was a joke, but if you want to make it easy to remember try using the year of the car in garage, or especially helpful if multiple bays. BTW, my cars are all 1942 models...

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It is as secure as the handheld opener in your car,

I would strongly disagree with this. Hacking the keypad on a floating code opener is going to be very difficult, since you couldn't re-pair it. Leaving a handheld opener in a car outside is a terrible idea IMHO, since all you have to do is break a window, or open door. Most Homelink systems in cars now require power to be on for the same reason.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Garage doors are notoriously unsecured… The biggest element being the disconnect pull under opener. Super easy to grab that thing with a wire/code hanger and unlock your garage. (Gaining access to your house through the interior door.)

This was my thinking, it’s like worrying about the lock you put on your chain link fence.

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Originally posted by selogic:
I thought everybody had an outdoor keypad .

There's only one anywhere near where I live, so it's not common here.

We use a key pad, for years. This was well before Wi-Fi options were available. I had to replace the keypad recently. I realized the opener had wifi. I sent up up my MyQ feature. Rather than setting emergency neighbors or select others myq access they use the keypad and I can see it on my phone when they use it.

My Samsonite brief case with the little turn dials was 999 it was supposed to be a secret.

I was going to suggest you just buy a better quality lock. But that reminds me, time to WD40 the keyways again. Needs to happen every 10 years or so. Probably a bigger risk than someone picking a good quality lock.

I have always had one, but in my new house, went with MyQ. I have been very happy with it.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Garage doors are notoriously unsecured… The biggest element being the disconnect pull under opener. Super easy to grab that thing with a wire/code hanger and unlock your garage. (Gaining access to your house through the interior door.)

around here they just take the garage door remote from your car. Much less effort

I've heard of several break ins where the criminal got ahold of the remote. Normally from a car parked in the driveway.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Garage doors are notoriously unsecured… The biggest element being the disconnect pull under opener. Super easy to grab that thing with a wire/code hanger and unlock your garage. (Gaining access to your house through the interior door.)

around here they just take the garage door remote from your car. Much less effort

I've heard of several break ins where the criminal got ahold of the remote. Normally from a car parked in the driveway.

I worked occasionally with an ex-con who had done a few years for burglary and decided he didn't want to live that way anymore. He got an AA degree in electronics and went to work as a Technician...one of the best I've ever worked with.

Anyway, at lunch the first day I worked with him he told me he was an ex-con and wanted me to know about it so I didn't find out from someone else.

He burglarized houses and he told me he always went in through the Garage door, closed it and then usually the door to the house was unlocked but if it wasn't, there were almost always tools in the garage to break in with.

Got a great education on how to break into houses from him...and simultaneously how to avoid having someone like him break in through my garage.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Garage doors are notoriously unsecured… The biggest element being the disconnect pull under opener. Super easy to grab that thing with a wire/code hanger and unlock your garage. (Gaining access to your house through the interior door.)

around here they just take the garage door remote from your car. Much less effort

I've heard of several break ins where the criminal got ahold of the remote. Normally from a car parked in the driveway.

This is exactly why I do not leave a remote in my vehicle. All they have to do is break the window and now they have access to everything in my garage. So I use the app on my phone or the outside keypad to open my garage door.

A little tip regarding the wireless garage keypads that I happened to figure out by accident. I had one on my double garage door side and was thinking about getting another one for the single garage door side. Just for shits and giggles before I bought another keypad for the single side door I decided to see if the one I already had would operate both doors with a separate code for the second door. I knew that the unit could store more than one code but I had never seen it specified that codes could operate more than one door. It worked. I programmed two codes in to the keypad and each code operates one of the doors. I have seen many houses with two garage doors with two keypads so I guess this is not common knowledge that one pad can operate two doors.

All of this Wi-Fi stuff is great, and I have it myself but a lot of times I'm fooling around outside and it's handy to be able to open and close the garage door without going into my phone . Sometimes I don't even have my phone on me .