Anybody on here know of any outdoor motion sensors that run off radio wave so I can put them on my property boundaries and then the hub is WiFi enabled to send me mobile notifications? I hate the ring products and everything that the sensors themselves only run off WiFi, they never work well. Something like this but this company went under: https://us.amazon.com/BIBENE-Drivew...P&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1
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Radio wave plus WiFi motion sensors?
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there are a few brands on amazon:
Chamberlain Group CWA2000 Chamberlain Driveway Alert, Black
they all, including the hub & wifi wifi based products, get bad reviews.
excessive hot cold weather would really go through batteries.
look close at the base unit, some are limited.
Chamberlain Group CWA2000 Chamberlain Driveway Alert, Black
they all, including the hub & wifi wifi based products, get bad reviews.
excessive hot cold weather would really go through batteries.
look close at the base unit, some are limited.
re read your initial post so all good but wa do you want??
sorry; the amaon link didnt open in the Brave broser for me.
I had neighborhood / home security issues a year or two back and fixed them another way. Discussed updated requirements with the mayor's office (neighbor works there).
-i looked around quite a lot a while back. best fix = some out door cameras come with motion detection either video or IR. There is a windows open source camera security project, looks like a lot of work to configure but it would insure privacy.
-i dont like ring products from a privacy stand point and yes stuff in this product sector is utter junk
-If all of the IR detectors are shyte; say you got a mobile alert form a IR senser and you drive home. Could be an actual break in effort but most likely the cat trolling the yard or low battries or the sensor is out of box broken.
seems i saw a wifi based IR only detector. I dont recall what its base unit looked like but unlikely it could not generate a mobile alert. Too old school. As soon as you do the mobile alert, especially from a odd ball manufacturer, you risk grave privacy issues.
I am not driving home just to find out a squirrel has eaten my IR sensor. So if I am home, sensor goes off all good, i can figure it out than.
sorry; the amaon link didnt open in the Brave broser for me.
I had neighborhood / home security issues a year or two back and fixed them another way. Discussed updated requirements with the mayor's office (neighbor works there).
-i looked around quite a lot a while back. best fix = some out door cameras come with motion detection either video or IR. There is a windows open source camera security project, looks like a lot of work to configure but it would insure privacy.
-i dont like ring products from a privacy stand point and yes stuff in this product sector is utter junk
-If all of the IR detectors are shyte; say you got a mobile alert form a IR senser and you drive home. Could be an actual break in effort but most likely the cat trolling the yard or low battries or the sensor is out of box broken.
seems i saw a wifi based IR only detector. I dont recall what its base unit looked like but unlikely it could not generate a mobile alert. Too old school. As soon as you do the mobile alert, especially from a odd ball manufacturer, you risk grave privacy issues.
I am not driving home just to find out a squirrel has eaten my IR sensor. So if I am home, sensor goes off all good, i can figure it out than.
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Well the system that I have now you can put the sensors a few feet above the ground and point the beam at the house or a wall. Animals don’t trip it because they’re too low. Cameras suck because they’re field of view is too great so false alarms happen all day. My system now literally gives me no false alarms ever. Only downside is the company went belly up so no more mobile alerts.
