PeterJames

I think that sooner or later it would be difficult not to charge. They are seeing a slow down in the sales of smart phones, mainly because the phone of this year is not that much better than the phone of two or three years ago. CCTV I think peaked at 2mp anything higher res than that you are just wasting HDD space in most cases. The point of CCTV is to identify and on the whole 2mp does that unless you put the camera on in a stupid place, or you trying to achieve two cameras worth of pictures from one. So sooner or later CCTV sales will start to fall, not everyone in the UK wants CCTV and those who have it will not see the need to upgrade as they do now. So therefore sales will start to drop, and thats when apps will become costly to run, and the cheaper Chinese apps will stop working and the Hiks of this world will have to charge, port forwarding is the safest bet rather than cloud.

Hi have you applied for trade yet? I think most of the free ones are, or will, soon be charging, it costs money to run and up keep a cloud server. Like everything in this world in order for someone to get something for nothing, someone else got nothing for something. We have always used the pay for apps and steered clear of the free apps, think about it if you are relying on it to protect something you care about why would you use something thats free? What come back have you got if it failed to operate? You cant even ask for your money back. Dont get me wrong I think out of all the apps Ive seen the Risco one is one of the best. I just dont trust it, mainly because it is or has been free

Its not a funny story if your posting it on a forum where everybody has heard it more than a few hundred times

I reckon it will be fine for twenty years until one morning when it doesnt start, think of the money you'll save

Risco were the only people doing this for free, every other manufacturer was charging for it. The signals from your panel go to a cloud server and then gets forwarded to your app, all that kit is not cheap, and it was on the cards that it would not be free forever. I was told that it all depended on sales on when they were going to start charging, I am surprised they went as long as they did without charging to be fair. All those cheap Chinese DVR app servers will follow soon

I used one as a doorbell in my old house with a sound clip from the fast show "this week I have been mostly eating raspberry poptarts"

system q have one but its not that loud they have the pre recorded message too

I dont know, this one worked fine until about the fifteenth century then it started losing time.

I think the above is where you went wrong Ray. If you go back prior to this statement most people giving up their free time to help you were quite willing. Think about the above statement, you come to a website full of people making a living out of security and make out that a 10 year old with chock block tourrettes could do their job. What sort of reaction did you think that would provoke?? Its a bit like us saying anyone can run a Cafe but it would seem not, looking at your reviews. Your alarm system is very poorly installed but I suspect that you didnt really do any homework before your purchase like check reviews or see if they were approved, at least if you had chosen an approved co you could complain to the Worshipful Company of Security Installers and Brethren Of Domotics (Plymouth Chapter). Someone has probably already mentioned this, but changing the detectors to dualtechs will not detect bricks btw, bricks are not burglars. The alarm going off after the window was smashed would not have made any difference either. The window would still be broken and the unhappy customer would still have run away long before anyone noticed.

Hi and welcome. though I doubt you will find this forum as useful as you think, its just a bunch of nerdy blokes talking about putting coloured wires in holes, as far as I can make out.

Once you cancel your contract with your installer they will switch off the account with the Risco cloud. Risco will not deal with you directly unless your installing a few of their systems a week. They will only work with their customers not the end user. He has the engineering code

Hi and welcome

You will need to find another co to take it over, there is a cloud connection that risco wont handover to a DIYER

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Hi

We havent used rg59 for around 10 years, even if you have analogue cameras cat 5 and baluns is better you can run upto 4 cams on 1 cat5

Theyre nearly as bad as yours

Dell here

You can never be too careful, I like to be sure who is around me before I start looking at the stuff youve posted in the Mod lounge

I use Fing on my phone, its quite handy when your on a public network and you want to see what else is on it

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