Ambitious project needing initial ideas and sanity check

Other Hardware Home Automation
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Looking to construct a home perimeter network of motion sensors, maybe 5 or 6 of them. With this in place and controlled centrally, I could then do things like activate lights in the different zones, alarms, and cameras..

I would prefer to NOT use cloud services. I have access to my wifi network if necessary. Could maybe use bluetooth? and some direct connections.. Components need to be robust and weather proof. In some cases they may be too far (100 feet) to use wired connections to the sensors.

Any examples out there or ideas? thanks for looking.
Old Guy..

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Hello sea_girl
Check this tutorial for your project to build a radio network.

Have a nice day and enjoy coding in C++.

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I have 13 ESP32's located throughout the property. The ESP32's communicate with a RPi serving as a MQTT Broker. The RPi also does any internet communications with my website as well as image processing and acts as my FTP server.

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thanks I will check it out

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thank you for the information