Customer Reviews

Chamberlain CLK1 Clicker Universal Garage Door Opener with Keyless Entry

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

This opener works fine for a short time, but when it goes there is no middle ground. The built in (annoying) feature that freezes the keypad for 30 seconds if you hit the wrong number is the same feature that makes it impossible to recover when a number starts to go bad. If it doesn't work, you can't try again for 30 seconds and, after the 3rd try, it won't work again until you open the door from the inside. Mine worked correctly for less than a year. It is poorly made and poorly thought out.

Nowhere in the instructions are you advised to perform a very necessary step -- start by deprograming the Liftmaster garage opener AS WELL as deprogram the Clicker. As a computer literate operator I eventually tumbled to this solution after several futile installation attempts.

Of course, now you have to take your car visor remotes and reprogram them as well to the new Liftmaster code, but this is straightforward. Would it really have hurt the feelings of the instruction authors to have included these simple steps?

The cover that slides up to expose the buttons has no finger grips; you have to press hard against the cover and rely on friction. My Clicker is under a significant overhang, so I just leave the cover up. There are much more elegant designs.

The Clicker, however, works well. I note there are some durability questions, and only time will tell whether I encounter them. Battery issues that leave people unable to enter are probably the operator's fault - change the battery every Fall just as you do for smoke alarms. I managed to lock myself outside the house in winter weather, while in shirtsleeves, so my first step thereafter was to install a Clicker. I'm satisfied with the results, but dismayed by the incomplete instructions.

I've now purchased two of these openers and each went out after only a couple of years. When it was new, it worked well but be prepared, it will fail when you need it most. My most recent failure was when my wife went out walking and a storm came up. She was unable to get back in the house becasue "The Clicker" was dead.

I'm replacing mine today....but with another brand.

This product works fine and I programmed my opener to recognize it with no problems whatsoever. The first reviewer writes that it works great and then any button will work the door. He likely failed to read this in the instructions:
"Once programmed, the keypad remains active for 15 seconds. During this time you may stop, reverse or reactivate the door by pressing any number on the keypad."

In other words, once you have put in your code, any key you touch in the next 15 seconds will work the door. I've tried it on mine. It works just as the instructions say.

The instructions for the CLK1 are terrible. A year ago I installed it, stuggled for an hour with the programming instructions and finally got it to work. Today, it does not open the door, so it's back to the instructions. If I can't get it to work in five more minutes, you'll read about some nut going postal in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

mine worked about 16 months, then "the lights went out" it seems they made this thing to last that long according to all the other complaints. the problem with something like this is that when you discover it does not work, you are outside with no keys.

Mine worked only a few days until the battery died. When I replaced the battery, the opener no longer worked, even after I reprogrammed it.

Found the manual online: http://www.chamberlain.com/diy/clicker/

This opener worked ok for a year then failed while we were away on vacation and my mother was watching the house and dog.
She took him for a walk and came back to find that the door wouldn't open. I'll never hear the end of it now!! Buy some thing better or hard-wired and battery-less 25 min. on the help line and I got tired of "pushing 1 for other choises"
Junk and no suppport

After 18 months of sporadic use, the device stopped responding. Thinking it was likely time for a new battery I replaced that, but still no functionality returned; no lights on the keypad as there had always been before.

Good instructions and simple installation. However, from my way of seeing it these things should last longer.