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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about this this is the
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Chamberlain Universal mini remote garage
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door opener it's a little two button guy
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you can see it's designed to be a
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keychain or key fob easy to carry easy
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to put in a pocket if you're going for a
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run or you're taking the dog for a walk
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or you want to loan it to a friend who's
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visiting you super easy it's nice having
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two different buttons means you can have
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two garage door openers you can have
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security gate there's certain kind of
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lighting it can work with for outside
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lighting um I love the idea of like I
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pushed the button my Christmas lights go
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on not sure I'll hook that up this year
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but I could and that's what's cool and
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this also it's from Chamberlain they
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make garage doors but it actually is
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compatible with Chamberlain LiftMaster
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Craftsman Genie linear Stanley Overhead
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Door all the major players turns out
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that's really helpful cuz I have a
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Craftsman garage door opener and it's a
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smart internet friendly one and one of
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the great things about it is that the
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learn button isn't on the back of the
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Drive Unit like you can see in this
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picture which is just sort of a stock
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photo of a typical garage door opener
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but what I have is on my Craftsman all
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of the smarts are actually on this
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little control panel so I was going to
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show you on the video how to program
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this but it turned out that as I was
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experimenting I got it to work and you
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can't unlearn things so it's like at
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what exactly what you would want your
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children to be at school once they learn
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things they know it forever this thing's
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really smart so here's what I did is I
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pushed the button for 10 seconds and
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then a little light went solid right so
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while that was then going on I went on
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here or you could go on your own garage
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door and push the learn button then you
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pick which of the two buttons you want
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to program push it twice and then wait
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took about 20 seconds as it cycled
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through a couple of different code
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options and then finally my garage door
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started opening and all I had to do was
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then immediately as soon as it started
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to work push that button again and then
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it was locked in cuz it was stepping
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through different possible codes and
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then it said oh okay this one works I'll
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save it and now as I can demonstrate I
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push this button and can you see the
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rise and illumination as my garage door
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goes up I'll push it again we'll stop
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there and yeah see now it's so much
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brighter maybe we'll close it again just
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so that the light goes back to where we
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started there that's a little better but
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super easy to work with and this felt
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like it might have been a little more
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complicated than even a regular garage
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door opener but this is like a 5 or 10
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second programming task plus maybe the
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time it takes for it to cycle through um
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people love these I've looked at all the
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reviews online the only people that have
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have problems with this are actually the
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ones that don't read the instructions
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and then they can't get it to work but
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but I will tell you based on my
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experience with this it's crazy easy so
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Universal programming two buttons Sports
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two devices keyring design how much
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right so oh but it has like these two
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little watch batteries in it that are
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supposed to last a super long time and
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frankly since the only time it's
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actually doing anything is when you push
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a button I would guess these batteries
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are going to last a couple of years and
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it comes with built-in batteries so at
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some point I will probably have to
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replace them but I'm expecting that's a
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couple of years down the road and how
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much well at chamberlain.com these run
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$44.99 but if you check out amazon.com
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they're 3866 with free shipping so
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either way around 40 bucks and there's
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smaller universal remotes but this one's
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really well-designed and wellb built and
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I like Chamberlain and I feel like this
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is going to be a reliable product for a
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long time so this is Dave whoa hold on
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we almost got out of this video without
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will too so thank you now back to where
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we were this is Dave Taylor this is the
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Chamberlain Universal mini remote and
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I'll catch you in my next video thanks
