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  1. Dick
    Yes, incredibly flexible with about every setting permutation necessary to cover all bases.
  2. Dick
    Says Forrest.
  3. Dick
    Indeed it is but stupid I’m not.
  4. Dick
    I doubt they are still being fitted but as for picture quality in remote viewing mine is superb, as is the still image emailed on zone trigger. With 4G and or WiFi as it is now, live monitoring with telemetry is equally superb with rarely any motion stuttering.
  5. Dick
    IP CamViewer works well with DM gear. It allows for a multi camera screen and telemetry. Unfortunately you lose the ability to view ‘Events’ ‘Go To Date’’, patrol, rewind and fast forward etc.
  6. Dick
    1animal1, you're wasting your time asking here unfortunately. You'll get all the help you want from a very helpful bunch in the 'Alarms, CCTV & Telephones' section on DIYNOT.com That said, if you are serious about security drop anything wireless and using an app from your shopping list.
  7. Dick
    I've come to the conclusion Nest is probably a front runner for heating without getting too annoying, though I'm not interested in app control, nor geo fencing. That said, apart from being able to control DHW, which is always on a schedule anyway, there is no benefit to me compared to what I have now via its alarm output and use daily during the heating season. Lights indoors are switchable still and a select few are on outputs too but that is a security measure rather than an automated convenience/pointless addition. Doing away with switches is a step too far for me and would only cause mayhem when visitors stayed over.
  8. Dick
    There's just too much choice and choosing the "best" route forward often leads to disappointment with drop-outs, failures, uncompatibility etc further down the line, if reading the automation forums is anything to go by. I keep reading up on going the Evohome route for individual heating control but when you need to involve 3rd party apps with a distinct lack of security, change batteries in every TRV, put up with disconnects (still), unexplicable timer clock changes causing heating to not come on when scheduled, binding issues, etc etc, it just isn't worth the hassle. I always come back to simplicity, effectiveness and above all security, no matter how intrigued or interested in technology I may be, and right now there appears to be a lot of choice to potentially become an expensive ballache with incompatibility just down the road. Basic on off automation from my alarm outputs suit me perfectly for now and possibly forever, allowing voice activation via Siri on my Watch or phone for activation.
  9. Dick
    Ah, OK. That's a pity those with an interest aren't allowed in but I get why not for the most part. Superb post, Jim, and one that should be replicated by other companies but sadly doesn't appear to be the case. Righto.
  10. Dick
    Just like every village has one, a forum does too and it is never that long before they appear.
  11. Dick
    Peter, the lack of any real input from installers on here has been noted and not just by myself. One point of CG's findings is that serious vulnerabilities can't be patched in some cases so keeping one step ahead of threats isn't going to happen. You may well have been in the industry since Noah but we are in 2015 now and facing a different kind of threat from, in some cases, kids younger than your favourite pair of socks who have more technical knowledge than most, if not all, any old school installer on how these things tick. You talk like a bigger cost option is definitely more secure than a cheaper device but maybe CG has more to come to dispel that belief.Grade 3 security aside who wants their automation equipment being messed with as is happening now with things like central heating being turned up at daft hours by a hacker? Expecting proper secure coding isn't much to ask is it?
  12. Dick
    Seriously, shouldn't you guys be asking about CG's findings rather than trying to play Give us a Clue with me?
  13. Dick
    I suppose if you can't manage a decent post on CG's findings something is better than nothing. His findings have no bearing on me whatsoever but I note them with interest, nothing more. When it comes to security I'm an end user so evaluating the information is important should I go a particular route. However, the results haven't come as a total surprise, the level of incompetence on the other hand has though.
  14. Dick
    See my response to Norman. Yes, yes you are what, Norman?
  15. Dick
    An opinion you're entitled to. Indeed it may, Jim, but It doesn't alter the findings or my opinions on the very same. Not angry or defensive in the slightest. Why on earth you'd come to that conclusion is beyond me. I'm merely saying it as I see it because I don't have to pretend all is well in the world of security like some of you guys obviously are.
  16. Dick
    You're right, you don't, but you did. Not of any importance, Norman.
  17. Dick
    Are you saying the SD1 dialler is insecure in reply to James?
  18. Dick
    When you have to revert to saying "even in its insecure state" as a reference to G3 security just highlights the state of the industry in some areas and the thinking therein.Maybe the companies could use it as a tagline.
  19. Dick
    "In summary, the protocol is so broken that it provides no security, allowing an attacker to easily spoof or intercept alarms." Diabolical.
  20. Dick
    Yes, utter mockery as far as the more supposedly secure (G3) monitoring is concerned in the cases CG has exposed.
  21. Dick
    Oh dear! It makes an utter mockery of monitored security, it really does.
  22. Dick
    What I use is irrelevant. What I don't use is all that matters to me. Let's hope Andrew can expose more insecure, shoddy security software peddlers to encourage/force them to clean up their act. Furthermore, it'd be good if self certification was made a thing of the past. I will be following with interest.
  23. Dick
    None of the above.
  24. Dick
    The whole 3rd party monitoring malarkey, the automated heating hardware, again with its fate largely decided by someone else and how good their security is. Alarm apps, another risky minefield. All rather sexy but undoubtedly a bigger risk than without.
  25. Dick
    What, and take your fun away, never!! I've stayed away from 'this' technology on purpose waiting for this day of reckoning. Whichever the way you look at it it'll only get worse, or more entertaining, before it gets better.
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