AutoCloser Automatic Garage Door Closer

Great little device for peace of mind. Very well packaged and came with EVERYTHING needed to install. Instruction booklet could use some editing, but good enough to get you through the install. The main unit only takes about 5 minutes to install. Wiring unit to garage door takes another 2 - 5 minutes depending on how long it takes to find the right wire combination. The disable button takes longer if you want to run it all the way over and next to your garage door button. However, the length of time that takes will probably depend on if you have any help, your attic, and how easy you can thread some wire up there. For me, it took another 30 minutes in the attic due to some extenuating circumstances in my attic. For some, this might only be a 5 minute job. In the end, I'm glad I took the time to do it right. If everyone in your household is tall enough to reach the garage door opener, you could simply velcro the delay button right there at the bottom and raise your arm to push the button. However, my wife is only 5', so I had to put it next to the garage door button. What I did was drill a hole into the ceiling next to the garage door opener, ran the included wire up and over to where I was going to come down, drilled another hole, and ran it down. I then untwisted the wire to make it neat and stapled it to the wall for a professional look. Then, painted over the wire to match wall and put some drywall stuff in the holes I made in the ceiling. If not for a unique thing going on in my attic, this would have taken me only 5 - 10 minutes in total. Painting and drywall repair took me another 5 minutes. There will come a time when you have to wire the unit into the garage door opener in the same place as the garage door button. I had six wire going into unit. Easiest way to figure out which is which is to simply pull one wire off/out and then go push the garage door button. If the door opens/closes, you did not find the right set yet. Put it back and pull another wire until you find it. Once you find the set, that's where the AutoCloser will wire into. So far, so good. Works as expected and I'm really feeling good about having it installed and knowing my garage door won't be left open all night accidentally.

The product comes with the sensor, reflector, wire, velcro, and instructions. It took me all of 30 mins and 3 tools (wire stripers, wire cutters and flat tip screw driver) to install it and that was only because I was taking my time. Basically it's a door open alarm that triggers the garage door to close via the same two wire connection used on the wall button. This is such a great idea that I wonder why the new openers don't come with it as a standard feature. You can change the time interval from 2 to 30 mins before it closes the door. Also, if you work in the garage and want the door to stay open there is a disable button that will turn it off. Once the doors closes and re-opens the auto closer is on again. It has a very high pitch beep to warn you before it closes and works with most every garage door opener out there. Great instructions and easy steps to get it installed. This is an very good product that works just the way it should and requires Zero modification of your current garage opener. Great Idea!

Revising my review now after months of attempting to use it. I had so many issues and failures, and the incessant beeping was so annoying I uninstalled it. I subsequently bought the Magic Closer Magic Closer it was installed in minutes and has been foolproof and reliable for going on three months. Cheaper and better. I have had this for a while and finally got around to installing. It was very easy, took about 15 minutes, and seems as if it will work fine. It has for testing at least. And I'll feel better having it as a failsafe. We try to be vigilant about closing the garage, but have forgotten twice and had thieves enter and rifle through our belongings. It is a good device, and while I do understand the loud beeping and the half-close + full close, I do not get the full close, re-open, delay, then closing again operation? Once it is down and closed, why not stay there? That is how it works by design: after the set delay of being open: unit begins beeping for 30 seconds partially closes and comes back to full open fully closes a few seconds later but then it immediately fully opens again! it beeps for another 20 or 30 seconds while fully re-opened it then finally closes and stays closed and, of course, it beeps the whole time, *AND* for thirty seconds after it is fully closed for good measure. I am sure there is a government regulation requiring this level of ridiculousness, but seriously, why fully close the door only to fully re-open and re-close AGAIN? Is this in case you accidentally trap a thief inside and you are required to let them escape, because you created an attractive nuisance and they just had to burgle you, and you are violating their rights as victims in commission of a crime by closing the door on them? I am guessing such a lawsuit probably led to this weird close/re-open/close operation. But even given all that strangeness, and what seems like a very unnecessary step in the operation, it does seem like a good product and seems to do what it says it will.