Spent a couple frustrated afternoons trying to get my Acura MDX homelink to open my Liftmaster garage door. I followed the instructions in the manual, but no matter what I would do the garage door wouldn’t open.
As it turns out, there are two steps required to get this to work. You have to teach the MDX how to open the garage, AND you have to set the Liftmaster to accept the signal from your MDX. It’s the second part, about setting the Lifetmaster to accept the MDX signal that is not documented in the MDX user manual.
Here are the steps I found to get my Acura MDX to open my Liftmaster garage door via homelink:
1) Hold down the button on the garage remote AND the button on the car (pos #1) AT THE SAME TIME.
2) Stop when the red light in the car’s ceiling starts blinking fast. You’re done. This programs the garage signal into the homelink system.
3) Now park the car close to the gate. Very close.
4) Find the “learning button” on your Liftmaster. It’s supposed to be on the motor’s surface. For me, it was an orange button on the back face of the unit.
5) Press the learning button and run to the car. You have 30 seconds to get there are complete step 6.
6) Hold down the same button inside the car (pos #1) until it starts blinking fast.
I found these instructions on the AcuraZine forums at: http://rdx.acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?p=12322367#post12322367 . Thanks Levy for the help!
Freaking Jenius 
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May 5, 2012 at 12:33 am
Mike Zagger
This tip was a life saver! Nothing in the Acura manual or on the Lift Master website made this information available. Thank you!
September 10, 2012 at 12:18 am
Adam
Thank you so much! My wife and I couldn’t figure out what to do! Problem solved with your help!
October 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm
STEVE
THANKS!
December 31, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Steve Walsh
Thanks! Worked perfectly!
March 12, 2013 at 9:40 pm
victoria
You are awesome. It took both steps like you said bit of worked perfectly. Thank you.
April 30, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Trish
It worked sort of…now my garage door goes up and down on its own, or a neighbor puts it up and down with their remote on the same frequency! Back to looking for another method.
May 2, 2013 at 5:56 am
Derrick
Excellent!! Thank you! Worked!
July 26, 2013 at 2:35 pm
dtoddsmith
This solved the problem after the Acura instructions and the instructions on my garage door opener both failed. Worked on my TL, too. Thanks!
September 4, 2013 at 7:02 pm
China Frazier
Thanks so much. Spent all day yesterday trying to figure this puzzle out. Could not find ANYTHING in any of the RDX manuals about how to sync. Thank God for google and YOU!’
September 16, 2013 at 3:08 am
Ginna
Thank you so much!!
June 8, 2014 at 10:50 pm
Kay
Appreciate the help as well. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
August 10, 2014 at 12:38 am
Mike
Thanks for your excellent instructions! Works perfect with my 2015 Acura MDX and Genie Garage Door Opener. This is after two day frustration with manuals and useless HomeLink website and there phone hotline.
February 21, 2015 at 8:17 am
Rob
Your a beauty! I spent three days trying to program my MDX via the learning mode, because I didn’t have a working remote.it would not work.
It’s definitely a two step method. I got battery for the remote,and programmed it to the car using step one. I then used to learn button on the garage door to the car using steps five and six, eureka!
I would’ve never got there without your help, thank you! You’re a genius!
August 4, 2015 at 2:49 am
Sam
+1
Thanks!
August 29, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Larry
Man, hours of frustration before finding your post. Thank you!
November 7, 2016 at 1:30 am
allie liber
Thank you so much! I was losing my mind trying to figure it out. I appreciate people who take the time to put information like this out there.
December 16, 2016 at 11:50 pm
FrustratedWithHomeLink
I have tried this a million times now in my RL and the red light never starts flashing quickly… it remains a slow blink forever….
December 17, 2016 at 7:53 pm
AWC
OMG. That just saved me HOURS of effort. I programmed the Acura okay, no go on the remote. Acura went to the bother to create the flowchart telling us it must be a rolling code so we need to press the LEARN BUTTON and then doesn’t tell us where the heck that might be. Thanks Acura. Way to drop the ball. At least BLOGGERS know what’s going on! Thank you for this post. TY! TY!
January 21, 2017 at 5:22 pm
Mike
DUDE!!!! You rock I gave up on my old Accord trying to make it sink and just started using the garage door opener. When I got the new Acura I decided to look up Acura and Homelink together on Google and found your post. Very simple it’s amazing that you don’t find this information sitting somewhere else like in the owner’s manual of the garage door opener and the Homelink site. Cheers Mike
May 2, 2017 at 12:18 am
GP Cooper
What they don’t tell you is if you hold the “learn” button on the lift master for more than 5 seconds you clear it and none of your devices can communicate with it. Once the remote is programmed, you need only just touch the learn button for a half second, and it is in “learn” mode for a new device, not “erase mode”. If they had written that on a piece of paper it would have saved an hour.
November 1, 2017 at 4:11 pm
Nawbee
OMG!!!! You finally gave me ACCURATE instructions on how to program my garage door opener. FYI – This information also works on an old Craftsman Garage Door opener. Mine is from 2002, but it still works with my 2016 Acura MDX. Thanks so, so, so much!!
June 12, 2018 at 1:05 am
Valery Whitfield
Thanks so much, my acura tl manual left out the most important steps. This was a huge help!!