I hope for a relatively “lazy” way to detect if there’s car or people movement in my driveway before closing the gates.
I have made an esp based dual relay to operate the linear actuators… So I’m not too shy to make some efforts… However I sorta wanted to take the easy route on this one if available.
I have in the past made a lazer based break beam on an esp8266. However thats not together now. Don’t really want to make another one particularly…
I have some cameras for surveillance running on blue iris so I could use them for the detection of motion. I’d need to create clones of the cameras and target the gate area only… They are a long way away so the area of the gates is a small portion of the image. Thinking this may be a good option however.
However I was hoping I could do this with a motion sensor. However i believe the traditional ones won’t work with a moving car. The Aqara presence sensor may work here but it’s expensive and it needs power…
Any ideas? I do have 12V power near by but not mains.