Since I have installed the mask over my front driveway motion sensor, I have not had any heatwave notifications. People, cars, and cats are picked up with the mask. Early on tilting the top of the motion sensor 30° downward from vertical eliminated street traffic, but not the heat waves on the drive…

Excellent work and documentation! Thanks!

Why didn’t I think of that! It doesn’t get much simpler. Thanks.

My sensor still looks like a little camera and makes people nervous when they see it. Yours now looks like an inconspicuous sensor. :+1:

Thanks for this tip. I have a sensor in my newspaper box. Of course the newspaperbox faces away from the street. No one knows its there. No one walks in line of sight. But I keep getting these alerts that its triggered. So one day recently I was walking perpendicular to the opening with my phone …

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Nice clean design.

I just put a piece of Scotch cellophane tape directly over the sensor dome for my exterior motion sensors.

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