Centurion garage door remote or gate remote?
The Door Hero is not connected with CENTURION Systems. The model details here come from CENTURION Systems' own D5-Evo manual.
Lots of people in New Zealand search for a Centurion garage door remote. Here, the Centurion name belongs to CENTURION Systems, also written CENTSYS, a gate motor maker, and this guide is about its electric gate motors.
Aero NZ Ltd, which says it is a company of FAAC Technologies, calls itself the sole supplier of Centurion Systems here. It supplies the trade first, and says end users usually work through the businesses that fit its products.
A separate business, Centurion Garage Doors, makes garage doors, and we found no sign of it selling in New Zealand. If your remote opens a garage door, read the maker's name off the opener and start at the general remote programming guide.
Find your gate motor's model first
The remote notes on this page belong to one model: the D5-Evo, a sliding gate motor. If your gate runs on a D2, a D10, a swing gate motor or anything else, check the manual for your model rather than borrowing the D5-Evo's.
The D5-Evo manual behind this page is the copy on CENTURION Systems' South African site. A unit sold here may be set up differently, and the New Zealand range has not been confirmed to include it, so check the manual that came with your motor before relying on any menu name below.
How a D5-Evo learns a new remote
On a D5-Evo the remote codes are stored in the motor. It has a NOVA receiver built in, and its manual puts the limit at 500 transmitter buttons. That count is in buttons rather than handsets, so a remote with several buttons coded takes several places.
The manual's Autolearn option opens a learning window you set, anywhere from one hour to seven days. Any remote button pressed during that window is learned to the function you picked, and once it closes, no more buttons are learned.
Autolearn suits a household adding several remotes at once, but it learns whatever is pressed. Keep the window short, and press only the remotes you mean to add until it has closed. For the menu path to Autolearn on your unit, check the manual that came with it.
Before you add or clear a Centurion remote
- The motor's model, read off its label, and the manual for that model
- Every remote in the household that should keep working
- A fresh battery in each remote you plan to add
- Power on at the motor and a clear gateway for testing
- A note of any beeps the motor has been making
Lost or stolen Centurion remote
On a D5-Evo, the manual's Delete all Remotes option wipes the receiver's whole memory. From then on no remote runs the gate until it is learned again, which shuts out the missing one along with the rest.
So line up every remote you are keeping before you use it, then learn them back in one session, with Autolearn if your manual gives it. Removing a single remote while keeping the others is not covered here: check the manual for your unit.
Beeps that look like a remote fault
A remote that seems dead is sometimes a motor telling you something else. The D5-Evo manual gives buzzer patterns for a low battery, a mains power failure, holiday lockout or broken safety beams, and limits that have not been set. While any of those is going, coding a new remote is unlikely to fix anything.
The full pattern table, with what to check for each, is in the gate motor not working guide. A motor that keeps warning about its battery or power belongs with electric gate repairs.
Leave the gate's wiring to a licensed electrician
Autolearn and Delete all Remotes are settings, not wiring jobs. If the motor needs a new power point or other new wiring, the EWRB says only registered and licensed electrical workers can carry out or supervise that prescribed electrical work, and they must hand you a Certificate of Compliance for fixed wiring.
What to tell the door specialist
- That the motor is a CENTURION Systems unit, and its model if you know it
- Whether the gate slides or swings
- Whether any remote still runs the gate
- Any beep pattern you have heard, and how many beeps
- Whether a remote is missing and you want the memory cleared
What you can do, and what to leave
You can
- Find the model and the manual for your unit
- Use Autolearn from that manual to add remotes
- Press only your own remotes while the window is open
- Count any beeps and write them down
Leave to a door specialist
- Clearing the memory when you have no manual
- A motor warning about its battery or mains power
- Setting limits after the motor says none are set
- New power or wiring at the gate, by a licensed electrician
What we would do
Before anyone presses Delete all Remotes, go round the house and the cars and collect every remote, then count them. The D5-Evo wipes the lot in one go, and it is far easier to learn them all back while they sit on the bench than to find a forgotten one in the glovebox next week. The door specialist who takes the job may or may not work on CENTURION Systems motors, so name the make when you send it.