PeterJames

Still need some sort of recognition for being the best, I am sure there are some very good non accredited installers out there that never will bother with accreditation what is their motivation? My motivation is to be the best and have the highest level accreditation, I know that I get work purely because some customers would only use a company with the highest level, but without the badge how would they know? And dislike champagne or not, it is still regarded as the best which is my point. Its not my cup of tea either but its the first analogy that popped into my head. I could have used cream and milk, or chocolate and candy, or cods roe and those other fish eggs, ect ect ect. Not that I have to justify myself to you or anyone else on the forum!

Its not about badges its about customers identifying the accreditation without having to ask or make their own investigations. Its the difference between Champagne and sparkling wine, even though some sparkling wines are very good, you know for sure that Champagne is the best.

That seems a bit daft you would think that they would give it some sort of premium name otherwise where is the motivation for doing it.

If there are no numbers anywhere its probably a sparky job or DIY. Did the previous owner/tenant not say anything? Texe is a basic panel most alarm co's will be able to help you out, so if all out fails google search for an installer near you

Call the installer would be my first call, is there a phone number on the bell?

My company was formed in 1988 so its been a while, I am NSI Gold so would have a biased opinion, but there is not supposed to be any difference between Silver and Ssiab, Silver was invented because Gold was so much harder to get than Ssiab. That said if your Silver you can go for gold at a later date, not sure if you can go anywhere from Ssiab

Hi and welcome Accreditation is probably the best way to get work IMO.

No problem

you had but I deleted one of them

please post your query in one area multiple posts will only cause confusion

Check the lid on the pir

We use ipads with cases, engineers have had them over two years now and only one has a cracked screen, and thats still usable. Ipads are pretty good compared to the cheaper driods, the batteries last forever too

Wireless ip Risco but this still needs power, you wont find any live camera thats completely wireless.

So the point of your post is?

The Control equipment decides if there is a confirmed signal, if a second device is triggered the control equipment will send a different signal "confirmed" and this is the only signal that you should Police assuming that the system in question has Police response and that the abort times have been observed. Duplicate signals could be sent for many reasons, if the signaling equipment did not receive a message back from the receiver (Kiss Off) or a dual path system sending both paths at the same time. These signals are not because the alarm has been triggered twice.

Which accreditation do you have.

If you ever want to get approval then you will find the functionality of AM very useful.

No we used a friend of mine to do it, he tailored it to our requirements. It cost us around £2k to get the development but he recently charged another co £600.00 theirs was more basic than ours and he had done all the hard R&D with us. The ongoing for us has been free, but I suspect I will have some sort of annual fee at the end of it all. We have been dabbling with it on and off for a couple of years now and its only really since I changed phone providers and got a really good deal on the sims that we have started using it full time, the jobsheets are now working fine with only the odd problem usually because an engineer has forgotten to tick a box somewhere. But its improving all the time now, sometimes we make an improvement and it makes a problem somewhere else but its soon picked up and fixed. I havent yet started using the surveys, only because I have had a lot on just recently but we will do over the next few weeks. The online acceptances has been working for several years, we do have the odd problem with that because its tailored for both commercial and domestic there are a lot of irrelevant questions, so we are working on changing this to a yes no survey type online form that produces the form at the end.

Get a big dog, theyre cheap from rescue centres. Nest will let you see them breaking in, assuming that you get the notification on your phone, and as Steve says if their faces are covered it wont be much help. There is nothing security wise that I would recommend with a £300 budget.

We also use Sage and AM, and have a web based jobsheet and acceptance of quotes system, we are currently working on the quotes now. We should be able to write the spec as we walk around the property and at the end of it produce a full written specification with price that can be instantly emailed to the customer. The only problem I can foresee after some of the tests we have carried out is trying to quote several disciplines at the same time, as it would require switching between urls on the ipad. We looked and trailed AMs jobsheet but it was too unreliable for us, I have heard that its got better though so may be worth taking a look.

The limping expert on everything is still in Sussex not Liverpool

Good kit I would say easy to program one of the first with an app, which compared to the others Ive seen is pretty good. The bus wiring is really useful if you have to upgrade a failed id system. Customer love the fact that it talks

You need to post stuff so that we have an idea that you are not a chancer. Read the vetting page again your application would not have been looked at all the while you had made less than 5 posts, you have now made 5 posts but all of them asking for trade access, nothing posted about bout the actual trade you work in. Look at it from our point of view would you let you into a trade area based on the posts you have made?

As far as I am aware you have not applied, in order to do so you need to follow the instructions on the vetting page, so far you have not even made enough posts, and the posts you have made do nothing to prove to us that you even saw a video on you tube about alarms, let alone trade.