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Big ass dog and a wife that stays home well armed....enough for me!
home security systems are good because they can scare off crooks, combined with reinforced doors and maybe windows, they could buy you valuable time. but yeah reinforced entrances (possibly windows as well)+alarm system+firearms=almost perfect.
Have you done a search here for HOME SECURITY? It's been covered extensively, and recently.
Well, when you, wife and dog are all out of the house for a week-long vacation, a security system would
Vacations are overrated.....
In addition to an actual security system, I'd also consider installing IP-cams, e.g. Foscam. Some folks have experience with other brands, but I find that Foscam is great.
Do you use Blue Iris?
I wonder why in the world they don't name the sensors? Or at least have them numbered so all you have to remember is that sensor 1 is front door, etc. Seems like it would be trivial to implement.
Every sensor as well as every other device is serial numbered. If there is an error or anything like that, it tells you the SN. I eventually made a list of every sensor number so I can at least trouble shoot properly if a battery starts to die or something like that.
I wonder why in the world they don't name the sensors? Or at least have them numbered so all you have to remember is that sensor 1 is front door, etc. Seems like it would be trivial to implement.
Responding a year late to this thread but I just got simplisafe. If you pay for the alerts to your phone, when a sensor is activated, the text will tell you the name of the one that was tripped. It wont say on the keypad, but the text/email will indicate which alarm was triggered.
This is my biggest complaint as well. Makes no sense that they can't have the Base Station relay the name of the Entry/Window sensor going off to the keypad.
I got Simplisafe after reading up on NES and looking around elsewhere. Been very happy with it overall. I had one issue where the Base Station lost comms with monitoring, but it alerted me and a quick Google search later I was up and running.
I have ATT and their texts alerts are almost always delayed. The emails come in quickly though. I wish you could silence the countdown on the Keypad. I set it to "Away" when I go to bed so all windows and motion sensors are armed. The 30 second beeping is already annoying.
If you don't need a 30 second exit delay you can turn it down to whatever you want.