My beat to fuck CRV clicker always works in the parking lot at work but almost never in front of my apartment and I’ve tried using it 200 different ways in both.
And I got it replaced recently so I know it ain’t that.
Some LED lights create interference with garage door openers & key fobs. Maybe you’re parking near a security light or holiday decorations?
If it’s at 2.4 ghz, wifi interference?
Aurora borealis?
electromagnetic interference is a real thing… driving down the highway to a small town in california there is one little stretch of road just outside the city that will drop bluetooth connections every single time and cut my phone from my car so my music stops
As someone who has spent half their professional life looking at network packet drops, I may be biased, but it’s interference.
There’s no directly “geographical” causes, but there’s a 99% chance the fob works in 2.4Ghz. Depending where in that 2.4-2.5 spectrum it functions (which will depend entirely on the car model), something else at your apartment is filling that frequency too.
Sadly that something can be just about anything - power lines, telecom wires, lights, any faulty/poorly shielded electronics or electronics using constant wireless comms, someone else’s car, nearby antennae you name it. Only way you’d likely find where it is is with an RF meter/Spectrum analyzer and a lot of patience. My neighbour used to illegally over-power their network router which fucked up most wireless anythings in a 20-meter radius.
