I just received my Floodlight v2, and I’m planning to replace an existing floodlight at the entrance to my garage. I was reading the Getting Started booklet, and it shows examples of mounting 10 feet off the ground and a 30-foot distance for triggering the lights. Does anyone know the trigger distance if I install it 8 feet off the ground? The existing floodlight is only 8 feet up.
I just installed it. Can’t wait for tonight to try it out 
This is what the camera sees. I don’t want the lights to come on each time a car drives down the alley, just if they come onto my driveway. Any advise is appreciated.
I’ll send some of my 
gang over to test it out. 
Block the road and sidewalk in the Detection zone.
LOL
There is no sidewalk. There is an ally where cars drive by. I plan to record continuously and don’t mind it picking up cars (I’m not planning to send myself alerts at this time). I’m more concerned about the lights triggering when cars drive by. I assume the “detection zone” doesn’t trigger the lights, right?
The PIR motion sensor for the lights is mounted on the bottom of the cam. From what I’ve seen here, there is a separate setting in the app where you can adjust the sensitivity of that PIR sensor. It is basically the same sensor your old floodlight had, that one probably had switches or a dial for adjusting sensitivity, this one is done via the app.
Correct. I have it set to less than the out-of-the-box for now. I will play with that setting once night comes. I don’t want the lights to come on when a car drives by, if possible.
A cool feature would be a way to overlap the PIR Settings picture over your image, so I could see how big or small to make it so it misses the alley. You can also turn off sections of it. I guess it just takes messing with it to get it just right. Thanks everyone for your help!
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PIR is so sensitive to differences in environments I think it would be pretty much impossible for them to get an accurate correlation between that and the camera. I’ve set up many PIR lights in my life and it is really just a trial and error thing.
Though I believe the battery cam does actually offer the PIR overlay with the video, but I also believe people have complained it is not accurate, which isn’t surprising. But in that case the PIR is specifically for motion/event detection with the camera so I assume the sensor is more integrated into the camera and a bit easier for them to try and get that correlation programmed.
Does it not have a “test” mode where you can tune it during the day? Most standard motion sensor lights have that, but I haven’t owned any “smart” ones.
Shouldn’t be a problem to get it so cars driving by don’t trigger it, just may take a bit of trial and error over time (around here I usually have to tweak mine a bit when the weather gets colder or warmer and usually end up with a good compromise between the two, though in your case you could easily tweak it a couple times a year if needed, easier to do from the app than on a ladder with a dial or switch).
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