What's the range of the sensor? Anyone try this behind a glass enclosure?
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I have it set up in my bedroom and when I walk down the hall (about 15 feet away) pass the bedroom door the light comes on.
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Don't waste your money on this. Very unreliable, it either never goes on or it goes on then never goes off. As an Electronics engineer, my opinion is that Amazon needs to remove this from the site.
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It does at least 12ft+ in my kitchen. I just tested behind glass for you, it does NOT work.
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I have the sensor nailed to a tree about three feet off the ground. It is very sensitive. I think installed at an angle above the garage would work. The receiver in the house works very well and beeps three times everytime something passes the sensor, could be a car, animal, or garbage man. Do not put the receiver near metal like a microwave it seems to block the radio waves. Also when the transmitter is rained on sometimes you get false readings. I put a plastic shroud over the top made from a yogurt container. Overall I am very pleased with the product and for the price it is a very good value. I highly recommend this product. I have the sensor nailed to a tree about three feet off the ground. It is very sensitive. I think installed at an angle above the garage would work. The receiver in the house works very well and beeps three times everytime something passes the sensor, could be a car, animal, or garbage man. Do not put the receiver near metal like a microwave it seems to block the radio waves. Also when the transmitter is rained on sometimes you get false readings. I put a plastic shroud over the top made from a yogurt container. Overall I am very pleased with the product and for the price it is a very good... » Read More I have the sensor nailed to a tree about three feet off the ground. It is very sensitive. I think installed at an angle above the garage would work. The receiver in the house works very well and beeps three times everytime something passes the sensor, could be a car, animal, or garbage man. Do not put the receiver near metal like a microwave it seems to block the radio waves. Also when the transmitter is rained on sometimes you get false readings. I put a plastic shroud over the top made from a yogurt container. Overall I am very pleased with the product and for the price it is a very good value. I highly recommend this product. « Show Less
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I believe not. The sensor needs to be less than 40 inches away and directly above the computer
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Shockingly very far away if you set the sensitivity all the way up. My home is 3000sqft and if I yell from upstairs it will respond... Not always correctly but you get the point.
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Since it is an optical slave trigger (the red dome on top of the light), it depends entirely on the ambient light. If you are outside in bright sunshine, the slave sensor may not trigger the light at all. If you are in a dark theater, you could be more than 100 feet away. My advice would be to get a radio-trigger setup; those are generally good up to 100 feet with no obstructions (line of sight).
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The remote uses IR to control the receiver. I would just make sure that your enclosure does not obstruct line of sight between remote and the IR-receiver (front of unit)... If you're connected through wi-fi, you could just use the android/iOs app and not worry about line of sight issues.
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Well heck I guess you could put it anywhere really, within range of the sensor. I had it in a window for several days before putting it up and it went off every time I walked by, a distance of a good 3-4 feet or so with a ~45 degree cone. Once I put it on the shed I mounted it directly above the door, and it goes off every time I reach the doors. That height is about 7 feet.
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The manual says the rf range is up to 450ft. depending on receiver. Mine is about 100 ft away from the 330a and works very well. At first mounted my sensor in the sun and it had a lot of false alarms, I was able to move to the shade and it is very dependable. The detection range on my sensor is pretty close to 40 ft. and it is mounted 8 ft off the ground.
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Yes, the operating distance between the sensor and receiver is about 500 ft, so this should work for you.
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I have not had very good luck with the range or the sensitivty of this device. I bought two of them and one does seem to have a little better sensitivity then the other but neither are great. For the price, I have simply installed them at about seven feet high and point them in the direction that I want covered. I hope that just the site of them is a deterent to an intruder. Mine are installed outside of my house but they may work better installed inside.
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No it does not. I installed in a large glass fixture and it could not see through the glass. I moved the sensor outside the glass and kept tweaking the sensitivity, but was never able to get it to work correctly. The whole thing is sitting in my garage and I am now installing insteon switches.
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I wouldn't rely on a full 400 ft. range; however, it works very well for us in 250-300 ft. range! We really like the system. If you have stone walls between the sensor and the receiver, the range is limited. We just put the receiver near a window and have no problems. It is loud enough to be heard easily throughout our large home. Hope this helps!
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Hello Robert, One sensor will cover a 50ft radius if in an open room. So you may only need one. The Glass Break sensor picks up on the sound of glass being broken. Thanks! www.FortressSecurityStore.com
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Think it's close, but I think you can use an extension cord. They also sell extensions for the sensors.
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It is not very accurate and it basically has to be in view of the motion sensor. It won't work thru walls and it has a range of about 30 to 50 feet
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I ran a thin bead of grease along the edges of the sensor component (the magnet side has no electronics to worry about) and riveted the assembly to an outdoor gate in Michigan. It's currently well below zero and everything works like it should. The Aeon Labs multisensor doesn't handle sub zero weather readouts very well, but the contact sensor just keeps on doing it's thing.
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I bought this as a gift as I received a similar one as one. For mine, the outside sensor should be sheltered from direct sunlight as you want the temperature to reflect "in the shade." How you could do this without "getting rained on" is beyond me. Mine is under an eve. If you have no eve access, I suggest you improvise a simple one. make sure there's enough circulation room as to not trap heat and damage the sensor or at least cause it to give invalid readings. Good luck...