Owl Motion Sensor Alarm With Multiple Area Sensors 

Glad they are working for you! We had the same idea, and have two on our driveway, when they both go off in sequence, we know its a vehicle!

I am so glad to hear my video was helpful! We've also added additional sensors, a second for the driveway to differentuate between animals and cars (if both are tripped, it's a car, as animals only cross the driveway, cars drive along it), and one in our mailbox, so we know when the mail is in! Let me know what other applications you come up with for your sensors!

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

I'm glad the video was helpful! We love our little owls, and have added a few more. We have two in the driveway now, so when we hear only one, we know it's a deer or a cat crossing the driveway, but if we hear two in a row, it's a car! I also put one in our mailbox, at the back. Now we know when the mail is in, too...😁

Thanks for the kind words, they mean a lot! If you get some, let me know!

Question does it record at all? Does it notify to your phone

Hey, that's great! You're very welcome. Please let me know how they work for you, and if you need any help getting set up!

Thanks a lot! Make sure you look carefully at the pricing, a single with one transmitter and one receiver usually costs more than a two transmitter/one receiver pack... 🤣

Thanks for your kind words. They mean more than you can know!

Hello Pete! I just saw your message, sorry for the delay. Please let me know how the snesors worked out for you...

@Dave Drawing The receiver died after only 20 minutes and I wonder if it was because it was only designed for 120 volts and not 240 volts in UK. I returned it as faulty

Thanks for the luv, my friend!

Lol watch it too the end 🤣🤣🤣

Hey, thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you liked it. Let me know what you find about the Canadian price...

I know watching the whole video is tedious, but if you did, you'd hear the full range of sounds, which include "front door", "back door", "driveway", etc. I'm glad you liked it! 😁

yeah we bought these but we couldnt use it on our property line. It's 500 feet long and wooded. Thee is no relevance to the 4 voice commands offered. And the tones are esoteric and we cant make sense of which one is which. We arent musically minded. THey are still in the cupboard a year later. LOL

The base does retain it's programming. We've had ours a couple of years with many power outages, and never have had to reprogram. 😁👍

Hi there, thanks for the comment, nice to me you, too.

Thanks! As I recall, the distances claimed were not what we got, but it was still a very long way. It may be possible with careful aiming to avoid the spot your pup likes to lay, but still provide the coverage you need... We had to make adjustments to ours on the back of the house to not be set off by every single critter we have marching by the 'Coon Buffet... 😆

Thanks very much. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much! I would say about 30 degrees, but I haven't actually measured.

Where do I sign??

They have over thirty sounds, but yeah, they did leave out owl...🤣

It is equally effective day and night! Motion sensors don't need light! 😄

@@DaveDrawing Thank you! After seeing your review, I ordered mine yesterday and they were delivered today. Can't wait to put these owls to work! Thanks again!

@@parkerplenty3161 you're very welcome! I hope you'll let me know how they work out for you. If you run into any issues, feel free to message me at: facebook.com/DaveDrawingVR/

They will do the trick for sure. We put two along our driveway so we can tell the difference between cars and wildlife. One ding = wildlife Two dings = car

@@DaveDrawing Many thanks for the reply. I can see that these things could be quite addictive. We have a resident barn owl and it would be great to know when she comes out to hunt.

Just a quick update - I installed it and am really impressed with its ability to cope with the 2ft thick solid stone walls we have here that are usually all too good at stopping radio devices working. In the initial test it was working over 50 yards through three of these walls. I wish I could get the WiFi to work as well!

@ColinMill1 Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear the little owls are working out so well for you! You will be amazed by the battery life, too (one year and ten months on the original batteries so far!)

@@DaveDrawing Thanks - I'm glad about that as our little weather stations fairly chomp through batteries and don't like rechargeables. Thanks to having the detector over the food bowls and forgetting to turn the receiver off overnight we found out that the ducks have breakfast just before 6am 🙂

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you found my video helpful. How high you put them isn't so imp;oirtant, because you can pivot the unit up and down once installed. It takes a few tries to get it right, but our driveway cam only triggers for cars, and taller animals like deer. Raccoons and smaller aren't a problem. There will always be a few false alarms, for example a squirel is tiny, but can climb up and pass the sensor. We have security cameras on their own monitor, so we can glance and see if its a car, or not. The battery life is phenominal, a year in now, and still on the original batteries! We added a sensor at the back of our mailbox to let us know when we have mail, it's a good application. Good luck with yours, and let us know how it goes!

@@DaveDrawing Thank you for all the good information. Very appreciated.

@@DaveDrawing Hi Dave, me again lol. So after 1 year, would you buy it again? Beside the squirrel, did you get a lot of false alarm like during a windy day when leaves are blowing around, birds may be flying at the right spot to activate the alarm , Bees or insects . Seriously thinking of ordering the same of what you have. Lots of them on the market including solar type but i rather buy the one that i can replace the battery. Looking forward for your comments. Thanks Dave.

