Mailbox Detection

[rcjordan]

For metal mailbox contact sensors try the 'Long Range' Visonic MCT-370 SMA. Mine's working great.

Zibgee Long Distance Mailbox Setup

The MailChime-Contact Sensor hack has worked most of the time over the last couple of years but the intermittent failures galled me. Enter a couple of long range zigbee devices recently mentioned in the HE forum: Routers like Tube ZB & Visonic MCT-370 SMA contact sensor I placed the router in a front windowsill with a not-too-good line-of-sight to the metal mailbox 200 feet away. There are shrubs and a couple of small trees blocking a straight path. I put the contact sensor in the mailbo…