Are there indoor motion detectors that do not respond to animals?

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Do you have a name or manufacturer for those?

I’m interested in that too. We have motion detectors in the hallway and the basement and a dog and 2 cats, so that would be practical. But it would still have to detect our children; the youngest is now 120 cm tall. I would be grateful for tips.

Secondly, lamps in the hallway should not only turn on at night but also during the day when I move there.

Why shouldn't that be possible? As soon as room brightness < X, it switches on, after xx o'clock only half of the lights and at 10% brightness. That has nothing to do with the original problem.

Do you have a name or manufacturer for those?

You need a wall sensor with a fixed or adjustable detection angle. Sometimes you can also cover parts of it. If the sensor only detects horizontally at installation height and above, everything smaller than the installation height remains invisible. But you have to test this in practice beforehand; it's not always that simple. The sensor also can't tell whether the cat comes at night or I, completely drunk, am crawling on the floor looking for the bed :p

That certainly doesn't work on staircases due to the different heights? We have 2 detectors on one staircase so that they also cover the corridors at night for the children.

Why shouldn't that work? As soon as room brightness < X is switched, from xx o'clock only half of the lights and at 10% brightness. That has nothing to do with the original problem.

It was about the question of whether the animals really need to run around at night, implying that the whole thing only needs to work at night. But it has to work just as well during the day, and the animals run around even more then.

With us, it is the Gira System 2000. Our electrician set it up, no idea how he limited the height. The motion detectors are each about 1.50m away from the staircase. The child is now just over 1.30m and it has worked all these past years.

The control with BM is already the right way. Why complicate it further? If you have LED lamps, the power consumption in the hallway for those few minutes a day is negligible.