Greg Hook
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Does the software allow the siren to be disabled? When you add in the cost of paying an electrician to install it and factor in your yearly payment it might be more cost effective to have a burglar alarm fitted.
Thanks for the review Greg, interesting piece of kit.
Is it possible to have a wired connection? Or only wireless?
Gotta say that is one of the ugliest pieces of kit that I have ever seen. I would be loathed to put that anywhere on my house. I think that it looks like one of those X10 PAR floodlights from the 1990’s, but uglier. For my money, I’ll stick with Hik and a separate PIR activated floodlight.
The subscription I would rather give to policing in my area.
When are they bringing out a version with a multi-gimble mini-gun turret built in?You already have an expensive compulsory subscription for that - council tax and if its anything like this area - then you get absolutely zero worth of burglary deterrent and/or effort after the fact.
I am not a fan. I had a ring doorbell. Before it got nicked I was very frustrated by the delay in someone pressing the bell and my phone alerting me. A couple of time couriers had run off before I knew about it,
The subscription I would rather give to policing in my area. If we all paid what we would for burglar alarm monitoring ot monitoring for a camera front and back and a doorbell there would be far less thieving gits about in the first place.
I'm quite interested in this and a smart doorbell but I've heard response times on the app are poor. And it's properly ugly. The Nest option looks ok but without the floodlight integration and the doorbell isn't available yet. The new wave of smart home devices seem to come with too much early adopter risk. It feels like what should be straight forward devices take forever to come to market, cost a fortune with installation costs/service charges then disappoint or do not integrate well.
The days when an electric shock was a right of passage have long gone.
Are moulded plugs allowed again in the 12 years since I left?that in the current moulded plug world
They are a legal requirement on all new devices, sadly.Are moulded plugs allowed again in the 12 years since I left?
Is that with the fuse slot though in the UK? So you still have the fuse to change?They are a legal requirement on all new devices, sadly.
Although the lack of a fuse in plugs in radial circuits simply ignores what the fuse is protecting really. Our radial circuits are wired for 20A and the breaker protects wiring at 16A with 10A sockets, so sockets are protected by the over current breaker at 1.6 times rating and only common sense at the socket end. Ring circuits are 30/32A wired and protected, and sockets 13A. The plug fuse at maximum 13A does limit a socket to max rating and a double to twice the socket rating of course. But Isn’t the fuse more to protect the cable from the socket to the appliance? The cord is sized to the appliance so you don’t need 13A cable for a 3A appliance and it is easy to flex?Yep, still have fuses. That would not change, we have ring mains so need it.
Just buy a good high IP rated junction box such as IP65 Adaptable Box 80 x 80 x 52mm
And some decent 20mm waterproof glands, such as these Tower Male Comp Gland White 20mm Pack of 2
I would also run the cable in some decent conduit.
When my shed was done the oxygen thieves cut the cable leading to a security light.