4 Common Safety Senor Issues Why Your Genie Garage Door Opener Won't Close

It's super annoying when you're trying to leave your house and the garage door won't close. Most of the time it's because of a safety sensor problem. This video, I show you 4 very common safety sensor issues that will cause your Genie garage door opener not to close. Each one of these 4 fixes is super simple to do and will have you up and running in no time!

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[garagedoorgenius]

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[hollysamson]

Thank you! I checked and one of my wires was disconnected. I had been cleaning out my garage and must have hit it! Thumbs and thanks…I am a do fix it yourself woman. I love YouTube videos, you saved me money! I am 71 years old and am always trying to fix something. I have a clogged cellar drain I am trying to fix. I dug my ditch out but think my pipe is clogged!

[cliffsmith-kmui]

Wow-thank you genius for helping me solve my Genie safety sensor issues. I tried for two hours to fix the problem but nothing worked. Came inside the house to order new sensors but checked your video first and tried switching the green and red sensors and that fixed it! My problem started when I installed a new Genie garage door opener, never thought about the new one causing interference. I just subscribed to your channel-thanks for taking the time to do this video for us do it yourselfers. 😀

[EvonDee]

Thank you soooo much!🙏🏽 Put the garbage bin out and then the garage wouldn't close.😏 You were the 2nd video I watched, and I paused it after the bins/sensor hit part. And voilà, it worked! Before that I tightened screws, used a q-tip to clean the sensor. You saying the green was the issue was on point. Much appreciated!😊

[MrRockstar]

OMG! After a couple weeks of troubleshooting, you said something today that got me to check something I hadn't checked yet... you said make sure there are no staples in the wire. As soon as you said that, I paused the video took out all the staples that were holding the wire and viola!! The damn staples were causing interference! The green light was on one side, but the red light wasn't coming on the other side. As soon as I removed all the staples, the red light turned on. Thank you!!

[rajmankad]

Red off green on in my case. Power cycled the unit and worked! Thank you!

[Christie]

Thanks for the video. Just fixed our garage door and my husband think I am amazing.

[dougkenyon]

Came here looking for the interference problem. Same exact scenario on a new install, green to the left of red in the middle. Weird stuff like touching the sensor makes it go solid red. I figured it was some weird grounding issue but this makes sense. I will give this fix of swapping a try tomorrow!

[zijjdlu]

Thanks for this video. After watching 4 or 5 other videos trying to troubleshoot got it in 5 minutes after this video. The comment about the green light usually being the problem vs. the blinking red helped a lot!

[charleshystad]

I have two garage doors and I updated the more commonly used one to a newer and different brand. As soon as I did this the other garage door would not act right. It was blinking saying interference but I didn't know exactly what they meant by interference until I watch this video. I swapped the safe t sensors and she was happy again. Thank you I would never had though to swap the sensors. While I do not believe in coincidence and knew something with the new opener was messing with the old one. I learned now that those little sensors can mess with each other.

[frankbogart]

Thank you!!! The bent sensor from garbage can was the problem. Saved me so much agro..

[Kartik]

I had the 2nd one, pointed downwards. moved a bit and it works perfectly.

[highcrimes]

Damn! You just saved me a service charge! My Genie garage door wouldn't function for two days so I got on a ladder and unplugged it a couple of times. No response. Could not figure what was going on and couldn't solve the problem so I called the company. A technician was scheduled the next day. So it's 3:30 in the morning and I'm awake and I'm thinking why don't I check YOUTUBE? Your first suggestion was spot on! Turns out I'd had a young relative clearing out some dead leaves in the front yard and afterwards, he placed the broom and dustpan in front of the sensor! Thanks again!

[shawnrobb]

Thanx for the last one dude, was spinning my wheels trying to figure it out!

[mwoaf]

i had problems closing my garage and i went through all the common solutions. but this video helped me fix it. Thank you!!!

[gregbuescher]

Thank you so much! You gave me the exact fix and saved me $125 for a service call!!!!

[BearMountainBuilds]

Huge help. Solved the interference problem thanks to you. Much appreciated

[IcarusVic]

You nailed it! I couldn't figure out what Genie meant by interference and it happened shortly after I had one of my openers replaced. I switched the green and reds on one door and went from Green Red Green Red to Green Red Red Green and problem was solved! I was getting real tired of manually opening my damn door every day before work. Thanks man!

[MoisesGuerrero]

Thanks, Your Video helped me a lot, I had the problem of the 3 blinks, I did what you recommended and it worked. Thank you

[informationmaven]

Hey Genius, you saved me money with the three blink interference! I never would have thought of the other sensor being my "interference" but the cornhole game boards were reflecting the light in between the two doors! Thank you!