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How Do I Control an Electric Roller Garage Door without a Remote?
For most roller garage doors which have remote handsets for control, you will have a receiver control box inside your garage which should also have some push buttons on it to send the door up or down as the remote handset does. This wall mounted control box often has a timed courtesy light too for convenience.
More and more these days customers are thinking about how they will really control their electric roller door. The industry has become lazy in just offering remote control handsets as ‘normal’ and with this remote control you also require compliant safety devices fitted, some of which are a little temperamental, like infra red beams when there is bright sunlight, etc…
For anyone who doesn't put their car in their garage and is thinking of an electric roller garage door, why not consider a simpler and more reliable push button control with no remote control, simply because you are walking in and out your garage all the time? Have a simple internal wall mounted push button by your side entrance and then consider a simple key switch for the outside too? No safety controls required (as long as you keep the controls in sight of the door) and no additional electronics to consider and possibly maintain?
When you ask yourself how you really walk around your house and switch things on and off, how many times do you use a remote control, apart from your television and even that is changing with Amazon voice assist now too? You can control your electric roller garage door if you want by voice and integrate a system like Somfy Tahoma and link to Alexa and similar devices. However for those who simply like the idea of an easier electric garage door operation but always walk to and from the garage then we think you ought to be using a button control and key for outside… Ditch the remote handsets, you only lose them anyway…
Click here to see out button controlled electric roller doors in the Samson Door shop
