PeterJames

You will need the echo if you want to do anything by shouting at it

There are CCTV manufacturers like Dahua and Hikvision that make doorbells and entry systems that link to the CCTV and your smart phone, it wont be long until there is an alexa skill for those too

In theory you could use an analytic camera to trigger a wireless output which in turn tells the broadlink to change the channel of the TV to HDMI source. My recorder is plugged into a HDMI input of the TV so its a separate source (like changing from terrestrial tv to a sky box). I control mine manually or ask Alexa to go to HDMI 2 on the tv. To operate the gate or TV or anything by shouting at it yes you need one of those, and an echo, the echo talks to the broadlink to switch stuff on and off. Paul Hibbert explains most of it here

Arent duvets french?

Its been broke since Brexit started

Nah theyre 75"

I didnt want a council estate tv

No, My Alexa is not connected to any of my security, unless you count that its on the same router, eventually. The Alexa talks to the broadlink, the broadlink is a ir and rf transmitter, that can switch on anything with ir or rf. I have rf light switch's and of course my garage doors are rf. Controlling a gate or just about anything by voice is simple nowadays.

The recorder is plugged directly into the HDMI on the back of the TV I have two recorders in case one gets stolen. Its a Sony Davinci chipped 2MP camera about 2 years old. I am slowly replacing each camera for Dahua cams just for the analytics not for the picture quality

Asking for a friend, will continental quilts still work if we leave the EU with no deal on the 31st of October?

Play back recording 2mp my pool on the TV I forgot to mention its curved not an optical illusion

I use alexa to to switch stuff on and off via a broadlink, I can control my garage doors from alexa but I rarely do, the timing on pressing the button putting my laptop in the boot and getting in the car is about right. but you can control just about anything now with alexa or google doo daa

Really? I have a 4k 65" tv in the lounge and 2mp camera full screen looks great

Stu its not Dave its me, and you know the rules nobody is getting in without first sending me a stool sample

More to the point would you need that higher res? Its about the digital zoom and it really depends on the view that your looking at. We quite often come up against people installing much higher res cameras than us. But there is no point in putting a 5mp camera to view a small area all you are doing is using up your bandwidth and filling you HDD up with information that would not really be needed, a 2mp camera would identify an unknown person at around 10 metres easily in a small area like a corridor or hallway, or by your front door. A 4k camera would tell you how many hairs on their chin using digital zoom but why would you need that much detail when you have enough to identify them already? I find that 4mp is more than enough for most projects unless your try to protect a football pitch

You haven't lived until you have had the soft breeze of HKC wireless transmission wafting through your hair

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Is anyone else using their alarm to control their lights and stuff? In my last house I automated stuff and controlled it using Galaxy gold, but everytime I wanted to switch something on or off remotely I had to find an internet connection for my laptop or connect my lappy to my mobile. No suh thing as apps and 3g back then. This house is far better my wife doesnt like all the tech but I being an techy idiot luv it, I love saying to Alexa movie night and watch the TV come on on the Netlfliks channel the curtains close the lights go out and the room goes purple, and my surround sound amm changes to TV mode. I have always connected my hall lights up to my alarm, I remember the first time I saw this on an old Castle 1250, it had a mains relay wired to an output when the alarm went off the lights came on. It struck me as a really good idea, if you had just broken in and the lights came on you would think that someone is in and has heard you and are on their way to catch you. Before I had hard wire lights up now its just a case of swapping the light switch and using a txer. More recently (now my kids are teenage) I have come down in the morning and have found that the kids have left the kitchen or lounge lights on all night, and so I wired an wireless txer to the alarm so that whenever it is part set or full set it switch's all the lights off in the house. When I was at James house the other month he was using smartlights on his alarm to switch on the external lights when he opened the back door, I quite liked that idea.

Hi just for clarity a pir works using passive infra red to detect movement of heat, if the ambient temp is high then it will struggle to detect. A dual technology detector is two different types of detection in one Microwave which uses radar dopler to detect, and passive infra red, both radar doplar and the passive infra red have to detect before the detector activates. Which means you will still have the same problem with it not detecting. Not familiar with the Pyronix tat so I could be wrong but surely all new kit is two way technology, therefore the detector wont be working while the alarm is unset anyway? HKC is the only manufacturer that makes a wireless DT not that it would work in your situ

Yeah I think it might be you

In order to fix your issues you first have to understand that you have them. Many people think that its everyone else who has the problem, I employed someone like that once

No we know who he is, he is well off