WHY EVO V7 NERO Garage Door Remote

No, and the difference matters. Every brand scrambles its rolling code with its own secret method, which is what stops the signal being recorded off your driveway and played back. The engineers at Sice Tech, who make the Why Evo, have worked those methods out, and in a number of cases have been given them by the manufacturers. All of it is written onto the chip inside every Why Evo before it leaves the factory. Think of the remote as a folder holding hundreds of those methods. Putting it into programming mode opens the folder; holding up your existing remote and pressing it points at the right one, like double-clicking a file; then you choose which button on the Why Evo that method lives on from then on. Your old remote is only being used to say which method — nothing is being cloned off it. The Why Evo writes itself a serial number of its own at that moment, so what you end up holding is a new remote in its own right, not a copy of your old one.

That depends on what your system uses, and it decides whether you need the ladder. Rolling code: yes. A rolling-code remote sends two things — a serial number that says which handset is talking, and a code that changes on every press. The motor keeps a list of the serial numbers it trusts and the last code it saw from each. Because the Why Evo gives itself a serial number of its own, the motor has never met it before and has to be taught it, the same as any other new remote. That is also exactly why it works so well: if it borrowed your old remote's serial number instead, the two handsets would be sharing one entry in the motor's memory and would keep knocking each other out of step. With its own entry, your existing remote carries on working normally. Older fixed code: no. Those systems check for one unchanging code, so if the Why Evo sends that code the motor cannot tell the difference and there is nothing to teach it. B&D Billion Code: often not, because the code does not change once it is set — worth trying before you get the ladder out.

Often, yes — and for a lot of people it is the first time that has been possible. Your gate and your garage door were almost certainly built by different companies, and normally that means carrying two remotes, because each one only speaks its own manufacturer's language. A Why Evo holds hundreds of those languages at once and lets you put a different one on each button, so one button can run the gate and the next can run the roller door, from the same handset. The same goes for two properties — a holiday house, a parent's place, the gate at a unit block. Gate motors in Australia are mostly European in origin, which happens to be exactly where the Why Evo comes from, so coverage there is very good, and most Australian garage systems are covered too. Tell us the make and model of each motor you want it to run and we will confirm before you buy.