Recommended House Alarms

jbondo

benson1980 wrote: »

No problem. Do you need the keypad? We just use our phone most of the time but there's obviously the fobs as well...the keypad seemed a little pointless

The one I'm going to get from safe.co.uk (quoted in first post) has the keypad included, whether we'll use it or not is a different matter

Typhoon2000

With the Pyronix, you have the option of keypad, touch fob ( both by touch input on the keypad, or at a remote location say by the front door), app, and remote control fob ( also works as a panic button even when the alarm is off).

benson1980

jkility wrote: »

The one I'm going to get from safe.co.uk (quoted in first post) has the keypad included, whether we'll use it or not is a different matter

Yes but the one without it is £40 cheaper.....that’s the one we have

jbondo

benson1980 wrote: »

Yes but the one without it is £40 cheaper.....that’s the one we have

Have
you got a link to that one you could share?

pinkteapot

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

Agree with the points above but my view is that if you’re on a typical street or estate and your neighbours generally don’t have alarms, any visible alarm system probably means an opportunist will go elsewhere.

This. A few years back there was a spate of burglaries on an estate I lived on. On my cul-de-sac of 20 houses, two were broken into and they were the only two without alarms - may be a coincidence but seems unlikely.

To that end, so long as you've got an alarm installed it doesn't really matter which system you have.

Alarm and CCTV is probably going to be an even better deterrent.

benson1980

jkility wrote: »

Have
you got a link to that one you could share?

https://www.safe.co.uk/products/era-homeguard-smart-alarm-pro-premium-kit.html

longwalks1

googler wrote: »

I don't think there's any value in a system which detects intruders once they're inside. We have an internal sensor system with external bell box, that was in the house when we bought, but from personal experience of our alarm going off, and others amongst neighbours, sounding an external alarm is not worthwhile.

We'd rather see what's going on outside the house, so installed a 3-camera Arlo system to monitor movement on driveway and paths. It's a simple self-install, and when motion is detected, it will alert YOU, directly, via phone and/or e-mail alerts. You can then login and view what triggered the alert, and optionally live view through the cameras.

We had this discussion at work recently, alarm vs cctv. If you are all away from home, 20 or 30 miles away for example, and your cctv is triggered, what can you do? Other than offer the overworked Police an image of some hoody wearing parasite with his face covered and gloves on Creeping around in the darkness in your garden. You’d be lucky for them to even turn up the next day to take a statement, let alone actually investigate anything.

We chose an alarm as an audible deterrent because as soon as it goes off, very few would hang around long enough to get away with anything just in case the neighbors came out

longwalks1

Homersimpson wrote: »

As above the alarm will be ignored by your neighbours and you won't be able to do much if you are remotely notified its been activated.
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We’ve had one false alarm since we had ours fitted about 4 years ago (and we’d left the internal siren at the control panel muted as we’d been testing the sensors a few days before). Alarm triggered in the night but we didn’t hear the external bell box at front of the house alarming, we had 4 neighbours up and knocking on our door with 4 or 5 minutes to check we were ok :o:o

Some areas, neighbours do take notion a burglar alarm

GarethSutherland

Is there anyone who can vouch for the Yale Sync's reliability? I've read reviews from customers complaining about phone notifications which turned out to be false alarms. Nothing worse than panicking only to find out the alarm was triggered by sun shining through the window.

I'm also aware it doesn't come with cellular backup, so loss of internet means it can only make a loud noise, which is sort of concerning.

happypie

i also have yale alarm (diy one), no monthly charge.
sometimes its bit annoying that i get 'jam detected', 'no jam' messages for no reason.

after i purchased yale, ring also launched alarm system. i have ring door bell and am very happy with it. if ring alarm was launched before my purchase i would have bought that. yale seems dead product/company, they don't do any new innovation. ring on the other hand is owned by amazon and you will get future updates and many more smart devices - so would be good to manage all from one app.