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Ah. In that case, it would be best to tell your insurer you have no alarm at all. you to insurer 'we've been burgled' insurer to you 'no problem sir, I'm guessing the alarm was set?' you 'er, yes, expect so' insurer 'no problem sir, we will get the logs inspected, and could you have the installation and latest service documents to hand' you 'i maintain it myself' insurer 'yay! no payout sir, not covered, check your t+cs, trebles all round lads!' You rarely get ANY meaningful discount for a bells only alarm, they usually just ask the question as a get-out-of-jail-free card hoping it isn't properly maintained. If you didn't tell them you had an alarm, they can't ask if it was set, and cannot deny your claim.

Just googled that, had no idea it ever existed!

Buy cheap, pay twice. An ineffective alarm that merely looks pretty is only false peace of mind.

Not yours though, they're full of water Straight off the production line

Not really, unless money is a massive issue, I appreciate a lot of the old wires might have been cut but how about the one to the old siren, since you're thinking of reusing it? Since we don't touch the Yale stuff I'm not going to stand here and say it can't be done, ever (PSU instead of battery) but don't be surprised if unless you get a very well matched and regulated PSU you'll be back up there, just for a different reason than a duff battery! So on that basis I'd not recommend bothering. As the system is pretty insecure anyway is there not ANY other location the bell can go?

Unfortunately, we all, as one, hate the features of the Yale Wireless system, it is utter junk. They can't even spell / check 'triggered' on the datasheet! You can't replace the siren batteries with a PSU. You would have been better off with a quality system such as a Texecom or similar, that would have allowed you to retain a wired siren, maint. free, up to 4 existing wired zones such as door contacts, extras in 2-way wireless, and better yet have cloud based, app control so if anything happens at your in-laws you would not only hear about it but be able to log in, reset the alarm, and see exactly what caused the alarm and when. https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/alarm-systems-alarmingly-insecure-oh-the-irony/

That sounds like one of those ones where at the end they say 'great, and I'm sure Amazon will pay for this, send me the bill and I'll pass it straight on to them...'

It's probably because its gone from low battery to no battery to supervision fail

Sounds familiar, at least the Eaton kit has had the routine updated, I think now if it suspects something is amiss it totally resets the connection, again previously BT boxes have refused to dish out IPs properly after an update or reset (of the router).

Don't, I've for some reason not had to deal with one of those bags of shiite for a while, at least, not those really bad small grey ones, just realised I probably did have to deal with one last week, talk talk, they sodding well block TeamViewer at port level!!

Ouch, I hate that sort of timewaster, like the time the subs (obscure) router was only dishing out DCHP DNS to phones and PCs but would hand out an address to the DVR giving the illusion all was well but cloud wouldn't work, and it wasn't obvious why... Ouch 2, not as bad as that apalling piece of crap cybergibbons managed to get his hands on, where editing the cookies got you past the pw in the rare case it hadn't been changed!!

So, what was it... special characters in p/w not passed properly by the camera? Have had that f**ker before Fixed

Quiz; choose 1) troll! 2) true! vote now!

I'm sure you'd just probably hoped like me that stodgy old publications like which would be on the side of quality, not fantasy cheap prices. I'd like to think it's because the underlying article is 20-30 years old and never updated (a bit like their pic of the ancient scanny keypad) but it wasn't even £100-200 from the cheap gang in 1999!

Well, yes, but it's not quite as a bad as the apparant £100 for a fully installed 'bells-only' alarm! I wonder if some clueless writer has just phoned around and been given prices for a bell change!

https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/home-garden/homes-interiors/how-to-guides/how-to-choose-a-burglar-alarm I believe the above article is the same as the Which? one without the paywall. Scary scary scary - all it does is bloody ENCOURAGE people to go with clueless fly by nights because the proper installer is 'ripping them off'.

Well, that's after seeing if they are attempting to even use POFA of course! When we got caught attending an event at a hotel it was that lot that don't even attempt to POFA and a polite one line 'feck off' letter results in a surprisingly polite reply that they have cancelled the ticket 'as a gesture of goodwill' Even funnier though, and I'm enbarassed I didn't ever spot this, was the reveal done by the local rag about parking on the seafront. I always wondered why people who got ticketed - by council employees - got a blue ticket with 'Warning Notice' on. It's because they have the right to charge for parking (or any other temporary use of land) under some hundred year old deal, but don't own it. So they give out these totally powerless £10 fines (which I should also have spotted as being sus) in the hope it's such a reasonable amount people will just pay up. And they do. When pushed they admitted they'd never taken anyone to court, because, of course, they can't

Even CCTV cameras and unlit signs (other than shopfront / advertising) need planning permission sometimes. Looks like our local Tesco (an unusually large store for a central location, hence why it 1) hasn't closed/moved and b) is popular with town shoppers) finally got rumbled for planning. All the fancy 'register your parking' touchscreen kiosks have been dark for 2 months now...

A decent system would allow both house and outbuildings to work as two systems, individually controlled but managed and notified as one...

Err, is this like what all the 'cool' kids post on 4chan?

We tiewrap the gate, it's quite dark in the street so takes them a while to realise the gate just isn't opening

I think there is a lot of truth in that - if you're doing hooky sales (even if it's just otherwise legit but tax free) there is a real advantage to recycling the PayPay money into something you want. The number of sales I do where the PP payment is always, without fail, in the 'wifes' name is quite amusing. Since it's not exactly hard to open an account, you don't need to be creditworthy even for a basic PP account. There was (but not so much now) a little industry of people making eyewatering amounts from selling IKEA stuff on there, but I think IKEA now deliver by courier about 70% of what they sell.

true

Yep plenty of fools that bid 2nd hand £200 goods up to £5 below the price of new, on ebay for example!

Feck knows what was in this one I did the other day. Massive suitcase sized box underneath the fuseboard (batteries???) with 25mm conduit tracking round the room, into that another big white cab with voice and Cat5 ports x 2, then the customer still has to have their BT Smarthub plugged into that. I assume the service is graded but doesn't seem anything special, I'd have to say, and the Eaton log is showing dropout for about 2-5 seconds every other hour or so, thankfully these are programmable to no longer turn the light red or cause an alert if less than 60 seconds. https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-for-developers/how-to-self-install-openreach-equipment Wow, thats a shed load more plant to be responsible for, in what could be some very shitty areas in peoples very shitty houses.... LOL at the virgin logo visible in the background on that blank plate below, how the mighty have fallen, but also if thats competition in action (2x services to one house, one coax one fibre) what a total waste of resources.