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Vonage We have alarm.com at each of our two homes. I love it! It's "voip compatible" in
We have alarm.com at each of our two homes. I love it! It's "voip compatible" in that they use cell phone signals (gsm I believe) to transmit events. Besides the standard functionality of an alarm system, you can set it up so that you get emails when various non-alarm events occur, and you can arm/disarm using their web interface.
Here's how we use it:
1) I can keep tabs on the person who's supposed to be watching our other house. When the alarm's disarmed, I get an email, and when the alarm's re-armed, I get an email. If the person forgets to rearm the alarm, I can do that remotely.
2) I have a sensor on our outside gate to the backyard, which is an always "non-alarm" sensor (i.e., it never arms). This way I know when/if the pool guys have come, as well as when/if the landscapers have come.
3) Sounds silly, but I have one door sensor that always sends me an email when it's opened, so that I can track how long my walks with the dog are . . . .
The GE hardware has been robust for us; no problems. In both houses, there were existing systems, one which was hardware only, and one which was a hybrid wired/wireless system. In both situations, it took about a day for them to change everything over to alarm.com.
Also, note that alarm.com is not the actual monitoring company. In Seattle, Protection One is, and in Phoenix, it's Az Security. Both of these are very large and reputable companies, and handle all the alarm-oriented events that are sent by the alarm (just alarm.com gets the non-alarm events). You can call up the monitoring company and do a system check no different than any other alarm company, etc. Think of alarm.com as more of a bootstrapping onto the alarm's normal functionality.
The one advantage that alarm.com touts is that it doesn't matter if your Internet connection goes down. Well, to be honest, our Internet connection is pretty reliable, so I haven't seen that as an issue. The thing I do like about alarm.com is that you can talk to real people - at alarm.com, at your monitoring company, and with your end dealer who does the install and with whom you sign the contract - at any time. What made me nervous about some of the other "voip compatible" services out there is that everything had to be done by email.
Read The Full Thread: Confused about Alarm monitoring options, can anyone help?
• I have been researching alarm systems and monitoring options for a week now and
• I just went down this road today. Had a techie guy come out here and he tried to setup
• Hi HDClown,
I replied to you on MobileVoipNews.com, where we saw this post,
• Hi Daniel,
I still don't get the reason why anyone would use anything but wireless
• I can't really argue with that. If your cable is cut, your alarm system won't communicate.
• Dan,
I went to the nextalarm.com site and filled out the form and it told me
• Having been a lurker for a while, I wanted to add that I just installed the nextalarm.com
• Hi again,
Sorry I've been absent. This isn't a forum I normally frequent,
miked2 posted "We have alarm.com at each of our two homes. I love it! It's "voip compatible" in" on 03/23/2007 |
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