PetSafe Electronic Smart Door

The design of this electronic door is particularly clever and effective. The flap actually descends over a ridge in the frame beneath the flap. The important result is that it is quite rigidly fixed and cannot be pushed open in either direction. A major significance of this fact is that we expect the door to be raccoon-proof. Many electronic pet doors of past years, and some still sold today, control in one direction only. So the flap can't be pushed inward, but some clever raccoons have figured out how to pull the flap outward and duck under to get in. Controlling in both directions solves this problem.

Each Smart Door includes one collar key. The collar key does not interfere with in ground or invisible fencing.

The Electronic Smart Door is self-framing from 1¹/₂" - 2". 

PetSafe has developed self-framing wall kits for both sizes of their electronic Smart Door to ease installation in a wall. The kits adjust from 3 ³/₄" to 7" and there is an extender for the large size only that extends the range to 9".

Power is provided by "D" cell batteries (not included). There is no low battery indicator on the Electronic Smart Door so it might be useful to keep a spare collar key nearby to use for testing purposes. When the activation range begins to decrease it's time to change the batteries.

PetSafe has advised us that these products may be installed in a metal door with some reduction in the sensing range. However, they have never tested this type of installation. We'll note here if someone does and let's us know.

PetSafe Electronic
Smart Door - Large Size

PetSafe Smart Door
Small Size

PetSafe "SmartKey"
(these are waterproof)