Re: RELIABLE LATE-TO-OPEN AUTOMATED DEVICE FOR TEXT/ EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS TO CUSTOMER

["Bob La Londe" <none@none.com99>]

"Jim Davis"  wrote in message
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On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 10:43:00 PM UTC-4, mleuck wrote:
> On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 8:56:25 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
> > Most reliable late to open notification I've seen is from a real
> > professional central station.  That being said, several real
> > "professional" central stations out there AREN'T.  I got lucky with Az
> > Security Controls, but E24 and that Cats guy can go pound sand.  Most
> > will not provide service directly to end users though.
>
> Better to bypass the central station and use external sources such as
> Alarm.com, AlarmNet, Telular or Napco assuming each offers the service.
> Would you rather get a phone call as notification or an email document or
> text message?
>
> Our central station does old style late to open notification but that is
> quickly being supplanted by Alarm.com and AlarmNet

Opening and closings in printed form seems to be more desirable than text's
and each-event emails ---- to larger corporations.

Central station costs usually points Small businesses and homeowners to want
the text and emails.

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Az Security did text, email, phone call, printed report, remote activity
login on demand, or a combination thereof as desired by the customer atleast
a decade ago.  Longer on some of those.  They even had their own IP
communicator for a while until the rest of the industry caught up.  There
was suspicion (rumor) some guys at UL tried to bootleg their system when
they asked for all their source code, and that is why they switched to FM
listing instead.  None of that was accused explicitly. Just suspicion.  I
was told they'd never asked for source code before.  FM just tested that it
performed as described.  Every AHJ I worked with accepts FM Listing.

I lost an account to Shadow Scan many many years ago.  I was told the
president of the company played golf with a guy from Shadow Scan.  Anyway
they spent almost a year trying to figure out how to do what I was able to
provide and ultimately when they finally did switch the service over the
local store manager told me they got none of extra services I was providing
and their bill was almost double.