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Engineers? I need your help here with one device I want to make.?

Every night I let my dog outside, she usually stays out for about 5-15 mins. Now, since I don't want her to wait in front of the door on cold I wanted to build a device mounted on her neck that will send infrared impulses to receiver mounted in the hall. There are two options; using an old remote (that will send impulses continuously) and tv receiver; and second option is to somehow connect movement-activated light sensor in hall just to trigger a light/buzzer just to indicate that something is in front of the door and moving. Sorry for my bad English it's not my native language. I hope you will know how to make a circuit for that and thank you. Any help will be satisfying. : )

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    I simply mounted a motion detector flood lamp head beside the door and aimed it down. In the base wiring there are neutral (white), power (black) and two blue wires (in my case) that were connected together and joined the infrared/heat sensor to the lamp head. Crimp connectors were used - I cut the blue wires close to the connector to replace them with wire nuts and added a wire to come inside, which I connected to 120 volt relay that mounted on a loose metal plate so it went clunk when the relay closed. I could have used a household doorbell transformer with buzzer for continuous sound. The sensor head for motion has a position for Test that ignores the night requirement and turns on the light for about 12 seconds in daylight.

    In my case, the light coming on soon trained the dog it was sensed and it stopped standing at the door barking until I arrived.

  • John
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    You could just mount the laser lights that a garage door opener uses as a safety device across an appropriate space, and connect the output to a buzzer. It will need power, of course.

  • 6 years ago

    [1] USING TV REMOTE CONTROL METHOD WOULD NOT WORK BECAUSE ITS INFRA-RED CANNOT GO THROUGH ANY DOOR,WALL EVEN A PIECE OF PAPER.

    [2] SECOND METHOD COULD WORK BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO MODIFY THE EXISTED DEVICE CALLED MOTION SENSOR OUTDOOR LIGHT. IT IS VERY CHEAP ,JUST COST $10 PIECE. DISABLE ITS DAY LIGHT CUT OFF CIRCUIT FROM INSIDE SO THAT IT STILL ACTIVATE DURING DAY TIME, BECAUSE THIS DEVICE WAS DESIGNED TO ACTIVATE AT NIGHT WHILE NO MORE SUN LIGHT OUTSIDE. NEXT, CONNECT WIRE FROM ITS BULB SOCKET, LET THIS WIRES POWER ANOTHER LAMP INSIDE WHERE YOU WATCH OFTEN. BE SURE TO ADJUST THE MOTION SENSOR HEAD TO AIM NEAR THE DOOR AREA. THE WORST THING IS THIS DEVICE DETECT ANY MOTION EVEN A BLOWING TREE.

    [3] I PREFER TO MOUNT AN OUTDOOR CAMERA TO WATCH THE DOG.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    While the IR collar might work, the problem would be the life of the batteries since the IR leds would be on constantly, unlikely a couple of AAA batteries would last 6 hours.

    Possibly a passive RFID tag on the dog's collar and RFID tag reader at the door would work. That way, there would be no false alarms as there might be with the PIR motion detector.

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  • 6 years ago

    Your first idea will not work, because infra-red light will not go through a solid door. There is nothing wrong with the second idea. Commercial movement sensors are readily available, so you could use the output from the sensor to operate the pushbutton circuit of a wireless doorbell.

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