Vent: Found a way to stop false alarms from those cheap window sensors

I kept getting callbacks on a job in Austin where the customer's dog kept setting off the contact sensor on a sliding door. Tried adjusting the gap and even swapping the magnet but nothing worked. Anyone else had luck just putting the sensor on the frame instead of the door itself?

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anthonykim4d ago

Man I don't get the big deal here. Its a contact sensor on a sliding door, the dog pushes it open a crack, the alarm goes off. That's just normal life with a pet. Youre acting like the customer is going to sue you or something over a false alarm. Slap the sensor on the frame if you want, but now youre just gonna have a bigger gap and the same issue when the dog leans on the door. Seems like overthinking a simple problem that a smarter dog or a different magnet would fix.

dylan2654d ago

Hell @anthonykim, you're not thinking about the real issue - it's not the door gap, it's the vibration from that sliding door track when the dog pushes it.