Mighty Mule Wireless Digital Keypad (FM137)

We have several of these and have been using them for 5+ years. Weve installed, set up, and reprogrammed pins in all of them, and the instructions are very quick and easy to follow. Using them daily, we still havent needed to replace batteries in them yet. Installing them initially with wireless setup took maybe 10 minutes total.

I bought this item to be used for a battery-operated wired-control scenario, but found that there was no way to get this to work. Furthermore, the user manual has barely any information, and online support was non-existent. I am a circuit designer and am familiar with electrical debugging, so my complaints are backed up with (tedious time wasting) electrical debugging of their circuit board with an oscilloscope and manual jumper patching. The user manual claims that wired-control can be done, but the output COM and OUT connection has no output signal even after following their instructions step-by-step. I further checked that COM and OUT remains at high impedance (so this is not the type of contacts that short internally when the connection is active) when the correct key combination is pressed. This was tested with both an oscilloscope and a multi-meter. I found hardly any technical information either in the user manual or online website that could be helpful to get me another step ahead. I tried the online support, but found that the Mighty Mules website support page looks very pretty and fictitiously helpful on the first page. However, I urge you to test visiting the page as though you have a problem, and you find that there are barely any information on the subsequent pages, and you have no options to email them. Other customers have also no luck with trying to reach Mighty Mule by phone. The FAQ looks helpfully long, but this is the type of FAQ that is more of quantity than quality, for example, My gate hit something and no longer works. and other meaningless variants. In short, if this happens to work for you, then congratulations to you! If not, you can still potentially get this to work, but only if you are well-equipped with electrical debugging tools.

My old Apollo gate system finally gave up the ghost and it was time to upgrade so I bought an MM571 system and found out all my old Apollo and generic equipment didnt work with Mighty Mule. So, I bought the keypad, installed it, but couldnt get it to configure. Its about the worlds simplest instructions, so I definitely wasnt making a mistake. After fighting with it for two hours to pick up a code from a gate opener, I looked online and saw a review someone had posted saying that you had to hit and hold the S3 (middle button) on the gate controller panel until it beeped, then hit the prog button and type in master code on the keypad, and lo and behold, it beeped right back and done! Seriously though, how hard would it have been to just include instructions also for the more recent controller that everyone sells (like Tractor Supply) - am I suppose to call technical support for everything? If so, why even include instructions - I could have saved 2 hours and just called straight away if I didnt have the worlds easiest (and most incorrect) instructions provided to me...

Bought as Gift. Worked as advertised.

Works great. Love that it can be programed for different

We ordered this for an older model of the Mighty Mule Pedestrian Gate Lock (FM145) but it did not work. Mighty Mule sales support told us we need to order keypad R4671 (search their web store) for our FM145 gate. Well, it turns out that R4671 also does not work for the FM145 gate opener. To make matters worse, not even Mighty Mule tech support could offer an answer as to which model works, and I cant find the F310 on their site. Good luck finding a keypad if you have an older FM145 gate.

The key pads work perfectly with our new gate.

Well, Im starting out this review with a wireless session. Will update the review after I try the hardwire version. This first effort was using the wireless feature. So far, this thing has misfired more than its worked. Its within 18 of the opener, but only works sometimes. Totally unreliable. I cannot stand items that work part time like this. I buy them to work all the time, not just some of the times. The gate may open 3 times using it, then not for another 5, or after I remove the batteries as a reset. And even then, I play the same game with it. I find myself sitting there pushing buttons just to get it to work. Then waiting the 40 seconds to reset and try again, only to get the same disappointing results. So now, Im going to hardwire it in and see how that works. Will update this review after I see how that works. Or doesnt. But so far, VERY disappointed in this keypad.

This item and product line has the worst customer product support if you even get any. I bought several of their Items to place at my home and was instantly aware I was dupped into a expensive purchase of a low quality, Low to no product support. So I called all my Local Auto gate opener companies. No one would work on them all of then said the used to try to work with and their word were same as mine NO SUPPORT. Now it sets in my shop in the corner and is a reminder of reading all reviews FIRST

Works great, now I have one outside gate and inside gate. They both work every time I use em.