Which Guardian opener do you have?
The Door Hero is not connected with Guardian. The steps here come from Guardian's own OL6.5 sheet and manual, and from Steel-Line sheets that cover Guardian openers.
The OL6.5 files, a coding sheet and a users manual for Model DCS2, are hosted on Steel-Line Automation's website. Steel-Line itself publishes a sheet headed Coding transmitters: Guardian, which gives the steps for the RD11.
The Guardian name also appears on openers sold as Boss, so the steps below fit only the models they name. For a Guardian opener not covered here, check the manual for your model. The general guide, how to program a garage door remote, explains coding for every make.
OL6.5 sectional opener: coding a remote or wall button
Find the yellow RADIO SET button
The Guardian sheet for the OL6.5 starts every coding job with it.
Press and release RADIO SET
The sheet says the opener beeps once. Its users manual adds that the OK LED flashes twice and a 30 second window opens.
Press the button you want to code
This can be a handset button or a wall button, according to the sheet. Press it inside those 30 seconds.
Listen for two beeps
Two beeps mean the button is coded. In the manual's version, the OK LED flashes once and the opener beeps twice.
The OL6.5 remote
The OL6.5 users manual lists a 433MHz fixed code transmitter with a 50m open field range, running on one 12V A23 alkaline battery. Check the battery in your remote against that before buying a spare, and have the opener's model with you before buying a new remote, so you can match it to what the manual lists.
Guardian garage door reset: clearing the OL6.5
To delete every remote, the OL6.5 manual says to press and hold the SET button for about 7 seconds, until the OK LED flashes and the opener beeps twice. Each remote you mean to keep then goes back in with the steps above.
Clearing is the step to take when a remote has gone missing, or when you have moved in and can't account for the old ones. Restarting an opener at the power, and the other things people call a reset, are in resetting a garage door opener.
RD11 opener
Steel-Line's Guardian sheet sets out the RD11 like this. Press and release RADIO SET, and the OK LED flashes twice to show you have 30 seconds. Press the remote, and the OK LED flashes once while the opener gives 2 beeps.
The RD11 keeps a maximum of 20 remotes and deletes the oldest when it needs room. To clear all of them, hold RADIO SET for 7 seconds.
Guardian OL4 and OL6
Steel-Line's HT4/WB13 coding sheet says the Boss OL4 and OL6 sectional openers may also be branded Guardian, and it codes them just as it does Steel-Line's own OL4 and OL6. Those steps, and how to clear each model, are in the Steel-Line remote guide. Openers carrying the Boss name have the Boss remote guide.
Children, beams and a clear doorway
The OL6.5 manual says to keep the remote control away from children, and that Guardian Operators advise a photo eye system on all garage doors. Try each newly coded remote or wall button with the doorway clear and the whole door in view. If the door runs unevenly or sounds wrong, stop using it and leave it to a door specialist.
What to tell the door specialist
- That the opener is a Guardian, and its model (OL6.5, RD11, OL4 or OL6)
- Whether a Boss or Steel-Line name shows anywhere on the unit
- What the OK LED and the beeps did when you tried
- Whether a wall button needs coding as well as the remotes
- Whether photo eye beams are fitted
What you can do, and what to leave
You can
- Code a remote or wall button on an OL6.5 or RD11
- Clear every remote when one goes missing
- Swap the remote's battery for the type the manual lists
Leave to a door specialist
- An opener that ignores RADIO SET altogether
- Adding photo eye beams
- Springs, cables or a door that has lost its balance
What we would do
Before holding SET to clear an OL6.5, bring every remote in the house into the garage and lay them out. The 30 second window after RADIO SET goes quickly, and coding them back one after another is easier when none has to be fetched.