Garage Door Eye Sensor Is Yellow

Your photo eye sensors are attached to a pivot bracket which may have been moved and so has broken the beam.

Garage door eye sensor is yellow.

The transmitting photo eye has the yellow led and it should always be lit. You can loosen the bolts that secure the bracket to the door frame and try moving it around slightly. When it is lit it is sending the beam across the garage door opening. One of my garage door sensors is solid yellow and the other green.

Cannot close the door with remote. A common cause of a malfunctioning garage door sensor is lack of power supply. If you do not see a solid illumination or your garage door is not working the problem is most likely due to the sensors being out of line. The garage door sensor yellow light and the green light together create a solid illumination.

What the make and model of the opener itself. The sensor on one side of my garage door remains yellow so keeping the door from closing. Look for small led lights on the sensors. That s normal the eye s are not the issue.

You ll need to first equip yourself with a wrench of some sort and a tape measure. One photo eye will have an amber led yellow and the other will have a green led. If this is what s happened it s very easily fixed. So how do you fix this issue.

If they re turned on in both the sensors then there is no issue with the power supply. I can open the garage door with my remote but not close it. The symptom you are describing is usually related to a failure in your safety sensors photo eyes when the photo eyes or associated wiring are malfunctioning the door will often open as normal with the remotes and wall buttons however will not close with the remotes or keypad and will only close by keeping constant pressure on the wall button.