Meso garage door opener mod

Has anyone used meso stealth pro shift nob to open and close the garage door. Been thinking of doing this but i haven't been able to find any write ups lately. Can anyone help me out please. And for those who have any type of hidden remote button does window tint mess with the range of the signal?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/ect-stealth-pro-shift-knob.597659/page-110

It's in there somewhere, also some youtube videos on it

 

I did the garage opener mod on my truck with a button to the left of the column...no noticeable difference in range.

https://youtu.be/eFaqc8LkOa4

 

Although I designed this for use on motorcycles, it's adaptable for any vehicle with high beams.

My Suzuki C90 has a "flash-to-pass" high beam switch. I made this circuit to have the high beam trigger my garage door opener, which I hid inside the headlight bucket. The idea is that the resistor/capacitor timer would energize the small relay for only a split second, and trigger the door opener. You could adapt the same idea by tapping into the high beam wire to one of the headlights. The reason for the R/C timer is so when you need to use the high beams, the door opener isn't sending out a signal the whole time. It only energizes the relay for a second or so. My other motorcycle (Bandit 1200) does not have a flash-to-pass button, but the circuit is wired identically. To use it, I only have to flip the low/high beam switch to open the door.

Three caveats to the idea;
1. If you toggle the high beam switch too soon, or if the door doesn't open on the 1st try, you have to wait a few seconds before trying again because the capacitor needs to discharge.
2. If you pull up to your house with the high beams on, you need to turn them off for a few seconds, then toggle the high beam switch to open the door.
3. If you park your truck in the garage with the high beams on, next time you turn on the ignition, the door will open (I've done this too many times).

The only tricky part to the project is opening the garage door remote, identifying the two points that trigger the signal; and soldering the leads to them.

A benefit to this idea is, if you keep the remote in a weatherproof housing tucked near the grill, the range of the opener should increase.

Originally, I used a voltage regulator (LM7803) on the circuit board to allow the bike's battery to power the opener, but the starter pulls so many amps trying to turn over the v-twin, for a split second, the battery voltage to the regulator fell below the required voltage threshold and zero voltage got through. As such, the "rolling code" opener I use lost it's program code. I went back to using the coin battery on the opener and there's been no problems. It's been working off the same battery for over 4 years now. FWIW, if/when I sell my other bike and recover it's opener & circuit board, I'm going to wire it into my Tacoma.

 

Wow. I'm not an electrician by any means. So, there will be more to learn than I thought. I know it's probably not too complicated, but I don't understand things like what a relay is for.

 

I did mine

 

That's the same remote I have! So, does that plug go to the switch?

 

Mine goes to the below

DIY Stealth Shift Knob KIT - Limited Runs – MESO CUSTOMS LLC

The door opener lives behind the HVAC control next to the radio