I try to turn on my outdoorlight when someone walks enters my property.
Motion sensors are quite unreliable because they trigger when a cat is passing or some branches move.
Camera observation and AI evaluation cant be done because there is a sidewalk next to the border. And we are not allowed to monitor public space. So the Camera must be bointed on the edge of the property and then only the feet of a person can be seen. So it would be to late to turn the light on when the person is fully seen.
Anyone has some suggestions? Out of the box thinking might be the trick.
A prescense sensor like the FP2 will work nicely, not ever tested outdoors. So that part it’s tricky I think but maybe if inside on the other side of the window it will do the trick
Some motion sensors have the ability to filter out suspected animal motion events. I don’t know if I’ve seen an outdoor one but maybe you could create something to protect it from the elements and use an indoor one. Other than that you might have to do some sort of laser like garage doors use at the edge of your property
I second this. My video doorbell (not Aqara) has presence detection build to identify people walking towards our house door. This event can be used in automations
You could try a double infrared beam setup just inside your property. Two beams a short distance apart can detect direction of travel, so it only triggers when someone’s entering and not when they’re leaving. Mounted at about knee/waist height, it’ll ignore cats and wind-blown plants.
I would still not rule out mmWave presence detection — with the right module you can define identification zones, ignoring the public ground.
It’d help to know how much distance there is between the house and the public ground…