Looking to install a driveway detector. Anyone using one and your recommendation for brand? Need something simple that goes ding ding or some other noise inside the house.
Theft isn't a problem. About 100-125 foot distance is needed.
Thank you for your help.

Sarge

I had a cheap Harbor freight one that worked ok, problem I had was it detected every car, school bus, and truck that drove past the house, it was ding ding overload.Not sure if it would have picked up deer and turkeys, but if it did I'd never get any sleep, lol
Not sure on the range but 100' sounds right

Thanks for the info.
Need one incase my dogs are outside. They are trained not to go down the driveway, it's 230 yards long. Usps and ups deliver packages all the time. So, it gives me time to get them in so no conflict.
Plus just knowing if anyone wants to be nosey. I can greet and meet them. LOL

Sarge

I also have the cheap harbor freight driveway alarm by my doors. I mostly wanted so I wouldn't know when delivery people came to door.
Like gcs stated it is pretty sensitive dinged for every sparrow or leaf that flew by. I moved the sensor couple different times. Even put a pop can over them with a slot cut in it. That narrowed the sensor windows to lesson the dinging. Still was annoying and made dogs bark. So I now have it set just so the light flashes don't ping. That has seemed to work for us and our needs.

Mac

Know a guy that used one to check out the deer in his backyard, so I guess it works for them, said it saved him from constantly looking out the window.... he might have taken some huge bucks,...

That right there is a great idea. I have deer come into the back yard. Usually kill one or two a year off the back porch.
With a sensor. I can just wait until it dings then go out and shoot it without getting cold waiting. Yes, it is being lazy. I don't care as long as there is meat in the freezer. Lol

Sarge

We had a driveway alarm and it was moderately useful. When it chimed, you had to go look and see what was there. I now have 8 Blink video cameras. They also chime when they detect motion. More importantly, they capture the video image of what set them off. We can view that video image anywhere we can use our cell phones. I can listen to the sound captured with the video image too. I can blow up the video image to easily see details like license plate numbers. I can save the video images. I can send the images to other people. I can talk through the cameras. The cameras have excellent low light and full dark video captures.

I recommend getting a camera or cameras instead.

Keith

We have a now discontinued Chamberlin, which ran on infrared sensors, so picked up people and animals, including dogs, barn cats, deer, varmints and even the chickens. Vehicles give off enough heat from engines it picks up those too. For some reason, it started malfunctioning and kept going off all the time, nothing there.

We had same at farm, but due to dogs etc, it would also go off all the time. Was replaced by a unit that somehow picks up an induction pulse off vehicles. Has to be within 10 feet or so of the vehicle to sense it. But does work. Does not pick up people or animals.

Of the two, for our purposes, I liked the infrared version that also picks up animals.

We have the Google home cameras now. Your right, you get an alert to your phone and the image, etc....the driveway alert was before this new camera tech

I have a cheap one, $42, htzsafe security system, that I place the sensor on my coyote bait, and the receiver plugs in the outlet in my bedroom. I have shot over 50 coyotes from my house window in the last several years. Works great , sensor transmits up to 1/2 mile.