"Car key type" remote control device required to open gate.

[Donwill]

Anyone know of a cheap device so I don't need to put my shopping down before unlocking gate.

Don

[Lino expert]

Shopping trolley?

[Mike Barnes]

A wife?

Oh, "cheap". Sorry.

[Donwill]

Can't find the buttons on it Don

[Donwill]

Unfortunately it's for the wife.

Cheers Don

[Stuart B]

Fingers .You don't get much cheaper than that !!! What sort of latch etc is on the gate .Fit one that only needs a push to open ...like a magnetic one .

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[David Hearn (work)]

Search on ebay for "wireless remote gate control" and you get to many similar to this:

have purchased a couple and they're great. I paid under a tenner delivered last time.

Of course you do need a gate or garage door that is operable via a contact closure. You also need the steady hand of a neurosurgeon to "code" the remote and receiver via nano sized solder jumpers.

In the wrong hands this would be the perfect technology for remotely detonating bombs as well.

[Owain]

Tesco deliver shopping for £5, and they don't moan at me for spending too much money on beer and pizza.

Maplin used to do radio-control modules which could be interfaced to an electric lock release

Owain

[Dave Liquorice]

How is your missus going to get the remote out of her pocket/bag and press the unlock button without putting the shopping down?

[Adrian C]

Get along to a friendly vet and get microchipped. Then modify one of those cat flaps things they sell.

[Owain]

Maybe she's got really good pelvic floor muscles.

Owain

[Harry Bloomfield]

Donwill explained on 21/04/2009 :

Run a search on ebay for garage door opener controls - look especially at the Hong Kong suppliers. Put the control unit indoors and just wire

24v out to feed the unlock solenoid.

Another way would be a key pad entry system. Type the correct series of digits in and the lock unlocks. I have one of these on my garage door, beats searching for missing keys and going back for them when you have forgotten them.

[Bob Eager]

Clearly, what is required is voice operation!

[dennis]

Does he want it to operate while the wife is 500m down the road then?

[Bob Eager]

With my wife, it would! Handsfree seemed to be the preference...

[Stuart B]

They actually deliver on certain days for a lot less than that .

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[Matty F]

Connect a foot pedal to the latch.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Donwill" saying something like:

Khaki trousers?