Will an HSM100 detect motion through a window?

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I’m interested in putting an HSM100 inside the garage and wondering if it will detect motion through a garage window. For example someone walking by the window on the outside.

Anybody with a similar setup?

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yup… but sometimes it can have strange effects… for example a fly comes onto your window then it will trigger as the window glass combined with the rounding of the detector cause it to magnify.

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Thanks for the info.

I think I will order one and try it. Maybe lower the sensitivity quite a bit and see how it goes.

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you could also make it face away from the window… put it on top of the window pointing it inwards

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Ideally i would like it to detect if someone walks up to the window on the outside but without false alarms

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i use a cam with motion detection for that, but i guess a sensor will also work. i wouldnt know if one can set the angle or intensity of the sensing. i think you have to try it out irl.

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Will the cam you use send an alert to vera? If so which be do you use?

That sounds like it maybe a better solution.

Thanks

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[url=http://www.lightinthebox.com/nl/ip-camera-wifi-802-11-b-g-m-jpeg-gratis-ddns-begrensd-16-vooraf-ingestelde-positie-osd-ir-bewegingsdetectie-zwart-wit_p209046.html]http://www.lightinthebox.com/nl/ip-camera-wifi-802-11-b-g-m-jpeg-gratis-ddns-begrensd-16-vooraf-ingestelde-positie-osd-ir-bewegingsdetectie-zwart-wit_p209046.html[/url]

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Thanks

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Does it show up similar to a 3 in 1 where it has a motion trigger in Vera?

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nop uses its own build-in webpage, but i guess you can make it do this functionality with a 3-1 sensor added and some coding of luup

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Glass is opaque to infrared light, unless you use special (expensive) quartz glass. There famously was a Mythbusters episode on it.

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or you have double glass windows with built-in thermo-stuff ^^
mythbusters are known to come back to their previous statements as well lol

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i love mythbusters (even if they sometimes are talking bull***t)

And the sensor is definitely infrared:
http://www.expresscontrols.com/pdf/EZMotionOwnerManual.pdf

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[quote=“chixxi, post:14, topic:170953”]i love mythbusters (even if they sometimes are talking bull***t)

And the sensor is definitely infrared:
http://www.expresscontrols.com/pdf/EZMotionOwnerManual.pdf[/quote]
ow yeah they deserve a oscar as well :smiley:
yup its IR indeed