Home Wireless Monitoring System Alarm 82.24 exc delivery

gromituk

Yes, an internal one, disabled with one blow from a heavy object.

king_3

gromituk wrote:

What's the good of a burglar alarm that rings you to tell you you've been burgled? By the time you can do anything about it, the damage has been done.

As to alarm boxes, well I guess it depends where you are - if you are the only house in the street which has one, or the only house which doesn't, then I guess you are more at risk. I really don't think you can generalise to say you are more likely to be burgled if you don't have one. Good old locks and other low-tech measures are much more important than fitting alarms.

It makes me feel better )
It deters the burglar, as suggested by the police and my poor friend’s experience
It tells me if I got trouble at home, thief/fire, so I could ring police/fire service

gromituk

Yes, it makes you feel better and is a nice shiny thing with lights and buttons to play with, I'll grant you that.

You can't take your friend's experience as gospel (the sample is far too small and doesn't take into account all manner of other factors), and even if you did, you could buy a dummy box for less than £10 and it would be as effective a deterrent.

Yes, it tells you there is trouble at home, which could just as well be a false alarm. Now, if you were actually at home, you could confirm it were a false alarm, but you're not. So if you call the police or fire service, they're hardly going to put you at the top of their list of priorities are they?

There's a reason why the emergency services forbid you to program these devices to call them directly...

--Tony--

gromituk wrote:

Yes, an internal one, disabled with one blow from a heavy object.

I see your breezing though all the threads adding your normal swathe of negativity Gromit.

gromituk

It's "you're" - an abbreviation for "you are"; "your" is a possessive.

Negativity to you; realism to me. "Moneysaving" can easily slide into knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. Just because something's reduced in price doesn't mean you should go headlong into buying it without thinking things through first. That is moneywasting, not moneysaving. See it as a service to people's pockets.

So how would you react if you were a burglar who broke into a property with no external alarm, to be confronted by a flimsy plastic box at chest height, making a noise? If it weren't that noisy you'd ignore it; if it were preventing you from hearing people approaching you'd simply pick up the nearest object and smash the box. The fact that it might be telephoning someone is immaterial: by the time that person arrives, or summons someone else, you'd be long gone.

LionKing

I think the key part of an alarm is it is a deterrant.

If a thief is determined to rob your house there is not much you can really do. However a random opportunist thief is unlikely to select to rob a house with an alarm if there are houses on the same street without one

swinnertond

I got the fire alarm for it from pc world. It's nice to know you havn't left something that has burned the house down while your out. The panic option on the keyfob also sets you at ease if you live on your own for example. Everyone on your contact list (admitedly only 3 and one of them is yourself) is called and text to say you have hit the panic button. could also be used as a monitoring system similar to those in sheltered housing for example. An old relative living on the own could hit the panic option if the fall over for instance.

ShaunJUK

gromituk wrote:

Yes, it makes you feel better and is a nice shiny thing with lights and buttons to play with, I'll grant you that.

You can't take your friend's experience as gospel (the sample is far too small and doesn't take into account all manner of other factors), and even if you did, you could buy a dummy box for less than £10 and it would be as effective a deterrent.

Yes, it tells you there is trouble at home, which could just as well be a false alarm. Now, if you were actually at home, you could confirm it were a false alarm, but you're not. So if you call the police or fire service, they're hardly going to put you at the top of their list of priorities are they?

There's a reason why the emergency services forbid you to program these devices to call them directly...

I am not saying this is going to happen every time, but I was once about 30 miles from home and recieved a txt from mine, I rang my local police straight away and reported it, 10 mins later they rang me back and said they had checked it out and everything was fine

king_3

ShaunJUK wrote:

I am not saying this is going to happen every time, but I was once about 30 miles from home and recieved a txt from mine, I rang my local police straight away and reported it, 10 mins later they rang me back and said they had checked it out and everything was fine

Ordered mine to replace my old alarm, which beeps in the middle of the night for no reasons.

eilz

dc2447 wrote:

Cracking deal

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Does anyone know if there is a way of adding a camera to this alarm?The two options I was looking into was :1)either a DIY CCD Camera setup, which uses a DVR card in the PC and monitoring software to sense movement from the cameras (wireless or non option), approx (£150) plus you have to use a PC, with internet access to see your house online or call if alarm is set off.2) Use option 1) plus the BT system to get both an alarm system and a camera system, but I really want something that works together.