#28382
Boronia
Flatchatter

    The remote for my car has a much greater range if I point it at my head, rather than directly at the car (honestly). I don’t know if the same logic applies to garage doors.

    One word of possible warning though. A few years ago, our garage door had a rather sensitive aerial and it could be activated from outside from some distance away. The remote has a single press button which will raise or lower the door depending on its current status. On one occasion an entering resident had pressed the button without actually being able to see the door from the street. But another driver had already opened the door and was about to depart, when suddenly the door came down in front of him. After the repairs, the aerial was “retuned” to reduce its sensitivity, and similar to the OP it does take some fiddling to get open from the outside at times.