Customer Reviews

Chamberlain CLDM1 Clicker Garage Door Monitor

5 star:		(81)
4 star:		(39)
3 star:		(14)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(24)

 

 

My garage is a separate building about 15' away from my house, so I needed something to tell me if I left the door open. I'm using this about 100' away from the transmitter - a bit too much for it. It worked fine at first, but then would lose signal on occasion. I noticed that the receiver had an antenna but the transmitter didn't. I opened up the transmitter and found the antenna "loop" - I simply soldered on a piece of wire of the appropriate length (this uses 390mhz, so I used a 1/2 wave length of wire, which is 14.4 inches). Works perfectly now!

It isn't the most robust device, but it was worth the money spent on it. The sensor attaches to the garage door with sticky back velcro. This makes it easy to remove to change the battery. I put it on the top of the door, so it will indicate open as soon as possible. Range seems sufficient. The only unknown is how long the transmitter battery will last. It uses a nickel sized lithium cell.

Update 2006-10-25: I still don't know about the longevity of the transmitter battery (still going strong), but I have loved this unit for the past few months. It has become a little "confused" two times over the last 6 months. It would indicate open, when the garage wasn't. I unplugged the base unit and immediately plugged it in and all was fine. I would purchase this again and wish I had done so sooner.

I received this item three weeks ago. Installation was easy and the unit worked as specified. I didn't have a problem with any distance, however my garage door is only about 50 feet away from the base unit.

You do have to plug the base unit into a wall outlet and it has a slightly bulky transformer. I didn't know that when I purchased it. I thought both units were battery operated. So you can't just hang the base unit up on a wall in the house somewhere.

Overall I gave it four stars.

This monitor started failing after a month (of which, unfortunately, we were away for over 2 weeks). After testing and re-programming and changing batteries 3 times at $2.50 a pop, it was apparent that the sending units were defective. Called Chamberlain, who agreed that the sending units (sensors) were defective. THEY WILL NOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU IF YOU BUY THROUGH AMAZON!! THESE PRODUCTS DO NOT HAVE A FACTORY WARRANTEE! You have 30 days to return defective products to Amazon. After that you have garbage.

Except for a couple of times when the units stopped communicating with each other, the system works as per advertisement.

When the inside-house unit loses its status with the garage door unit you simply unplug the DC power from the top of the unit for a second and then plug it back in. The communications resets and works again. 99% of the time it works but that 1% of the time you need to reset the system.

Helpful hints:
Use a clean flat surface to stick the garage door unit. Do not stick it on the door itself...use a metal part close to the edge.

Be careful of inserting the battery correctly. The documentation was a little vague on this point.

Esthetically, it leaves a lot to be desired. They never mention the ugly little antenna wire on the inside-house unit. But...that doesn't negate the usefulness of the system.

Suggestions for improvement:
Make the red LED light a little brighter.

Went ahead and purchased this inspite of past stated concerns about range issues.I purchased two units and both work equally poorly.I tried several locations but if the receivers and transmitters are not in the same room together there is the flashing green and red signals indicating no contact with the transmitter. I frankly think that it is more likely an electrical interference problem with these units than a range problem.We have a fairly high tech house with multiple wireless items eg.Security System,Internet,Cable etc. I think that if you have multiple signals being transmitted in your home that it simply interferes with the operation of the 'hook up' between the transmitter and receiving unit.I suggest that you take this into careful consideration BEFORE you purchase one of these units.Mine are both going back to Amazon today.

I purchased this item foolishly ignoring the warnings of other reviews. We have a small house (1550 sq feet) so I thought that the range wouldn't be an issue. WRONG! The distance from my garage door to the monitor is probably about 45 feet. The monitor CONSTANTLY loses contact with the transmitter. There are two walls (well, really one wall and a door) between the transmitter and receiver. Not much interference. I have tried a couple of locations, but in my case there is no were practical to mount the receiver making this item is pretty much worthless.

I think the range is an issue. My monitor blinks red & green when door is closed, and I estimate the range from the door to be 60 feet. When monitor brought closer to about 40 feet, works o.k. Problem is intermittent, though I'm not sure why.

I am very pleased with the clicker. Installation was easy. It has worked very well since installation. We've already had several incidents when it informed us that our garage door was left open. I would recommend this product to anyone that has garage door. Well worth the money!!

The receiver is supposed to work all over the house, but we found that it doesn't work much past the back the the garage where the sender is mounted. pretty useless at that range.