Hey, DIYers, Dylan with AlarmGrid.
Today we're going over do animals set off outdoor motion
sensors?
The quick answer is yes.
There are a couple things that we
can do to prevent that, though.
The main thing you want to focus on with these motion
detectors-- unfortunately, I don't have an outdoor one.
I only have the indoor one.
We'll be doing a little compare and contrast.
The main difference is the actual height
that you're going to be installing these at.
The indoor ones are recommended about five to six feet
off the ground.
The outdoor ones surprisingly, are
recommended to be about 2.7 to about four feet off the ground.
Reason being is that they are looking directly out,
as a wireless indoor motion is looking kind of more an angle.
With the outdoor motion, if you say install it
about 3.3 feet off the ground, it
has a 40 foot radius of where it's looking.
So that way, it's not really looking too far down
for smaller animals that can pass and set it off.
You do have to worry about larger animals.
But if they're tall enough, they could in theory
walk right over it.
Another thing you want to focus on
is the dip switches inside the outdoor motion.
As mentioned, we don't have one to show,
but there are about four or five dip switches
on the outside motion.
Depending on how you set those is detecting
the sensitivity of the motion.
The lower the sensitivity, the less
chance that it's going to have a false alarm.
It's basically waiting for directs movement right
in front of it to set off.
The higher sensitivity will set off for pretty much anything.
You're going to have a lot of false alarms on that.
But it's in a high security mode, so it's just extra aware.
For wireless indoor motion detectors,
it's the same idea of there's no dip switches on this.
There's actually just going into the programming
and setting the loops, loop 1, 2, 3,
4, that can adjust the sensitivity
of the actual motion detector.
For both of those, it's recommended
to check either the product page on our website
or the actual user manual for the device.
That's going to give you more specifics
on how you should set those, how high it's
recommended to install them, so on and so forth.
There are also little blockers within the actual motion
detector that you can set up.
Let me see if I can get this one open.
So this right here, this black piece
that is kind of blocking a certain area of this motion
detector from being seen.
You can kind of add onto that by putting some tape in there,
possibly, electrical tape, moving this around a bit.
And then you'll notice on the outdoor motion sensors,
you'll see the dip switch is kind of around the same area.
Let's see.
For the indoor motions, it's also recommended placement--
same thing for outdoor, I suppose.
For indoor, you don't really want to put it in an area
where it's facing furniture that small animals can
jump on, cats, dogs, anything like that.
The motion is basically looking for multiple areas
to be tripped before it sets off the actual alarm.
So if you're having the motion looking
at a piece of furniture, either indoor or outdoor
and an animal is jumping from the ground up to that furniture
and then possibly back down, it's
passing a couple different areas of detection,
possibly setting off the motion, causing a false alarm.
That's going to be adjusted by the sensitivity
that you set it at.
So if you have it on a lower sensitivity,
that's less likely to trip it off,
but it's still a possibility.
You just always want to keep in mind.
Another thing that can set off the outdoor motion
is sunlight, surprisingly.
The sun doesn't actually do it.
It's more the heat.
So if you have the motion outside
and it's either where the sun is rising or setting
and it's going to get direct sunlight for a good amount
of time, kind of heat it up, that could possibly
also trigger a false alarm, because it's
seeing a large heat signature, be it either animal or light.
And it's mainly-- it's bad to say,
but it's kind of trial and error with these sometimes.
You can place the system on a test mode
if you have it with a central station.
Your alarm company can do that.
Or you might also be able to contact central station
directly.
That way, if any alarms are going off
while you're testing this you're not
worrying about false dispatch or anything like that.
You just see how the alarm goes, you see how the motions react.
If you're on a self plan where you're only
monitoring it yourself, you just have
an application alerting you, you don't have to worry too much.
You can set off the alarm as much as possible.
You don't have to worry about dispatch.
We do have plenty more information
on the outdoor motions and how to set them up.
We also have a couple of outdoor motions on our website
that show a product description, also going
over dip switches, height recommendations,
so on and so forth.
You can check those out at alarmgrid.com.
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