Garage Door Needs Button Has To Be Held

Hold your transmitter up near the selected button pressing both the garage door remote and the selected in car transmitter button simultaneously.
Garage door needs button has to be held. This sets the in car transmitter to be your garage door openers make transmitter but you are not done. If i just press and release the button the door starts to close then reverses. When i returned from work today i pushed the button on my remote garage door opener but the door didn t budge. Why do i have to hold down the button to close the garage door.
Hold down on the buttons until the in car red light flashes rapidly. So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning. I have 2 craftsman 1 2 hp door openers each car has a remote and i am trying to get my remote to open with the large button on the remote and my wife s door to open with the other button. You only have 30 seconds in which to initiate step 5 return to the vehicle and firmly press the programmed homelink button two times press and hold each time for two seconds.
When you can close the door with the wall button by holding it down until it completely closes and the remotes only make the door move a small amount and the door returns that is the sign of the safety sensor system. Tuesday june 26 2018 you are overriding the infrared beam sensor when you hold down the wall button continuously while the garage door is closing. The garage door opener should have activated upon the second press of the homelink button. Does anyone know how to fix this.
Even after putting new batteries in the remote the garage door still is not. I tried resetting them but now the large button opens both doors at the same time. My name is xxxxx xxxxx would be glad to assist. When i disconnect the carriage and manually move door it seems to move smoothly in both directions.
They can easily become mis aligned due to bumping twisting and loose mounting.