In need of perimiter breach detection

[thymer]

Not familiar with SH but it looks pretty darned cool.

[Uncle Michael]

I don't really need to detect motion as much as someone crossing a line.

I don't think any consumer based applications really detect motion. I suspect that they detect a change in the light/dark pattern of an image that correlates with motion. In that regard, I would doubt that there is much practical difference between crossing a line and motion, although SightHound probably makes that easier to set up. (At least its predecessor - it was called Vitamin D, I think - did.) I haven't tried it, mostly because BI is so darn powerful and effective.

[logbuilder]

I'm a HS3 user as well as BI4 so I belong to a BI based forum as well as this one.

I'd suggest asking that question in the BI forum. Lots of experience there.

https://ipcamtalk.com/forums/general-bi-talk.32/

[S-F]

Gotcha. The thing is that the lawn between our driveways is so narrow that triggering from motion on it would be all but impossible. SightHound claims that it can detect direction of motion so if someone crossed that line from their side it would, theoretically, trigger. I dunno. I'm getting a fancy IP cam and am going to experiment.

[S-F]

I'm a HS3 user as well as BI4 so I belong to a BI based forum as well as this one.

I'd suggest asking that question in the BI forum. Lots of experience there.

https://ipcamtalk.com/forums/general-bi-talk.32/

I just joined IPCTalk today as well. I haven't asked there because it's so BI centric that I'm afraid they wouldn't consider SightHound as an option for me.

[bsobel]

BLRadar has a movement feature where you can make a virtual device on/off based on movement between two devices. I think you could use your existing auto sensor as the 'from' sensor (turned back up) and another motion sensor closer to the house (as the to sensor). When motion occurs at FROM followed by TO then you could make the virtual device ON....