This is happening with alarming frequency: Garage door openers stop working
Garage Door Openers Stop Working On Entire Missouri Block « CBS St. Louis.
It’s a puzzling phenomenon: On one street in St. Charles County, garage door openers have stopped working.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that no one knows what exactly is going on at Westhampton View Court. The garage door openers at all five homes on the court stopped working shortly after Christmas.
Garage door companies say interference problems are common at individual homes — they blame what is known as “frequency pollution.” But experts say having the issue extend to multiple homes is just plain weird.
“There is so much radio frequency pollution now,” Butch Martin, owner of Martin Door Co., told the paper. “Everything is wireless, and the more wireless stuff we get, the bigger the problem is going to get.”
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So, yeah, this is getting to be a common occurrence. Just last week, we reported on a similar case in Cambridgeshire, U.K. There are only so many frequencies that can be used, it is limited. Manufacturers may have to eventually come up with another way to program the devices. Meanwhile, we have to deal with ANOTHER form of pollution.
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