PeterJames

I dont rate any of the the Uniview kit that I have seen. That said I have some very old system q stuff that is rebadged Hik that I would have rated quite poor at the time compared with the likes of Mobotix and Axis which was what I was installing top end at the time. There is a market for cheap end CCTV and if you look how far Hik have come because they sold cheap tat, there is always room for another cheaper brand for Sony to sell their seconds too.

Hik and Dahua are a slightly different league from Uniview. I would go as far to say Hik and Dahua are a mid range product, Uniview is more base product bit like Floureon or Swan

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I would hope after four years he would have fixed the fault by now

When was it last serviced?

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When I used to repair tv,s they were essential, nowadays sadly its cheaper and easier to replace something than it is to repair something. I cant think of anything in our trade where I would use it.1v ptp on a camera why bother? if you fix it, the customer will expect 12 month warranty on it even if a different component fails. The only thing I use mine for is for R&D and it rarely gets used for that, when you can buy almost anything you need off the shelf.

We have one in the office I rarely use it and I am the only one who knows how to use it (Or what it is for that matter)

We are still using Milestone at our top end and we have started to use Dahua at our bottom end, though we are still importing some CCTV from Latvia, the US, and China, but not so much nowadays its a pain sending the stuff back.

Swerve aliexpress Hikvision, none of it is Hik its a poor copy of the Hik Codec. You would be far better off buying the DIY version of Hikvision (Think its called HiVision) at least you will get a quality product. Trust me I buy a lot from China its taken me quite a while several years of visiting factories to find decent suppliers 95% of them are rubbish.

Thats alright because I didnt get you a present

Lazy is what smart is all about, presence detection saves you walking to the light switch. Not having to get up to close my curtains switch the lights or tv on is useful and smart. My curtains are on a timer, but the tv and lights wouldnt switch on without my presence, but they wont switch on just because of my presence either.

I thought the ion was a small one, not sure about the Texe I dont really do diy

Do you mean that you can only have one or the other?

The bellbox can be powered but still wireless to the panel, most wireless systems can do this. The visonic Powermax has wiring for an external sounder as does the HKC Quantum, not sure about the Enforcer, Scantronic Ion, or the Texecom. But I guess they would all be the same

I like to know the facts, and at the moment most of the facts worry me.The only good thing I can foresee with a Brexit no deal is that house prices are likely to fall which may give my kids a chance to get on the property ladder. However, if the £ drops too then the only people buying property in the UK will be the Russians and Chinese.

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Good English for a foreigner!

Smoke cloak is good, but it should be fitted professionally. You cant use pepper spray or electrocute people thats illegal. Smart water if you want to catch who did it. Masterblaster if you want to make em crap themselves. A decent monitored alarm system is probably best

Bizarrely we had a takeover recently where the customer was told by the Police that they were removing Police response from the company that they were with for telling people exactly that. The Police had contacted SSAIB and everything apparently. I personally would not rely on self monitoring, the amount of times a day I miss calls because I have left my phone in my car, office, workshop, store room. If I am in a meeting my phone is off, there are plenty of places I go where I have no signal. Much better to have a monitoring station dealing with my alarm problems

And I connect mine to an ARC and the app is a free add-on, whereas the app is the selling point for you.

But you can use it as GSM only though and only pay for gsm

of course, but it costs twice as much as Wifi alone or GSM alone and so if you dont need dual path, and the Wifi drops out alot, and you cant be assed to fit a lan card and run a network, just fit GSM on it own

Yeah been using it a while now, it drops out still but you can adjust the timer so it reports less dropouts