A garage door remote is used to open the garage door opener from a distance, making your life a lot easier by sparing you the trouble of opening and shutting the garage gate manually. You can use it to open the garage gate both from the inside and outside of the garage. The remote has made life a lot easier. Now you do not have to get out of your car, open the garage door, get back inside the car, park it inside the garage and then go back to shut the garage gate. All you now have to do is simply open the door with the click of a button from inside the car.

Most garage door remotes come with either a single button or multiple buttons. A single button is basically for switching the opener on to open the door and vice versa. Some remotes with multiple buttons provide you with some other options as well for instance if you would like to select a specific opening speed, or if you would turn on the garage lights from inside the car or in case of multiple garage doors and openers, each button on the remote would send signals to the particular door opener to activate it. Some garage door remotes are like keypads to facilitate punching in a confirmation code before opening the door.

Garage remotes usually operate on radio signals and people have shown some security concerns related to radio signals frequency. A garage door remote can be used to activate some other door opener which works on the same frequency. To overcome this problem, most of the garage door remotes and openers now come with a specific code. If the code that you punch on your garage door remote or the code that is transmitted through its radio frequency does not match with your garage gate opener's, then it will not respond and the gate will not open, thereby reducing the security threats considerably.

A sensor can also be installed as a garage door remote. The sensor in your car would transmit signals to the sensor in the opener and activate it. By doing so, you would not have to worry about losing your remote at all.

These remotes are very important equipments that you cannot afford to lose unless you want to be stuck inside or outside the house for sometime. It can be extremely frustrating and annoying when you have to go somewhere and are in a hurry but have to fumble around in your pockets or around the car looking for the garage gate remote. Often you or other family members can accidentally lose the remote. This is especially true for houses with small kids, who more than often misplace the remotes like a lot of other stuff. For such cases, it is very important that you keep a spare remote with you.

Such remotes are very easy to find in the garage door installation Santa Ana and even if you cannot find the same remote model as your opener, they can still be modified to match the frequency of your garage gate opener. Universal remotes are also available in the market which can be used to open all sorts of door openers inside your house. In that case, if you have three or four door openers inside the house or your commercial building, you will not have to keep track of all the remotes but can instead operate all openers through one universal garage door remote.