Anyone done a glade automatic spray mod?

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Having a lot of trouble with my glade spray used in a toilet. They have two different products with different refills for some reasons.

They have a PIR sensor product that sprays when it detects someone in the room and sprays no frequently than 20 minutes.

edit: this is nuts but on aliex there is a product that fits glade cans, has a clock to set your custom spray intervals.

There is another product that timed which sprays either 9, 18 or 36 minutes. In a loop. No PIR, some models have an on demand button up top but the on demand button isn’t usable as the spray is placed high up in the room.

I have the latter, it is annoying to use in the bathroom - I prefer using nice reed diffusers in the living spaces and use glade in the bathroom. There is so much to improve on it.

    1. It sprays round the clock, 24 hours, not easy to disable it. Would have preferred if it had a clock and disabled the auto spray from 12 midnight to 8am
    1. often you want it to spray immediately after a toilet event, which we can’t do because we put it high up so it doesnt spray into kids faces by accident and kids dont mess with it - the button is at the top of the unit and not accesible for on demand sprays - would have preferred it have a PIR activation as well.
    1. WOuld have preferred if it could use refillable non-aerosolised fragrance so we could fill it with natural fragrances with less chemicals.
    1. An on demand button similar to amazons re-order buttons would be nice which can be placed in a more accessuible location which will allow kids to use the spray.

Has anyone does a project on this? I havn’t got a clue on where to start on arduino so would be great to have the code ready to copy and a rough step by step guide as a beginner into electornics/arduino.

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Good luck with this - sorry I can’t assist. But I will, in future, be employing the euphemism ‘toilet event’ when referring to a ‘number two’. And surely PIR sensor product is a ‘motion detector’…

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As a random thought, maybe you could use a cistern-located water sensor as a “trigger on flush” which would avoid having dirty fingers pressing buttons.

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do you have a sense of about when you’re likely to be in the space working on this? ive got some nasty allergies to artificial fragrances so ideally id like to get myself out of your way if you’ve got them around for a project

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That’s actually a better idea and more intelligent way to detemine demand. Do you happen to know what might be the best (cheapest) trigger for this?

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This is a small home project that I’d probably just do at home and not bring with me to the space. if I do - the actual spray can isnt required for building and testing the mechanism. I’ll bare that in mind.

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