I did this on the first try and it worked.
Program ford garage door opener without remote.
Position your current garage door opener 1 3 inches away from the button you wish to program you can pick any of the three.
This indicates proper programming.
For ford owners who are using a garage door opener by genie sommer or who have an older generation of homelink in model years 2008 and earlier select your training videos from the list beneath the main video.
Watch this video for easy to understand step by step instructions on how to program your universal garage door opener if you have a homelink genie intellicode transmitter.
Press and hold the transmitter button and the homelink button you want to assign the garage door to at the same time.
Hold your old garage door transmitter next to the homelink buttons in your vehicle no further than a couple inches.
Watch the light on the homelink system.
Press and hold the homelink button and garage door opener button simultaneously until the light changes from flashing slow to flashing rapidly.
You must use a remote to program it.
Sometimes it takes three or four tries.
The homelink system does not have a way to set a code manually.
Unfortunately if you have an older unit there are no instructions for how to program a homelink garage door opener without a remote.