Shut a Garage Door when the Sun Is Shining on the Electronic Eyes

Get your Garage Door closed on sunny days by making an electric eye hood!

Steps

Use the inside tube from an empty roll of toilet paper, holiday wrapping paper, Decorate a Wall Using Plastic Wrap, or any cardboard tube that is large enough in diameter and flexible enough so you can bend it to the shape of the electric eye. You may have to experiment with several size tubes until you find one that fits snug enough so it won't fall off.
Cut the tube to be at least {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} long. Remember, if it's too long you can always cut it shorter. Once you cut it, you can't make it longer.
Squeeze the tube so it makes an oval shape instead of it's normal round shape and slip it over the body of the electric eye unit so it extends about {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} past the end of the electric eye.
Put a tube on the electric eye on each side of the garage door (one side for mornings, the other side for evenings)
Make sure the tube is extending straight out from the electric eye. If it isn't, it could get in the way of the electronic beam and prevent the garage door from closing because the cardboard tube is breaking the beam.
Once you've determined the proper length of tube to block the sun from the electric eye you may want to go to a hardware store and invest in some plastic or rubber tubing that would be more durable and weatherproof for those rainy or snowy days.

You can also hold down on the wall console button until the door is completely shut and then let go. This overrides the safety beam feature.
Make sure the tube extends straight out from the electric eye so it doesn't break the beam.
Tube must be snug enough so it won't fall off.
To confirm/adjust electric eye alignment, you can use a laser pointer sitting in the tube pointed across to the other side (best with the door closed so it's sufficiently dark to see the red dot on the other side)
Don't cut the tube too short.
PVC pipe and a "L" bracket screwed to the wall is more durable and doesn't fall apart when it gets wet
If you are in a hurry and need to get your garage door closed right away, stand in such a way that you cast a shadow over your garage door's beam sensor (but of course don't block the beam itself - just the sunlight that is shining on it) and then press your remote control so that your door will close.