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Ring floodlight cam allows you to set which bit of the pir is active and at what range. It is independent of the camera though. The camera sensitivity can be turned down to try and avoid being triggered by cats and the like, not sure if that would also desensitise it to steam.
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Ramsaye
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Cheers, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for. I had a Ring camera before though and wasn't too keen on how it worked.
@jellybaby that's something I'm pondering (albeit a wireless one triggering a connected switch) but the mounting options are pretty limited as there are patio doors, so it would either have to be floor level or right in a corner and I'm not sure how well those would work.
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Struggling with smart (or even not that smart) camera and floodlight options.
We're end of terrace and I want a floodlight, and preferably camera at the side of my house next to the street.
From what I can tell, even the smart camera/floodlights have the floodlight controlled by a PIR and this can't be set with a selective zone. As a result the floodlight turns on when people walk past in the street or a car goes past. Does anyone know of a camera where the floodlight is controlled by a camera where you can select activity zones?
Also a secondary problem that the obvious place to mount a camera/light is near the boiler flue so the camera is being triggered by steam from the flue. Something with some type of image recognition or a much more tunable detection field would be good.