eMACROS Non-APP Wireless Driveway Alarm — 1/2 Mile Solar Motion Sensor with Plug-in Receiver for Driveways, Homes, Large Properties, Weatherproof Outdoor Security System

Great item. Easy to set up. Works great.

I did not know how this was going to work out after reading how it was supposed to work. However it has been a couple of years since I have owned the driveway alarm, and it is still working after going through a few seasons of harsh rains and snows and freezing temps. Now you have to keep in mind that the sensor is going to pick up flying insects, birds, squirrels climbing the tree that I have it mounted on, and the occasional falling leaf or blowing debree in the wind. The sensor is sensitive picks up almost anything that goes i front of it. I always know when wildlife is around and it always picks up any vehicle that comes up my road. Of course this is what you are wanting it to do, and it does it very well. You just have to be willing to deal with all the other items it can detect. For instance , I have had a lot of flying insect or blowing debree false alarms, but better that it alerts you than not be working correctly. You can't program it to only pick up automobiles and ignore animals, its going to detect it all, even unwanted humans invading your property. The reciever does have a the ability to adjust the volume of the alarm and you can add a couple of more sensor/transmitters to it with different sounds so you will know which sensor is going off around your property. It would come in handy to place one in the back yard to detect intruders. I am just now doing this review and mine is still working very well. At least it is doing well so far. I'm going to be honest and say that I anticipated it to stop working because of harsh weather after a while, but this little alarm system has been doing great. I am thinking of adding another sensor to it.

This may not be the least expensive driveway alert system, but it does work well (so far). I installed it about a month ago. In the woods, where my driveway winds through. The leaves are gone, now that it is winter, so there is sunlight. I charged it up via the USB charger before installing it. That is something that is not clear in the description: You can (and probably should) fully charge it before installing outside. It can be charged like any other electrical device that charges via a USB port. Supposedly, even if there is no sunlight available to charge the battery, it will stay operational for many months if you first charge it via USB. The car detection works fine. A few other things get detected -- such as deer (I assume, since I really can't see what is being detected). But the non-car detections have been few. Set-up is easy. You have about 30 alert sounds to choose from, and you have to pick one. You can scroll through them to hear each one before picking. You can change it to use another sound at any time later. The sounds that are provided are a bit limited, and some people will be dissatisfied with the options. I do not like the "ding-dong" doorbell sound -- because it is too confusing to have to distinguish it from my normal doorbell. So, this option is sort of ridiculous in my opinion, when most doorbells have the "ding-dong" sound. There is no simple "buzzer" sound -- which my previous alert had used. I have no need for the "back door", "side yard", etc. pronouncements (which are only useful if you set up multiple detectors.) I just wanted a sound that I could definitely identify as "car driving up my driveway". There are only a few options available, once the stupid ones are eliminated. I picked the "Adams Family" theme song -- which just plays a few bars. It's fine for my purposes. So, this alert system works well, and I can't yet say how well the solar charging works. My down-grading to 4 stars is only because of the limited number of good sound-alert options available. The ability to send signal through the forest is perfectly good at 700 ft (or, it may be more ft).

Our drive way is 800 feet long and it works great. I love the solar charging. Chimes can be changed to fit your preference. It does pick up deer at night but everyone we have had does the same thing.

It works great. It’s easy to set up and simply works.

We live on 20 acres and have a long, curving driveway. For privacy’s sake, you can’t see our house from the road, which means we also can’t see when someone is here until they’re at the top of our driveway. We can’t always hear if someone drives onto our property and got tired of getting up to check every time one of our dogs barked at a passing bird. I had high hopes but was concerned these wouldn’t work well since we live in the jungle and it rains like 300 days a year. Heavy rains sometimes and I thought for sure the rain, wind, leaves blowing around in the trees would all set these alarms off. Nope, they work like a charm! It took us a couple weeks to get the adjustment for the sensor just right, my husband says they need to be angled just slightly upward to prevent going off for the random animal that passes by...we have wild pigs, mongoose, rats, cats, etc. that would set it off sometimes. Once we got the sensors to stop “seeing” the ground, they only go off when someone walks or drives passed them. Occasionally a bird will fly passed the sensor and set them off, but otherwise we don’t get false alarms from leaves blowing in the wind and they work even in heavy rain. Our neighbor’s black car can get passed the sensor that is farther away when it’s super dark out, but the other sensor always picks up his car. We set up two sensors, one closer to the road and one closer to our house, and we set them to have different “ring tones”. This way we know if the alarms go off in the right order, someone is coming up our driveway. We did this so a random passing animal setting off one sensor wouldn’t have us jumping up to see who was here all the time. Turns out it wasn’t necessary as the animals don’t set them off very often. But it is nice to know if only one alarms sounds, it’s probably nothing. We used the included cord for the alarm speaker to charge the sensors fully before installing them outside. Even on cloudy days they’ve collected enough charge to work through the night. At least we think so since animals kept setting them off at night until we adjusted the sensors correctly. They are super easy to install. The speakers also use batteries so they work if the power goes out. I love this feature as I can carry a speaker out to the greenhouse or elsewhere on the property and still know if someone has come by to visit. It’s also good to know that if someone tries to sneak onto our property in the middle of the night, we would be alerted.

