Smart Intruder Alarms

Can I ask actually, do most people just screw motion detectors or other sensors straight into plasterboard? Or do you use rawlplugs Or other plasterboard fixings?

something like a smoke alarm is relatively heavy to screw into a ceiling I think?

I’ve heard of people using aqara vibration sensors but obviously that would require a hub also unless you already had one?

Interesting, thanks, that was the type of kit I was thinking of, though not necessarily having to get another hub to manage it..

Cheers. Even after reading that earlier I wasnt sure but I'll take it it says it in there somewhere that'll work. Looking to order 19 of these bad boys so hopefully they work.

Not sure on prices at the moment, but megateh doing a black friday deal.

www.megateh.eu/products/blackfriday

Has there been any change on the home insurance recognition front for smart alarms?

Not that I want to necessarily use the discount, but the issue I’ve found is that the insurance companies put a low ceiling on contents if you have no alarm/

I think it was €120K last time, which isn’t a lot for a family of 5 if your house was to burn down………?

To someone’s point earlier in the thread, you can advise of having the alarm, but not take the discount, what I’m looking for is to upgrade a 20 year old Aritech system with a smart alarm, wired doors and internally wired PIRs with wireless window sensors etc.

however it’s only worth my while if the insurance company recognised it and allowed me increase my contents insurance……..anyone else face that issue?

One of these three. Prices vary.

I might be ordering some from BAS and sergico myself, as Sergico even with delivery cost easily beat BAS on Keypad Plus.

The recent conference was to announce further wired sensors (Fibra) which is great for me, I went for the multi transmitter so be interesting to see how it all syncs together. May require specialised cables though!

Hopefully they are safe despite how things are right now.

I’ve had an issue getting content insurance of greater than €150K on a house worth €450K without having an alarm, hence why I’ve been looking at options.

has anyone else had that issue? Or is there a better insurance company to use?

The issue is getting context insurance for more than 30% of the house value

Moved into our new house a few months back, the house was setup with a faulty phonewatch system, by faulty I mean it was going off during the day and we had no means to stop it going off except for eventually pulling the battery out

Anyway long story short I now have a heap of wireless sensors attached to windows and doors that I'd like to get back to good use with another alarm system

Does anybody know an alarm system that can pick up the frequency signals they run on or am I milking a dead horse here?

Failing that is there any alarm system that I can get with wireless sensors I can attach to the existing holders?

I wasn't expecting the electronics part of the sensors to work with another system - hopeful - but wasn't expecting it.

What I am thinking is the holes that were made in the window frame to fit the screws, or even the plastic that the screws are connected to could be reused by a self install system.

Has anybody tried that before?

I'm thinking of a possible situation where Phonewatch and another supplier buy in the same make/model of sensor and then add their own software to them to make them compatible with their systems. Or is that too hopeful?

In the case of Ajax, yes you can do that. (Or use your phone or smart watch or tag or card)

Unless you know your broadband will be terrible I reckon one sim is enough. I have the hub 2 plus I have one sim in it which is LycaMobile. I topped it up when installing and ran on 4G only for the first month and then broadband. i was messing around sending tons of pics of “intruders” tiling the house when testing out the sensors remotely at the beginning which probably used the most data. I topped up with €20, got 10 free I think and I still have €14.88, installed it 6 months ago