The Chamberlain Group, Inc.

Steven Matthew Vanni

Shawn Marghoob Syed

Systems, components, and methods are provided for operating a movable barrier operator are provided. A movable barrier operator includes a motor operably coupled to a movable barrier to control a position of the movable barrier; and control circuitry including wall controller inputs configured to be electrically coupled to a wall controller through a wall controller input circuit, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: receive a signal from the wall controller input circuit; determine that the wall controller is present in the wall controller input circuit based on the signal received from the wall controller input circuit; control the motor to operate in a first operating mode when the wall controller is determined to be present relative to the received signal; control the motor to operate in a second operating mode when the wall controller is determined to be absent relative to the received signal; and control the motor to operate in the first operating mode when the wall controller is absent and an additional criterion is met.

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Woodridge, IL, United States of America

Steven Matthew Vanni