We are loving our new motion sensors from Emacros! This was so easy to set up. It didn't take 5 minutes to figure it out. And it was pretty easy to go out with the screws that they gave us to set it up, to just screw it into some of the wooden posts along the fence line. The whole sensor is on a swivel. So you can move it to the side so you can get to all four screw holes. But it also helps on moving the swivel to aim the motion sensor in the direction you want in at the height that you want. We live on a home with some acreage and we have a long gravel driveway that is more than a quarter mile long. When it goes off, we know an individual is driving up our driveway. The only problem is, when that motion sensor goes off, we are looking to see who this individual is driving up our driveway and being a gravel driveway it takes a while for them to come down and get to my house. And sometimes, we never see a vehicle because it was possibly a deer or something else like that walking in front of it. Only one out of 10 times is it not a vehicle. But we already knew that by having deers, it would set this motion sensor off from time to time. But, to solve both of these problems, we purchased a second motion sensor. And we set it up further down the driveway. This way we know if it's a vehicle, it would set off both motion sensors. Because I don't think a deer is going to walk down my driveway and set off all my sensors. Lol. For people with long driveways, I recommend purchasing at least two sensors. This does an incredible job! Update.... I have 2 in my driveway. 3 years later, neither is working.

5 Stars; no big problems since 2019 when I bought 2. I observed any problems with water penetration of units. The plastic did crack eventually at one screw hole. I think that the plastic is slowly deteriorating by UV from the sun; so I suppose ideally one would paint the plastic w/ UV stopper paint. But this is an unusually good consumer product, as it is faithful, the sensor is powered by solar, & the receiver can be powered either with 4 AA batteries or a supplied power supply (5 volt USB type). The same supplied power supply which gives intitial charge to the sensor unit, also will power the alarm units. After initially charging the sensor unit, the built in solar panel provides the rest of the powering for the sensor unit. When I bought this the separate receivers cost about $50, I decided to go ahead & by a 2nd transmitter/receiver combo; they don't list a sensor-transmitter with 2 receivers as a package unfortunately. I bought 2 morerecently & found that the sensor + alarm package was not that much more than buying a separate sensor. At first, I wanted one receiver for inside & one outside to scare off intruders. It would have been more convenient for me if they had included self-tapping sheet metal screws for installation, as what they provided proved not of high enough quality to penetrate easily a pre-drilled hole in a steel fence hollow rod. The first night I installed the sensor at about 2 feet off the ground , it went off apparently for sensing a cat. Then I changed location of the sensor-transmitter, putting it about 5 feet off the ground, and thus far (2 days) have had no known cat activations. The ability to set the transmitter for 4 different chimes lets you use multiple transmitters in different locations with only 1 receiver; the receiver playing the selected chime for the transmitter activated. I set one chime for Lone Ranger Theme (Wm Tell Overture, & the other for 1812 Overture, as they seemed louded & most attention getting). I set a sensor receiver about 4 feet insider my yard gate on the side fence to which the gate is attached, which is about 40 feet from my front door. I put it back a bit since I did not want passing cars to set off the alarm. Then I put the receiver inside my house, on the cross bar of a window, which window has a metal screen (which I did not remove). The alarm faithfully went off inside the house & I can hear it even in a back room of my house. It even reaches attic (like 2nd floor) towards the back of my house (about 36 feet from front of house, maybe 70-80 feet from the driveway sensor, which is down hill to street. So the range of the RF from sensor to alarm is really good for my purpose. I can now hear the alarms when I am in my study on 2nd floor at rear of my home. At the entrance of my driveway, 1812 overture is set off. As person walks up my driveway, Lone Ranger goes off. When they reach the gate of my inner perimeter fence, I get both alarms. So I get an idea as to where the visitor is. Now nobody needs to ring any door bell. Now it is hard for a delivery person to falsely say he came on Sunday with an Amazon delivery & nobody was home (when we were home). These great units remove the need for a door bell. Maybe I will set up an ooga horn to go off at night if somebody enters my castle grounds, but I don't think they make an ooga variety.

This driveway alarm was perfect for us with the front gate over 100m away from the house and works perfectly and so easy to install ... great product

Very pleased with our purchase, we bought a two pack. This sensor gives us peace of mind that we know when someone pulls into our drive way. Great sensitivity and range. Very easy to set up and being able to change the alert makes it easy to know which sensor is being activated. I cannot comment on the battery life as these were recently purchased. We also purchased more of these sensors for family and friends.

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Easy installation. Good service. After sales support. Works like they say it does. Really pleased with my choice.