ᐅ Are there indoor motion sensors available that do not detect pets?
Created on: 18 May 2021 09:00
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motorradsilke
Hello,
I would like to control the lighting in our hallway using motion sensors. We have a dog (12 kg) and two cats.
Are there motion sensors that do not react to pets? Or is there a way to install standard motion sensors so they don’t trigger from the animals?
Unfortunately, our electrician said that such options don’t exist.
I would like to control the lighting in our hallway using motion sensors. We have a dog (12 kg) and two cats.
Are there motion sensors that do not react to pets? Or is there a way to install standard motion sensors so they don’t trigger from the animals?
Unfortunately, our electrician said that such options don’t exist.
Winniefred18 May 2021 18:45D
motorradsilke schrieb:I’m interested in that as well. We have motion detectors in the hallway and basement, plus a dog and two cats, so that would be practical. But it still needs to detect our children, the youngest is now 120cm (47 inches) tall. I’d appreciate any tips.
Do you have a model name or manufacturer from them?
motorradsilke schrieb:
Secondly, hallway lights shouldn’t only turn on at night but also during the day when I’m moving around there. Why shouldn’t that work? As soon as the room brightness drops below X, it switches on; after xx o’clock, only half of the lights come on at 10% brightness. This has nothing to do with the original problem.
motorradsilke schrieb:
Do you have a model name or manufacturer for those? You need a wall-mounted motion detector with a fixed or adjustable detection angle. Sometimes these can be covered partially. If the sensor only detects horizontally at the mounting height and above, then anything smaller than the mounting height remains undetected. However, you have to test this in practice beforehand, as it’s not always that simple in reality. The sensor also can’t tell whether it’s the cat coming at night or me crawling drunk on the floor looking for the bed :p
Winniefred18 May 2021 18:56That probably won’t work on staircases because of the different heights, right? We have two detectors on one staircase so they can also cover the hallways at night for the kids.
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motorradsilke18 May 2021 19:26Fuchur schrieb:
Why shouldn’t that work? As soon as room brightness drops below X, it switches, from xx o’clock only half of the lights remain on and at 10% brightness. This has nothing to do with the original problem.
The issue was that by asking whether the animals really need to be active at night, it was implied that the system only has to work at night. However, it must work the same way during the day, and the animals are certainly moving around then as well.
We are using the Gira System 2000. Our electrician configured it, but I have no idea how he set the height limit.
The motion detectors are each about 1.50 m (5 feet) away from the stairway.
The child is now just over 1.30 m (4 feet 3 inches) tall, and it has worked fine for all these past years.
The motion detectors are each about 1.50 m (5 feet) away from the stairway.
The child is now just over 1.30 m (4 feet 3 inches) tall, and it has worked fine for all these past years.
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hanghaus200019 May 2021 11:23Using BM control is definitely the right approach. Why make it more complicated? If you have LED lamps, the power consumption in the hallway for those few minutes a day is negligible.