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Garage door intermittenly working.
If the batteries in your transmitter are dead the transmitter won t be able to send a signal to your garage door to open.
Clutter or obstructions that block the sensor are the first problems to look for if your door won t close or in extreme cases open at all.
The solutions firstly check that you re using it within the range required for your opener.
If the remote works only when held within a few feet of the motor unit rf interference is probably the problem.
Locate and eliminate the source of the rf interference.
As with many such problems the most common problem is the simplest one the motor unit has been unplugged.
When the garage door opener works intermittently the logic board may be experiencing radio frequency rf interference from nearby sources such as security lights ham radios and some electronics.
First check the sensor lights.
First check to see if the transmitter on the wall inside your garage still opens your garage door when pressed.