Having an attached garage door can make you and your home be a target for burglars and thieves. most garage doors are the easiest and more favored method of entry by burglars as they not only have lots of re-sellable items including car tools, unused equipment, lawnmowers and other high valued items but also because most garage doors have little security including having an emergency release lever which can be used to gain access to your garage and eventually house.
Some of the most recommended methods that you can use to enhance your bargain garage doors opener security include; employing the use of a dip switch, rolling code and doing away with the emergency release lever.
Doing Away With the Emergency Release Lever
Because some burglars will use the coat hanger technique to release the emergency lever and gain access to your garage, it is always advisable to disable it. Emergency release lever in the garage door is meant to assist the garage owner access the garage in the event the automatic garage door does not work or in the event of electricity loss.
In case one feels that doing away with the emergency lever is extreme, they can lock the release lever. This can be done by use of a plastic cable to tie the lever to the carriage assembly that it is attached to
Employing the Use of A DIP Switch
Dual Inline Package (DIP) switch is another effective way to improve your garage door opening security. A Dual Inline Package switch works on the principle of transmitter and receiver patterns. To get the garage door opened the pattern of the transmitter (remote) must be the same as the pattern in the receiver. The DIP switch usually has eight patterns and therefore has a possible combination of 256 codes.
One shortcoming of the DIP switch is that the user has to regularly change the patterns or be vulnerable to signal hackers. In addition, burglars using the latest technology can run the possible 256 combination (which can take a few minutes) and gain entry to your garage.
Use of a Rolling Code
With over 100 billion possible combinations, the Rolling code is the most foul prove and secure method you can use to enhance integrity of you garage door. Also known as the hopping code, it works by generating new codes every time you press the remote as both the receiver and the transmitter have a similar random number generators
When you press the transmitter (remote), the code signals it sends out should be the picked by the receiver which accepts it if it has similar codes and resulting in opening of the bargain garage doors. Once the code is accepted, a new code is generated and the old one won’t work anymore. The rolling code method prevents signal replay hackers as the generated code can only be used once.
The rolling code has been made with modern and latest signal encryption tools, is easy to use and guarantees your bargain garage doors security