Have To Hold Garage Door Button Down To Close

When it is fully open or close left sensor solid red right sensor solid green.

Have to hold garage door button down to close.

When the door is up the sensor lights are off. The problem starts when you hit the button to close it and the door starts to close. I can immediately think of 3 possibilities. Garage door won t close using the remote but closes if you hold down the button on the wall.

But seems to be unable to close all the way. Tuesday june 26 2018 you are overriding the infrared beam sensor when you hold down the wall button continuously while the garage door is closing. Eye on both side of the door is not on i have to hold down the bottom in the garage to bring the door down. I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly.

Hold your transmitter up near the selected button pressing both the garage door remote and the selected in car transmitter button simultaneously. My genie garage door closes fine on all occasions but it won t open unless i hold the wall button down. You have something blocking the sensor. So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning.

This sets the in car transmitter to be your garage door openers make transmitter but you are not done. It could be something small. This causes real hassle as i can t use my remote opener to open the door as well. Garage door won t close using the remote but closes.

My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down. There are a pair of little plastic things at the bottom of the rail pointing at each other usually between 6 and 12 off the floor. Here is what happening. Woman uses makeup mirror to help fix garage door.

If i let go of the bottom the door stops.