Anyone got recommendations for the best home
security option?
What I mean is, how to handle the alarm
triggering and what to do. I am currently considering options for
installing an alarm system and need to know what kit I should be installing
(Cameras, sirens, trigger to monitoring station etc.)
Speaking to a friend in the business, he
suggests that monitored systems have a number of restrictions and end
up being quite costly for service contracts and having to be reset by
official engineers each time they are triggered etc. He also suggests
that some companies make you agree to have them officially serviced every 6
months etc. Just thinking this might be a bit tricky if I go the
Comfort/HA controller route where a lot of the security logic may end up
being programmed.
So my question is really, what does your
system do when the alarm goes off?
Buy a system with a digicom or
speechdialer, that way it can alert your mobile if the alarm is triggered
and you can listen in etc
Should I be buying security cameras and
recording video on alarm, or phoning my neighbours and getting them to come
round, or just turning on all the lights and hoping that the intuders get
scared off?
If they want to get in, they will..period. It just depends how
badly and who they are. I went to a burglary where the thief had gone after
toby jugs, he had opened the collectors books on rare jugs, studied
it, selected the most expensive 2 and left the other 30 or so jugs
!!
Camera wise I tend to use the Adeva CAM8's. A cheap and
cheerful stand-alone unit, cameras have PIR activation and only record when
the PIR is triggered. I regularly use these for covert survielance
situations (to good success) as the cameras are not too obtrusive,
have built in IR iluminators and have pretty good resolution, even in low
light. The system is easy to install and can be set to home, away,
scan and manual modes, plus the cameras can be set to activate at certain
times in different modes and they will take a 12 volt trigger off an alarm
pannel, to put them into away mode, so when you arm your alarm the sysrem
goes into away mode. They have RF in and out plus SCART connectors. My
local retailer sells them to me at £300 +VAT for a unit plus 3 cameras,
which is pretty cheap for a good quality camera system. Plus the cameras
have audio and cam1 can be audio triggered (good for baby monitoring). When
the cameras are triggered you can set them to change the TV channel so that
yo
u can see what is being monitored. These cameras are not like the cheap
systems sold by the DIY sheds (Although maplins sell them at much
higher cost !!)
Other than comfort, are there any other alarm
systems that ppl rate?
Personally I rate the Gardiner
Technologies 800 series pannels..but they aren't cheap. They seem to be a
popular choice for most commercial and shop-premises (you can tell by
the keypads).
Any help appreciated as always,
-Dan
Simon
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