PeterJames

De do do dont de do Hi and welcome

It will stop an opportunist that happens to be in the building and tries a door, it wont stop someone tooled up, but someone having a go at a mag-lock will get noticed. Lets face it mag-locks can still be forced open if your heavy enough, but anyone trying would be noticed doing so

I would agree internal doors, someone would notice if there was a man in a stripey shirt and a swag bag unbolting the lock

I tried the ring which has similar camera, the battery was supposed to last at least a year, it was at 30% within a couple of weeks, and I lost count how many times it lost connection with the router less than a couple of metres away. But to be fair to them I got my money back no quibble

I should mention that the house is not occupied full time, the staff live in the gate house. They need to know if intruders are on the roof when the house is occupied

Thats what they do ?

We have done this on a roof, two HKC pir cameras. Yes there are false alarms, but because they are on the flat roof not that many mostly birds, and none at night. The positive is the fact that a false alarm has its picture taken and sent to the phone app, therefore the customer knows its a false alarm and just rearms the system. No need to go racing up to the house with his dog and baseball bat

If you mentioned what you wanted in the online enquiry then its unlikely that you will be contacted. Perimeter external security would not be popular amongst your average house basher, especially if you drop in words like solar powered, two words that would set any self respecting installer running in the opposite direction. There are various solutions out there, we installed a system at a house in Weighbridge recently for circa £45k using similar to this http://www.southwestmicrowave.com/products/buried-cable-detection-systems/ but I would guess its a bit out of your budget.

Who were you expecting to call? I get the logic, but in order to be able to give advice,it would be sensible to understand the risk. Are you expecting to be targeted specifically? Could it just be that your concerned about opportunists? Have you already had someone enter your garden? I have done several projects of this nature, and my advice would be its expensive to do it properly, and if you dont do it properly its just a waste of money.

In the UK it is Police Policy that monitored alarms can only be set to use fobs for disarming, you are not allowed to use codes unless you use a shunt lock. But I note that you are not in the UK so therefore the rules would be different. AlYeti assumed that you may have programmed your alarm to UK Police Policy. We would not be familiar with the rules of your country but they may be similar, either way it is unlikely to have the same programming as a UK system. Also DSC is not a common alarm panel in the UK only one distributor as far as I am aware.

Hi Ryan welcome to the forum,

I forgot to say my dog has never tripped mine but the detectors see me fine. Its not a question of budget, these detectors are expensive compared to standard pir's. I prefer to use motion detectors for aesthetics, who wants wires on every window and door? you could use wireless siesmics I suppose.

Agreed but perimeter protection would be better with, or without pets. However, its much harder to put siesmic detectors on every window and door, without having wires everywhere. I know that you have never been a fan of pet tolerant motion sensors, I used to be very sceptical, but I was very impressed with the bluelines when they first came out, and have never looked back, they just work. A siesmic detector to the wind frame.

I would go with the Hik ANPR cams, I can get Chinese ones but you wont save much and it wont work with a Hik DVR

I forgot they tried to be clever and called them tri techs they are the ones, follow the instructions they will be absolutely fine. I had a big dog jumping around on a bed to get snacks I had thrown on there. They are the best pet tolerant detector available They are fine so long as you install them correctly, the animal must not be able to get within six foot of the detector, dont point them at stairs, I have hundred of them out there with no problems at all

Bosch Blueline dual techs read the instructions and youll be fine

Ive still got one left if you want it !

Gus, although the Lightsys probably wouldn't be top of my choices neither would the Texecom to be fair. The companies you have invited to quote are obviously comfortable with the product they have specified, you need to be comfortable with the installer. Many here will have their own opinions with regards the two different systems, fact is both are big brands in this industry and some installers get on better with one brand over another. When I was an engineer I quite liked the Abacus panel and the Castle 2000 series, I hated Menvier panels, and Scantronic 9500 all manufacturers have their own ideas on programming and protocols, and it is entirely down to what you're used to programming as an engineer. All of those panels were very popular at the time. I really like the Lightsys app it is one of the best apps Ive seen, never seen the Texe app so cannot give a comparison. Choose the better installer would be my advice, they are the ones that will look after you if they made the wrong panel choice.

looks old and it looks a bit oxidised too, what state is the cable in? Link the tamper circuit at the detector end (dont used the detector terminals twist the wires together)

Someone sent me the link I dont read newspapers I like Sky News, BBC News, Euro News, and NHK Oh and Radio 4 of course

https://www.amazon.co.uk/YARD-Stick-One-Transceiver-Antenna/dp/B06Y1RVHBP/ref=sr_1_37?ie=UTF8&qid=1500313994&sr=8-37&keywords=yard+stick http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4700290/Criminals-beat-alarm-click-electronic-device.html Looks interesting or worrying for those with one way, cheapo systems

Whats a gold installer?

4 way standard license is on offer atm too free http://click.3cx.com/wf/click?upn=l-2B9cMvh2xSJ4F7tmCLnjqdSXU3cN2TpU-2FNIOrFtzvaEmyDImxYuE4NSR5QbKkLGln4H78Vj4DjYq3-2B0FxDtaDuvJRNTRWovHF1DZTiJsehRNHp919x6YvbiYnNiJW0O-2F_-2FQw1seqWrCQgd-2Fw6x2o5vvSXT-2BOpa6JqFfu0YCw6X1225YU9WLCJqJncJfC6KWYBKhu85gLkzTL5JxrE2FY33PBn-2FM7Bk-2F-2F0hgn5juen6LtG9DvS5DFGhs5e9QCgtb6sKDfePtiiXSX7VqDghyHdLxQIWD-2BAgUwh958oS1uC0WV3-2Fczm6VNkcxL7ziZicxdvczfuAVd7sJJn-2FhQLmamaDlLHsYbSl1R0DvHijGs0PsrxMAQgxIVkXKr8X9iT4p7qP7HsbedTiOGMR4Jj502VVs-2FByyNnrzN6cQf9qSNJrmd9ItbuLj6oy-2FO3TGvbaHMjfTRcETpRx-2BJ8-2FCp8jlAeEy8kg-2BH0ayy9m3wgWSQetI2hCj4uGUQy9w5XDSCfp9IqqhBMa-2BGFLoWL77g5oisIqIF1Sj3pj2d9LA0JM0owGaxCHqDZ9vFHTaxNJRakbI5j I paid around £300 I think for the above

I am quite pleased with mine £45 ea off ebay and they were like new

Correct theyre missing punctuation correct you're miss typed. Dont worry Steve none of my quotes go out like that, which was my point