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I have one of those and trust me, you do not want it. I was excited about it when we bought the house, but: 1. The remote control range is terrible. Both of
by wolrah 3y ago
I have one of those and trust me, you do not want it.
I was excited about it when we bought the house, but:
1. The remote control range is terrible. Both of our remotes regularly fail to operate the door from less than a car length in to the driveway, through a normal garage door in a normal wood framed home, even with fresh batteries.
2. EVERY control accessory is proprietary, even the wall button. Our house came with the button missing and it can't be replaced with just a normal button. The entire line is out of production as well so the only options for replacement are expensive NOS. Likewise for the keypad and remotes, there are no third party replacements that are compatible and the first party stuff is out of production.
3. The app doesn't work, it won't even detect the opener. Because even the button is proprietary I can't even install an aftermarket controller.
The Ryobi opener has some great ideas like the accessory ports and the support for a battery backup using a battery many of us already have, but they went out of their way to make it worse than any other opener on the market in multiple ways and then abandoned their users. I'm going to be replacing mine with a simple dumb Genie or similar with a DIY controller hooked to the wall button port as soon as we get some garage work completed.
- brightball 3y agoYikes. Well, I feel better now. Guess that's why they discontinued it.
- wolrah 3y ago> Yikes. Well, I feel better now. Guess that's why they discontinued it. My understanding is that the discontinuation was actually over patent issues or something in that general area.
- dylan604 3y agoIn my personal experience with Ryobi products, I would have been equally served buying from Harbor Freight. At least the prices would have been cheaper for an item that is expected to be a crap shoot on it working. Ryobi batteries have been known to be badly manufactured so a newly purchased battery will not charge. If you take the time to research it and call (no webform for this), they will ask for serial numbers and send you a replacement to be delivered. If there’s a known batch with defects, recall the damn products.
- wolrah 3y agoFor what it's worth my experience has been the opposite. I bought one of their multiple tool bags back in the mid-00s and I'm still using all the original tools as well as a few more I've purchased since. The original NiMH batteries are all toast, but the tools run better on the new lithium batteries than they ever did on the NiMHs. I have about 8 years on my first set of lithium batteries and those are still going strong too. When I bought my house I was planning to get in to Ryobi's yard tool ecosystem since my experience with their 18v tools had been so good, but the garage door opener experience was enough to give me a push to eGo.