@@rejeanpoirier6047 hello again! Yes, after a year of flawless performance, I would definitely buy this system again. I don't believe insects and birds set it off. We do have the occasional false alarm, but not enough to be an issue. As I mentioned, we use this in addition to a camera system, so when we hear the alarm, we can glance at the monitor and see if there's a car in the driveway, or a critter at our feeder, for example. Since you can have each unit make its own distinctive sound, we already know before looking which unit has been triggered. We are amazed at the battery life. I planned to change them every six months or so, but as several of you have inquired about battery life, I'm going to let these run so we can accurately say how long they last! Thanks for your message, and always feel free to ask anything you like, and share your own experiences with these once you get them. 😁

@@DaveDrawing That's good to hear Dave. Changing the batteries once every 6 months is a good idea. This way you know the battery will be always be at optimum. I will keep you in the loop once I decide to get the system. Right now I'm waiting for a price any day now from a local alarm company to see how much it will cost to install 3 wired radar sensors and a receiver. When he came over the house to get information for an estimate , he was talking maybe 500 dollars plus for only 1 sensor. So we may be talking about 3,000 thousands Dollars by the time they are all finish with installation etc.... That's a lot of money just to see if someone is in your yard lol. I can get the same system you have with 4 sensors and a receiver for 155 dollars plus shipping on amazon. Now i know the radar sensor is better then the owl but I notice you and others are very satisfied and why pay all that money for the purpose off doing the same job. So once the company emails me the estimate, I will decline and order the owl right away. I will let you know what I'm going to decide and once I get the owl. I will let you know how it's going. I am now subscribe to your channel. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for the kind words! While I haven't had that issue, I'd have to say the first thing I'd try would be a reset, like with any electronic device. Pull the batteries, let them sit for a few minutes, then try them again. If that fails, I'd review the setup and do that again. Let me know what happens!

I have that same problem I have five of them and only one will work with my receiver in the house

@@melissaphillips3990 sorry you're having an issue. Did you try the fixes suggested above?

These arent compatable with any outside sirens or other add-ons. They aren't really an alarm system, more of a notification system.

Wait, did you think this was something similar to one of those garden owls?

Installed on March the 10th, haven't needed to change yet. That's over 3 months and two weeks.

I am so happy with these, I have ordered more. I'm putting one in our mailbox so we always know exactly when the mail comes. Also a few more around the back of the property so we know when wildlife is about.

4 1/2 months so far, no new batteries.

Yes, it does. With some careful aiming adjustments, it can be minimized. But if it walks down your driveway, it goes off. We found adding a second sensor further down the drive helps identify actual visitors, since you hear two alarms if it's a car or truck. In other words, "Ding, Driveway" means a cat or deer. Hearing it twice means it's a car.

@Johnny Rep well, maybe a cat as big as a car moving as fast as a car... 😜

@@JohnnyRep-hz5qh 🤣

Sorry, but the answer is no. They work only with thier own sensors and recievers. I do know how to make your garden lights turn on by motion sensor, but I'd need some more information. Feel free to Message me at: facebook.com/DaveDrawingVR/

Idk but it has an audible alert or chime like it can say "front door" or "back door" so if Alexa can be trained as she is Ai right so you can perhaps train her so when she hears the digital voice alert for "front door" she knows she is supposed to turn on the garden lights??

@@user-be2mr5su1l, I don't think so. Alexa only wakes to these words: "Alexa", "Amazon," "Echo," or "Computer" . This would make it impossible for the phrases the owl can make to activate the Alexa device. Also, Alexa can only use one wake word at a time, so you'd have to say "Back Door" or "Driveway" each time you wanted to use your Alexa.

I don't know the electronic details of how it does it, but it does. When setting up the sensors, you just wave a hand in front of the one you're setting, and it dings. Then you use a button on the base unit to cycle through the various sounds. You can have up to 32 sensors, and even add several bases if you want the sounds to come from different areas! 😁

@@DaveDrawing It blows my mind that it can do that. I just set up number two today as you just described ad it didnt forget the other one already deployed and now talks to the new one with its own distinct tone. A brilliant little device!

@@traceystock7352 I'm glad you got it figured out! If you decide to get more, check all the prices, because sometimes you can get a set of sensors with a base for less than the same number of sensors.. weird, but it happens. Also, there's no end to the different applications. For example, we put one in the back of our mailbox, and now we get a tone when the mail comes! 😆

@@DaveDrawing I will keep an eye out for those deals! What I'm struggling with now is that one of my fence gates is on the other side of a wooded area because my property line is on the other side of the trees and I had to fence it off due to the new neighbors being trespassers and would be squatters. So now the sensor is going off about 100 times a day due to vegetation movement. I have it strapped to the fence gate facing inwards so they cant see it but my tree branches are moving constantly! Tactical deployment is a challenge with vegetation. But it does work as advertised!

@@traceystock7352 I believe you can adjust the sensitivity distance, maybe that could help?

You might be surprised to learn that we just changed the batteries in the driveway unit last month, meaning they lasted two years! Your results may vary, but I'd say ours gets an average number of hits. 😉

Seven months as of October 13th, all units still running on the original batteries!

Sorry you're having issues. Ours have been functioning perfectly for over four months. We've even added more sensors to cover different areas.

@@DaveDrawing It the alarm loud ? To scare away intruders ?

@@Designer_TopG The alarm has three volume settings, but none are very loud. This is more of an alert system than alarm system. It tells you when someone is in a particular area, but does not alert THEM. We first got it simply to tell us when a car was coming down our long driveway. Now we have one to tell us when animals come to eat at the feeders in our backyard, one on our rear gate entrance, and even one in our mailbox!

I agree, but it depends on what you want it for. I use mine to alert me if someone comes up the back steps to my deck at night. I plug it in by my bed so I can hear it. if you want something to alert wherever you are, you will need something hooked to your doorbell chime or phone.

I run a similar setup and had similar concerns .. and then I put a cheap radio shack 900mhz intercom set to VOX beside the receiver so I can repeat the alerts anywhere.

The motion sensors you put outside (or inside) are powered by three AA batteries (12 months so far, same batteries!), the reciever base plugs in.

@@DaveDrawing thanks , need some for my yard ever since my dog died

@@thuggy67 sorry to her about your furry friend.😕