I’m brand new to home automation and I have a vague idea that RFID/NFC tags exist. And that’s it. I have an iPhone and have nothing else in the way of materials. No Google home or Alexa or any smart bulbs yet. I’m looking for the easiest and simplest (cheapest) solution.
My problem:
Our dogs and our neighbors dogs have beef. We share a ranch fence so they try to attack each other through the wire. We’re looking for a way to notify each other that we’re outside with the dogs so we’re not outside at the same time.
I’m picturing something that senses my dog passing through our doorway and turns on a colored bulb then turns it off when the dog comes back through.
I don’t want a motion sensor because we have lots of movement in our yard and I don’t want the light to turn on if it’s just *me* in the yard. And we tried doing this manually with our porch light and would forget to turn it off. Trying to take out human error and just something that I can attach to my dog’s collar or a sensor that detects her microchip or something. I don’t want it to have to detect my phone because I want it to be linked to the dogs presence, not mine, if someone else has to come let her out or my phone is annoyingly far away.
Again I’m obviously a complete beginner and have no idea where to even start. Any and all help/direction would be appreciated thank you!