Weatherizing open/close door sensors for outdoor gate use

[JDRoberts]

It’s pretty easy to find contact sensors intended for garages that are made for weather extremes. Then you cable that to pretty much any zwave contact sensor and put the zwave contact sensor itself in a weatherproof relay box. Or maybe even run the cables indoors, depending on location. See the following discussion:

SmartSense Multi use for an outside gate

Long story short, I have a gate on my deck to keep a crazy escape dog away from the neighbors. The problem is, I also have family members that think this particular gate being closed is optional. Of course, they don’t have to pay the $50 fine for said crazy escape dog running loose in the neighborhood. Anyways, I bought a SmartSense Multi, I have it enclosed in this (not trying to advertise for amazon here): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00REFK1A8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 My goal, was to switch the device type to Garage, but (from SmartThings support) it only notices a change in X and Y orientation, and not X (horizontal) orientation movements. I would put it on just movement sensing, but that’s as touchy and sensitive as my mother-in-law, and would false trigge…