Who has enabled their alarm output to turn on their water sprinkler irrigation systems? DOGS!!!!!!!

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0460dirt

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Dec 26, 2024
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Talking about the, rude, neighbors, slash animals, that bring their dogs to POO and urinate on your grass. My cams have strobes and audible alerts. They sit there and let little scooter finish off his log and walk off. Stare right at the cameras with no care in the world. Like my yard is their own private dog park. Pisses me off. Try to keep a nice lawn spending in the low thousands each year. "Trying" to keep it nice looking.

Think my Rain Bird uses a low voltage 24 volt system to fire off the zone solenoids. Surely one could connect the alarm output once I figure out what type of alarm it is and send it to your irrigation controller? Might have to look into this.
 
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Definitely you could wire the sprinklers to your NVR's alarm relay.
Literally the NVR's relay could connect the 24v from the PSU directly to the zone solenoid, bypassing the Rainbird system. Then the NVR maintains it's control of how long the sprinklers are on for.

But maybe to save long wires between your NVR and the Rain Bird: Does your Rain Bird have any wireless sensors available? Something you could program to immediately trigger the sprinklers for 30s.
Something like a wireless door sensor, open it up and wire to the NVR's relay output.
 
There are motion sensor sprinklers to attach to a hose. Critter Ridder is one. Also there are ultrasonic devices that allegedly ward off deer, etc. Not as high tech as an NVR with AI but might work. Some cameras will let you load own sounds. Maybe a dog barking would be enough to distract it.
 
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There is a cheap Zigbee based water valve.
Costs about 20$ operated by batteries and compatible with Zigbee2mqtt.
I have one but didn't install yet.
 
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