PeterJames

Yeah I dont know anyone with a 30 year old TV or a 5 year old mobile phone, yet people moan when their alarm is obsolete after 15 years

Goldfish rights perhaps

Grr Im not 75 or anywhere near it !! 55 and semi retired

If you have no code for it, and you dont know what your doing then my advice would be to leave it alone and get someone that does. They are good little panels if they have been regularly serviced but if they havent been touched for a few years then the charging circuit gets knackered by the dead battery, then the panel becomes useless

Hi and welcome, dont worry about the 2 years experience at age 35, we love late bloomers here

Hi and welcome

Which is weird because alarm cable was cheaper than BT back then

Call me old fashioned, but if it says low battery in the hallway then surely its the battery in the detector in the hallway

You dont mind strangers looking at your ring?

Looks a bit Disney World to me

Get the electricians to fix your lights, get proper alarm installer to fit your alarm

hi and welcome back

Maybe you should be asking the arc that question rather than us

Until someone invented something that puts our industry in jeopardy

I see no mention of refund?

Is it an app? or does it call you ?

QFA If the alarm was in serviceable condition you would not have to do that after every powercut. What if you have a powercut while your on holiday ?

Compared to the stuff you see on amazon they are, but we have just had that conversation on the Oswu alarm system topic. OP you get what you pay for, especially so with CCTV. In order to make something cheaper you have to produce it cheaper, like using plastic lenses that warp in the sun and cant be focused or reject chips that work but have been rejected due to dead pixels or similar. I dont use Hik but they are what I would call the premium cheap end of the market, Hik are really good value for money from what I have seen of them. If you think Hik are expensive take a look at Mobotix, 6 times the price. In answer to your question though any Onvif camera will work

But there is loads of tat being imported, some of it good some of it bad.Hikvision and the likes started out this way, and some would say its the best CCTV available today. The problem with security industry is that there are no enforceable standards people are free to market tat that false alarms at a blink of an eye, or wont switch off when the correct code is inputted, or doesnt activate when there is an intruder. But people are also free to make a choice, sometimes educated choice and sometimes people do not research before they buy and go for the cheapest deal. Hopefully when people buy tat they learn from the experience.

QFA I think I would have kept the response too

Not sure how you come to that conclusion

Depends on the requirements set out when the license was issued

Also his insurance would be invalid and he could lose his gun license if the guns are not suitably protected

I doubt that, people that have guns are sensible, and would not take any risk. You can kill someone with a gun.

The installer will still know the system and can provide a service contract