Re: GE and Alarm.com

["Nick Markowitz Jr." <nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did some sub work for a company that used it and they liked the remote
cotrol and logging ease but guys he had working for hi were pustzes and i
had to end p ripping whole thing out and replacing it with a honeywell set
upo which they liked even better
"tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Nov 9, 9:23 pm, "Roland Moore" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anyone here using Alarm.com? Do they like the service or features? I know
>> Alarm.com only uses GE panels. I am not a big GE guy when it come to
>> regular
>> alarm panels. The only thing GE has that I have been trained on is what
>> was
>> once Infographic Systems (Sapphire Pro and Diamond II) and is now GE
>> Security. For a year and a half after GE bought Infographic Systems we
>> couldn't get parts from GE because we weren't Cassi dealers too. Huh?
>> Apparently they didn't make what GE calls a "bucket" for the dealer
>> network
>> for Infographic Systems only dealers to be able to sell them parts from.
>> The
>> way GE butchered the Infographic Systems product line made me worry about
>> what they'd do to the remains of ITI and Caddx. It seems that GE is
>> really
>> pushing their current NX series so I guess it wasn't something GE could
>> screw up after all.
>
> RHC: Roland, I've casually looked into their offering and it looks
> pretty good for those customers who put a high priority on remote
> control over arming, access to event log recordings etc. I have one
> client who is desperate to get this kind of control, but he has a
> Paradox system installed by me, and alarm.com's service as you say
> only works with GE panels. However, the client called me up the other
> day and said that alarm.com have a new alliance with Bell Canada, who
> are currently marketing low end, non-supervised wireless equipment of
> some type...I don't know the make, but it doesn't look like
> professional equipment. He's even gone so far as to ask me if I would
> buy back the old hardware. I told him that it would be very foolish to
> remove a high end alarm system and replace it with basically junk,
> simply to get the features that alarm.com offers but he may yet do so.
> And since he is the ONLY customer who has ever asked me for this kind
> of thing, I can't see it being a really big seller. As time goes on
> however, I suspect it will become more popular. But it strikes me more
> as a company "selling the sizzle not the steak", but I could be
> wrong...
>
> I guess if a scam artist like Alarm Force can make it big, so can
> these guys, since they do seem to offer something real. I too would
> like to hear from an end user customer who has used Alarm.com's
> service to see if it's all it's cracked up to be....
>