Systems, components, and methods for operating movable barrier operators in a headless mode
AssigneeThe Chamberlain Group, Inc.
InventorsShawn Marghoob Syed, Steven Matthew Vanni
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Abstract
A method of operating a movable barrier operator, the method including: affecting a user override to a movable barrier operator to cause the movable barrier operator to operate in a first operating mode while control circuitry of the movable barrier operator is electrically uncoupled from a wired wall controller, wherein the movable barrier operator operates in a second operating mode different from the first operating mode when the control circuitry is electrically uncoupled from a wired wall controller and the user override is not affected; and after affecting the user override, controlling, via a wireless controller, the movable barrier operator in the first operating mode.
Claims20
A method of operating a movable barrier operator, the method comprising:
- affecting a user override to a movable barrier operator to cause the movable barrier operator to operate in a first operating mode while control circuitry of the movable barrier operator is electrically uncoupled from a wired wall controller, wherein the movable barrier operator operates in a second operating mode different from the first operating mode when the control circuitry is electrically uncoupled from a wired wall controller and the user override is not affected;
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- after affecting the user override, controlling, via a wireless controller, the movable barrier operator in the first operating mode.
A method of operating a movable barrier operator, the method comprising, with a motor of a movable barrier operator operating in a second operating mode due to a connection issue with a wired wall controller, affecting a user override to restore the motor to a first operating mode despite the connection issue, wherein the first operating mode is different than the second operating mode.
A movable barrier operator comprising:
- a motor operably coupled to a movable barrier to drive the movable barrier between an open position and a closed position;
- control circuitry comprising a wall controller input circuit including a first terminal and a second terminal configured to form a completed circuit with a wired wall controller;
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- a conductive bridge extending between the first and second terminals,
- wherein the control circuitry is configured to affect the motor to operate in a first operating mode in response to the wired wall controller or the conductive bridge being detected at the wall controller input circuit, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to affect the motor to operate in a second operating mode in response to absence of the wired wall controller at the wall controller input circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.