STKR Concepts 00135 Side Garage Parking Sensor - Easy Guide System

This sensor attaches it self to the garage door's rail with the provided mount. The mount does not require any tools as you just need to push it in place and the sensor stays in place. To remove, just use a flat screw driver to push up the tabs. The sensor is easy to remove from the mount for battery replacements. It uses 4 AA batteries and there is NO USB option for it. Setup is easy and I just parked my car closer than what I need, clicked the button once to set the distance, then park away. The response is not super fast or super slow, so it responds fast enough when parking a car at slow speed. So far, I have been able to park my car extremely close to items with no issues. It has green, yellow, flashing yellow and red alerts. The red alert emits a tone. I park my car on using the flashing yellow. How good is it? I purchased another one.

This is definitely a first-world problem, but parking the car in the garage varies dramatically between a bike rack and bikes fitted to the car vs. not. When the bikes are on the car's rear tow hitch, the car needs to be around 3 feet further forward in the garage to clear the door. A neighbor showed me this device and I immediately purchased one as they were on sale. It seems well-made and was very simple to install using the supplied Velcro for the main unit and the sensor below. There are two options for powering the unit, either 4 x AA batteries or via a USB cable. The unit is not supplied with a USB cable or power supply but most households now have a kitchen junk drawer that has plenty of these from other products. And if not they are readily available to buy at a low cost. I connect mine via the USB cable as there is an outlet close to where the unit was fitted. Setting up the parking distance is a simple case of pressing the red button on the front. I have it calibrated so I can easily judge the ideal parking distance for when the bikes are on the car, or not. Not sure how long the Velcro will stay stuck as the garage is hot during the summer but so far its staying put. Overall a great purchase.

Easy to set up, works well. Battery life is a joke. Requires usb power supply. Cycling on and off whenever ambient lighting changes drains Battery within a week

I ordered this due to it being exactly the sort of aid we need for our garage, and because the free-standing stop signs tend to lose durability after 1-2 years and bow over. This device does have a USB-C power input on the side, but I have now tried two different STKR units now, and the USB power feature is completely non-functional on both. The exact same USB power works fine on my phone and all other USB-C devices I tested the power with, so it is not an issue with my power supply. I have seen videos of units working on USB power, so I know it's possible, but when 2/2 units are defective for me, I'm not going to continue ordering this same product repeatedly until I get one that somehow works. As both units I received were defective, this product appears to have terrible quality control or build quality. I did not test my units with batteries, because battery life is reportedly terrible and I need something I can run on wall power. These do not reliably run on USB power based on my experience.

For this price, wow! It works perfectly as advertised. Even your wife will want to get rid of the tennis ball. I worried about how long the batteries would last but I've been using the unit for several months and haven't had to replace any yet. And there's a port on the main unit where you can plug in a phone charger plugged into the wall that will provide constant power to the unit. But the phone charger isn't included in the package.What you do is put a 2 AA battery operated unit that outlines your license plate on the front of your car, or back if you want to back into the garage. Then you use the provided velcro to attach a little sensor to the wall at the height of the place your bumper sticks out the farthest. Then there's a four foot wire running from the sensor to the main unit and you find a place where you can see it form your car. It was all the way up for my pickup. Then you can either use the provided two sided tape tabs to attach the unit to the wall, or there is a screw slot where you can put a screw in the wall and hang the unit, which I opted to do and it works great. No screw was included though.Next you experiment a little bit with your vehicle to figure out where you want to stop it so that it will allow the garage door to close. The unit's default is set to stop you 1 foot from the wall and I found that left the back of my truck three feet inside the garage which was just right for me, so that's all I had to do. To customize, you simply figure out where you want the vehicle to come to rest, go to the main unit, and press the red button. Then that's where it will stop you every time.So when you pull in, an easy to see green light lights up and when you get a few feet away from the wall, it turns yellow. Then you slowly continue pulling in until it turns red, stop, and you will be right where you need to be every time. It's really fun at first and even later, it's a heck of an improvement over a tennis ball or some kind of block sticking out of your garage floor. I'd try one of these before I went with a much more expensive unit that works with your phone too. I'm hearing they don't sync so well. And I find this unit to work plenty good for what I want, which is just some peace of mind instead of cringing every time I close my garage door in fear that I didn't pull in far enough. And... getting rid of that ugly tennis ball. Sorry Hon.

This works great. This is my second one - the first one worked fine for several years but I accidently damaged it (treat the sensor part carefully.) Once you get used to having help getting the car in the right place it was hard to do without it. I think the new one has brighter lights than the first one. Just go slow, there's not a lot of distance between green, yellow and red.Don't plan on using it with battery power though, batteries only last a few days. I already had a battery eliminator so I'm using that instead of the available usb port. The old one didn't have the usb option, so I had to buy a battery eliminator kit so I just used that on the new one.