Wanted: Gate Mode

[bigsky]

My neighborhood gate uses a remote control like a garage door opener and it works. I programmed it using the remote, no where near the gate itself. No learn button. Our gate isn’t fancy enough to be automatic.

What I do wish is for the location to be able to be programmed on both sides of the gate. The button to open on the dash comes on before I get to the gate so I can open it going in before getting to the gate but when I’m leaving the button doesn’t show until I stop at the gate, which at that point its opening anyway because I ran over the magnetic sensors. 1rst world? Yeah probably, but still would be nice. Our gate is sssssssssssssssllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so hitting the button before getting to the gate is helpful. And yes, I know I can hit the garage icon on the screen, again, 1rst world…….

I see what you mean. The automatic closing of the gate behind you. The Teslas can automatically open the community gate for me as I come to it (had to program the Teslas while parked right outside the gate to make them gate-location aware and work automatically), but that's right, they do not close the gate one going through. Gate is auto-close.

My last and only remaining ICE, 21 years old, which my R1S sent to death row, had the gate programmed into the vehicle homelink just fine, even if no auto opening.
My Rivian R1S is the only one with the dubious distinction of requiring me to carry along the gate remote that I received to operate it. This and yours definitely are must-fix features!

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[KBabione]

Is the Subaru you mentioned an EV or ICE?

It's an ICE so it creeps when in drive...

 

[DRJ564]

Can you program the gate twice and have two seperate prompts? Rivian supports programming up to 16 devices. I imagine 99.99% of owners will not hit the limit.

I didn’t think of programming it twice. I think that may work.

Thanks

 

[GA_Rivian]

Double pull the door handle to open it before it's unlocked.

Worked like a champ, solved the problem, Thanks! RRTFM

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