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Like ..... how much time out of your day do you want to have to spend
tending to your alarm system? How much time do you want to spend tweeking
it? If you don't want to have a professional do it then you might be able to
get some ideas from them to even out the operation of the system. Don't
worry about your wife. If you want security and it's set up properly you
should wind up with only a few options for arming the system. She'll learn
it. Obviously if you ask first, you'll only make it more complicated trying
to allow for every contingency she'll bring up.

You seem to be stuck on using motion detectors outside. If motion detectors
are used outside they should be used in a controlled environment. If your
back yard has animals running around in it, that's not controlled. Not
perfect but better is the use of photo electric beams. They can be
paralleled and paralleled with motion detectors and with the proper alarm
panel .... "zone anding" with multiple zones and "local alarm on first zone
trip" can be used to reduce false alarms. With an appropriate camera, an
IPhone and a reasonably priced DVR you can be notified by E-mail and look in
on events and can look back at events. You can even utilize the motion
sensing options of the DVR paralleled with your Photo beams and other
devices to further "logic out" false alarms.

And all of this is available in the hookup and programing of the system.
Obviously it would take some planning but usually a favorable compromise can
be arrived at and it all takes place behind the scenes simply by arming the
system in the home or away mode. The one thing that gets in the way is that
you've taken the easy way out by buying a really inexpensive system  and
it's a wireless system to boot. You can't easily parallel devices with a
wireless system. I'm sure you don't have the expertise to do a system like
this and the learning curve is too steep a climb for a one time
installation. That's why there are professionals out there. I hear your
reluctance to use an alarm installation company but the chances of them even
caring about what you have or don't have for nefarious purposes is so remote
it's almost laughable. If you do your research properly, you'll find an
accepable company to work with. And it won't be ADT.

If you want it to work and be easy to use ya gotta pay up front. You can't
have a Cadilac for the price of a Kia. The Kia will get you there but
everytime you don't have the pickup or comfort or convenience you know you
could have had, you'll wish you'd saved up for the better car. And an alarm
system is going to in your life a lot longer than a car.

Bottom line? My suggestion is to bite the bullet, put your effort and
obvious tenacity into locating a professional who can provide you with the
system that you need rather than wasting your time trying to learn how to
install and Rube Goldburg a cheap panel that requires constant attention and
fiddling and which you will probably not use to it's greatest worth in the
end ..... anyway. Which ... by the way .... could very well be the reason
your wife is so reluctant to have an alarm system.

Don't take this personal. I've been in this industry for 43 years. I've met
you before.

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Jim,

You just wasted a whole lot of typing time on a guy that has his mind made
up and you will never convince him with the facts.  I have met him as well.

BTW, Nice typing skills.

Les