[Blue_IDA]

To preface this post, I have NOT been drinking tonight…..
So I pull into my garage this evening, with the usual warning signals telling me I’m close to surrounding garage items. Nothing unusual.
I put the car in park. I am changing the charging settings to 80%, as I’m going to charge tonight with my Mustart charger. Car is on, in park.
All of a sudden, a new alarm starts dinging….. lights are flashing inside the car. I’m kinda worried as it was an unfamiliar noise. As I’m sitting there in disbelief, my garage door closes. On its own. Nobody else in the garage. Clicker in its usual position clipped to the visor.
Any ideas? Time to call the Long Island Medium??

 

[jgoodnough]

it's vaguely reminiscent of what happens when the car is in drive assist and the driver fails to hold onto the steering wheel. The car decelerates to a stop, lights begin flashing and the horn blows on and off. All except for the part where you were sitting stopped in Park, and there was no horn blowing.... 😜

 

[Don]

I was gonna say, "Better possessed than repossessed" . . . . but now I'm not so sure!

Don

 

[Blue_IDA]

it's vaguely reminiscent of what happens when the car is in drive assist and the driver fails to hold onto the steering wheel. The car decelerates to a stop, lights begin flashing and the horn blows on and off. All except for the part where you were sitting stopped in Park, and there was no horn blowing.... 😜

Exactly what I thought after watching a few videos last night. I was convinced that was it, but still there’s the closing garage door to explain…..😝

 

[Ben V]

sounds like an interference with homelink

 

[Froggy]

Well it is October. Maybe after Halloween 👻 it will clear up for a year.

 

[Emax]

Could just be the emergency button on the key fob. I've had the alarm go off once or twice if I happened to twist or contort myself in just the right way (never intentionally, of course, and non-reproducible ).

YMMV.

 

[tennr]

To preface this post, I have NOT been drinking tonight…..
So I pull into my garage this evening, with the usual warning signals telling me I’m close to surrounding garage items. Nothing unusual.
I put the car in park. I am changing the charging settings to 80%, as I’m going to charge tonight with my Mustart charger. Car is on, in park.
All of a sudden, a new alarm starts dinging….. lights are flashing inside the car. I’m kinda worried as it was an unfamiliar noise. As I’m sitting there in disbelief, my garage door closes. On its own. Nobody else in the garage. Clicker in its usual position clipped to the visor.
Any ideas? Time to call the Long Island Medium??

Do you have a remote garage door open/closing device such as GoControl, Linear, Chamberlin? These devices have a built-in strobe and will flash for about 5 seconds before opening or closing the door. This is a safety feature to warn those in the garage that there is going to movement activated remotely.

As a side note: if you have integrate any of these with Apple HomeKit, then the remote button will show in CarPlay when you are near your home. In this case, I called mine "Pod Bay Doors" (nod to Space Odyssey)... "Hey Siri, open the pod bay doors."

 

[Blue_IDA]

Do you have a remote garage door open/closing device such as GoControl, Linear, Chamberlin? These devices have a built-in strobe and will flash for about 5 seconds before opening or closing the door. This is a safety feature to warn those in the garage that there is going to movement activated remotely.

As a side note: if you have integrate any of these with Apple HomeKit, then the remote button will show in CarPlay when you are near your home. In this case, I called mine "Pod Bay Doors" (nod to Space Odyssey)... "Hey Siri, open the pod bay doors."
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I do have a Chamberlain which uses the My Q app. Don't think this will integrate with anything I currently use, but I love your Pod Bay reference.

 

[tennr]

I do have a Chamberlain which uses the My Q app. Don't think this will integrate with anything I currently use, but I love your Pod Bay reference.

Depending on your model you may be able to leverage this... Apple HomeKit Garage Door Opener Integration | myQ