driveway monitor

[psvfd]

I have this one for a few weeks. Tried a HF that I had about 10 years but was not picking up the mailman every time. Maybe just to old. So I bought this one. Amazon.com: Driveway Alarm Wireless Outside, 1byone Motion Sensor Alarm 1 FT Range Extra Loud Chimes Home Security Alarm System with 1 Receiver 2 Weatherproof Infrared Sensors Protect Indoor/Outdoor Property: Electronics

Driveway is about 200 feet and it is doing good, picked up two turkeys today. I want it to pick up wildlife, I may not be able to look out the door in time to see what it is but that is OK.
I am on a dead end gravel road so hardly any cars.

 

[homesteader13]

The only issue we have with these types... both motion & beam break, are if you can not look out & see the location of the device that is detecting anything can be setting it off animals, high winds... etc. Again they work well but could be alerting you to non-relevant events.

We are on a private mountain road and I put them very close to the gates where we don't have to worry about the dear, bear, moose, cougars, etc setting them off, you pretty much have to open the gate or climb over it for them to trigger.
The one gate we can't lock due to BLM land up the mountain farther.

 

[Pirate]

Dakota Wireless MURS with magnetic probe. Dakota at no charge wired it for aux small 12v battery which I have with a small solar panel. Been working like this reliably for over 10 years. It did crap out once. I mailed it back, they fixed for free.

 

[dmccarty]

We have one of the Dakota Wireless MURS with a sensor. It seems to work very well with foot traffic and most of the time with vehicles. I meant to contact them about the issue with vehicles, but it works well enough, and I have not bothered to contact them. I bought this thing years ago and it still has the original lithium 9v battery!

Later,
Dan

 

[Industrial Toys]

It only takes a few false alarms to make a system quite worthless. Ask me how I know? Spent years playing with all kinds of "Early Warning System" technology. Nothing like concealing a photobeam inside a fence post, only to have a bird make a nest there.

 

[PILOON]

I recommend a gate.

Gates work-----but only if left open.
Here is my logic, (and proven over many years)

A closed gate shouts, "we are away" but open suggests you are home.

I'm in cottage country and folks had unwanted 'visitors' fairly regularly (usually in fall after schools opened).
But I was spared for 20+ years.

Another item that was an invitation was trash bins left out after collection days or all week for that matter.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I don't agree. Many people have automatic gates. And many people (to my disgust) leave their emptied blue boxes out for days and even longer.


MOST burglaries of country property, (I believe) are perpetrated by people that know the property and routine of the owners. They usually are not just random.

EVEN with people I trust, I try and avoid telling someone, I have to go away to the city or some such thing. Ever go to a place you know, don't see a vehicle and assume no one is home, only to be very surprised when someone answers the door? People I know that live like that don't seem to get hit. Others that blab everything to everyone, and have their place open to all, do get hit.

 

[RalphVa]

We have a Dakota alert one that uses an air hose that trips a transmitter with a receiver in the house. Not sure what the range is on them. Here's a video: dakota driveway alarm - safesearch.norton.com Video Search Results It works well for us, but we're only about 400 ft or a bit more from our cul-de-sac. We also have a remote gate now. The gate at $4500 is A LOT more expensive than the Dakota.

We actually have 2 Dakotas. One is across the driveway at the gate key pad. The other is in front of the mail box. They receive with different warning sounds.

Ralph

 

[5030]

Have a large black not so friendly dog for a driveway alarm. Works super. Very few if any unwanted visitors. Something about those pretty white fangs deters them every time.

 

[Doofy]

We have a Dakota alert one that uses an air hose that trips a transmitter with a receiver in the house. Not sure what the range is on them. Here's a video: dakota driveway alarm - safesearch.norton.com Video Search Results It works well for us, but we're only about 400 ft or a bit more from our cul-de-sac. We also have a remote gate now. The gate at $4500 is A LOT more expensive than the Dakota.

We actually have 2 Dakotas. One is across the driveway at the gate key pad. The other is in front of the mail box. They receive with different warning sounds.

Ralph

That's a great idea for the mailbox. My mailbox is about 225' from the house and I don't always see it delivered.