Am i allowed to install a door sensor?

[Michael1107]

 

So my airbnb is very small and simple, actually the apartment is big, the guest's room  is big, but what the guest see is corridor and bathroom and they are small.

When a guest enters he has his room in front of him, the bathroom at his left, and onother door at his right that he does not not have access to.

I can be there during the day but i sleep at my mothers house.

So most of the time guest check out by themselves, they leave the keys on the table and close the door(without the keys).

For safety i want to install a door sensor, basically if the door opens when I'm not home in a day with no guests or after the last guest has check out i recieve a signal on my phone

So i would put it on the outside door, the brown one, not on the internal white doors. Am i allowed to do that? I don't know if some guests would not understand what it is and complain 

 

 

 

[Mike-And-Jane0 · Accepted solution]

@Michael1107 if the door sensor is similar to those that are used in burglar alarm systems I can't see any guest complaining. Now if it is, or looks like, a camera I can see them complaining!

[Michael1107]

Hello @Mike-And-Jane0!

To be honest i didn't choose one yet because I'm looking for one that's compatible with Alexa so i don't have to spend extra money for onother hub, but they all look almost the same

There's no camera, no light that might get confused for a camera detector or something, it's just 2 magnet signals basically 

[Renee291]

Why not use a Ring doorbell with a camera that is outside the entrance door to the home? If you disclose the exterior camera it should not be a problem.  I use one so I can monitor the property when it's vacant.  You get notified of motion detected. Have you considered a combination lock box for the keys as well? I change the combo for each guest to the last 4 digits of their phone number. 

[Michael1107]

Im not allowed to put anything externally! this a block of flats, outside the entrance door i have no private space or garden, there is just the common stairs that other neighbor use to go to their flats, no one is allowed to put anything