TOPENS HLR01 HomeLink Compatible Universal Gate Door Opener transmitters Remote Control Kit

I bought the Topens HomeLink receiver for my 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee in Nov 2024. The instructions were easy to follow and program the receiver. After programing my Jeep this system works great. You now have the luxury of using the HomeLink system that comes with most new vehicles.

I wasn't super excited I needed to buy something to make this work with our cars. But I looked into why Homelink is what it is and I get it. Bought one and it was a simple connect and worked right out of the box. The configuration in the cars was more about those than this device, but the receiver worked...for a while. After a couple months, one vehicle stopped working but I didn't pursue it because I still had the opener (one with the gate and one with the HLR01 - both still worked). Then it stopped working on the other vehicle. I contacted support and this is where I'm really happy. Evelyn responded quickly. She gave good information. I received actual instruction and feedback from the videos/picture I provided. We went through consecutive steps a little more than "turn it off and turn it on again" and the things that make someone somewhat knowledgeable feel like an idiot. After three short exchanges, a replacement was on its way. Arrived quick, installed just as easily as the first time, and we're off to the races again.

Works great on vehicles that have Homelink. Must have if don't want to keep getting out to open/close the gate. Very responsive to answer questions

Cut this apart and wired it to a couple Zigbee buttons and a buck converter to make an input in my Home Assistant setup that would let me use the extra HomeLink buttons to control exterior lighting. Works great for that. The fob is kind of cheesy, but it seems well made (and you'll only really need it to program your car). Range is decent - it easily reaches the street even when it's in the basement. If I were the manufacturer, I'd start marketing the bare board for this use through home automation channels.

I can't speak to long term reliability, as I just installed two of them, but I can speak to functionality as a general purpose garage opener retrofit, which is quite good. You will need to find a 12v adapter (some USB phone chargers will do that if you find the right pair). I have a pile to pick through that I have accumulated over the years, and they are easy to find and buy). They just have to run a reciever and a relay, so a 5w or better should be plenty. And you will need a garage door opener that uses either a normally open or normally closed "contact switch" (all of the garage openers I have had use normally open contact switched for the inside wall switch). The device has two relays, one that fires with the A button on the remote, and one that fires on the B button. And each relay has three contact terminals exposed. So you have two buttons that control two relays, and each relay can be hooked up to anything that needs to be momentary closed or momentary open as needed. I took it a step further, we have two garage doors, so I bought two of these. I hooked the first door up to one of these with the A relay, and the second door to another one of these with the B relay. Then I programmed both remotes to both openers. So the A button opens the first door, and the B button opens the second door, from either remote. Then I programmed the cars (2019 Audi and 2021 Volvo) homelink transmitters, which synced up nicely with the signal from the remotes. So works from the cars as well. So, for the money, I retrofitted two old openers that were really limited and that had falling apart remotes with these, and got 9 memory slots for openers (4 used now) and two nice compact decently built (it seems) new remotes. And the old remotes and openers continue working as they were. So, great for hacking up new life into old openers. Hopefully the opener and remotes hold up!