I'm looking for recommendations on touch sensors that a dog can activate with his snout. I guess a button would work if it was large enough and not hard to activate. I bought a standalone kit that came with two sensors and a plug in chime. Trained him on it to let us know he needs to go outside or wants back in, and now the one of the sensors is just going off at random. I'd like to go the hubitat route anyway so I can use more than the 2 sensors and 1 chime the kits are limited to.
I believe some of the commercial dog doors use a magnet on the dog collar to trigger a reed switch to unlock the door to let the dog in or out. Most contact sensors have small magnets that only work within 1/2" or so; with a larger magnet, they might work.
These Zigbee buttons are cheap and don't take much force to activate; you could program "push", "double-click", and "hold" to all trigger the same rule.
Also a zigbee switch but definitely easy enough for a dog to activate and it clicks so would give the dog audible feedback. These are 86mm x 86mm square. I use 2,3 & 4 gang versions.
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I think that would probably work. Where does pressure get applied to activate?
At the bottom where the indicator light is. It rotates at the center just like a USA home decora style paddle switch does.
You could mount it in any orientation if that would function better for your dog.
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