Long-range Mailbox Sensor/Camera/Alarm

You are very welcome. There’s a guy on etsy.com goes by handle ideaxtruder. He 3d prints all types of covers, boxes, mounts and methods for using Wyze products. Very clever. Its his hobby. I’ve bought about $100 worth of stuff and don’t use most of it. Duplicates of many just to support him. Right now, I have sent him the dimensions of the Yolink contact sensor and asked him to make/print me a couple of boxes that I can use for the sensor - outside. He does amazing things. He’s working on updates for Wyze Sense V2 now. He does other stuff too. Lots.

Yes, you are correct about the garage door sensor. I have it. I didn’t need the opener part, so did not buy it yet. Just the part that mounts on the door. Works great. Reports every time door is opened. Its not a contact sensor. Its go a tilt switch in it. What do they call those? So, when it turns from vertically mounted to horizon, it triggers. A little higher than the contact sensor, but fun just the same.

As I said, I love the small size of Wyze stuff. But now that Sense V2 is larger, what’s the point in being confined to them when Yolink has many more features.

Was playing around with activating a Yolink contact sensor last night. Like Wyze, works with regular magnets, don’t need the bulky worm like magnet sensor to make it work. I buy these long narrow 3/8" wide 3 inch long magnets on Amazon and Gorilla tape them to facings to give me mounting and more surface without the extra width/depth of the Wyze or Yolink magnet side of the sensor. Also they don’t get knocked off when mounted at knee levels like gates.

Also, I find the Yolink response time to open/close faster to the app/phone. I’m not a reviewer so I don’t post my comments on youtube or anything.

Sam :slight_smile:

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