Question:
I just bought one of those X10 Stanley Garage Door Sensor kits. It
appears that the transmitter and the receiver need to be extremely close
together, like 3 feet, for this thing to work. My outlet for the receiver
is about 10 feet away from the door, will this thing ever work? What am I
doing wrong?
Answer:
After my garage door monitor receiver failed I got a new one. I noticed that
the range is quite less than that of my original one which was probably close
to 7 years old. I have my receiver mounted high on the ceiling where one of
the garage door opener's outlet is with the antenna pointing down. That made
the difference for me as I was having problems with the receiver if it was
plugged into a low wall outlet. BTW, the garage door monitor receiver is also
a regular X-10 receiver if you didn't know that.
