Is Your Garage Door Opener Beeping?

Some garage door openers come with a timer option that lets you pick a time for your garage door to close automatically. If your garage door has this feature, you may hear a beeping noise coming from your garage door opener to let you know that your garage door is about to close. This is just a warning beep so that you can get out of the way. The timer may also be accompanied by flashing lights.

When the power goes out, you don’t want to be locked out of your garage from the outside. For this reason, many garage door openers are equipped with a backup battery that takes over in instances where the power is shut off. This allows you to still use your garage and open and close the door. That being said, when your garage door operates on backup power, it may beep to let you know that it’s using the backup battery. If your garage door opener is still beeping even after the power is back, it could mean that you are still using backup power.

As mentioned above, your garage door opener may switch to the backup battery if it loses power. Unfortunately, as with any battery source, your backup battery may only have a finite amount of power before you need to replace it. When your battery is close to running out of power, it may beep at you to let you know that you need to change the batteries, just like other devices in your home such as your smoke detectors.

It’s common knowledge that garage doors have a sensor that ensures the area below a garage door is clear before it closes. If there is something in the way such as your vehicle, a tool, or some other object, your garage door likely won’t close, even if you hit the button. Some garage doors may even beep when you try to close them. If that’s the case, make sure that everything is out of the way of the door, even if it seems like a very minor hazard.