Tapo Door Sensor Mounts (completed)

A relative needed some mounts for a couple  Tapo T110 door sensors .  One of them is going on a garage door (right side in the pic), and it needs a special mount, and the other is going on a regular door (left in the pic), but and needs a spacer for the base and a 90° mount for the magnet.  They provide some really chunky double sided tape with these, and for some reason, they designed them to be flush mounted, instead of having the sensor mounted to a door jam and the sensor on the door (or vice versa).  That works great for things like sliding windows, but not so great for doors.  To address that, I designed a mount for the magnet, which can install on a door frame, and rotates the sensor 90°, along with a spacer for the sensor base (which will mount to the door in this case).  I think if they had just made the magnets rectangular, instead of the fancy rounded shape, they could be mounted in either orientation.  These mounts should be much more secure though, and will use VHB tape, instead of the thick 4mm foam tape that TP-Link provides.  There will also be screw hole options on the door mount and spacer.  

These will be tested soon, since they are keen to get their sensors installed.  Once I get done with some prints for the Voron  Spares Case, these will be next (printed in PETG).

Update: I think with enough VHB tape, any such mounting solution could work.  The door mount went smoothly, but the garage door mount sheared off on the first attempt.  After looking at the problem for a minute, I just moved the mount up one level on the door, and added more VHB tape to the mount that sits in the rail (which holds the magnet).  The rail mount was made a bit oversized, so I could add tape to adjust it, and it turns out I did need to adjust it.  The mount for the sensor on the other hand, could have used a few mm more clearance on the sides where it slips over the beam on the garage door, since I was not able to fit any tape there.  It has enough tape, but I think if I do release the design, it will have just a tad more space so some tape can be put on the sides to hold it a bit better.  I could just run a screw through it, and there would be no question about it moving (and I may do that once I am sure it works without issues).

I also added another custom mount to metal gate, but that one is probably too custom a solution to be worth posting.  I'm gonna tweak the designs a bit, and then will post them.  They will however be posted as-is with a note that they may not work for every application, but may work for some at least.

7/16/2025:  These have been posted over on MakerWorld, with the STEP to make remixing easier.
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​https://makerworld.com/en/models/1613261-tapo-t110-sensor-mounts-with-step