Dick

Agreed, but the trust is being tested as technology moves on and largely away from what installers have been used to for many years. There is now another 'breed' in the mix of security and these guys are, on occasions, failing at the first hurdle to make the hardware secure via inadequate software programming. Companies using independent certified security experts to give their equipment a seal of approval should be the only way forward now if trust is to be maintained.

All things being equal yes, but this has to be different from now on in. It is only the beginning too where security is concerned if we go down the route of the ever popular automated equipment.

It has to be the manufacturer for allowing such inferior equipment to be released. Everyone else down the line has worked on trust.

Bag and cat spring to mind though. Things might and should change. As an end user I'd be livid with the findings too. Having said that, I'm not an end user of said equipment and I'm not surprised with what CG has released.

I have had no problem at all with a Pyronix V2 GSM dialler. It was that or the Menvier SD3 offered to me by my installer.

You can't get any cheaper than 3.6p a text that is charged for use only and not on a rolling contract basis that you pay for regardless of use. Also, as far as alerts are concerned, no airtime provider shuts down a sim within a day or week through no use so why the unnecessary tests if you 'test' it yourself by using it several times a day or even a couple of times a month say? Your top up is directly dependant on use too.

I think the expiry you refer to is the fact you put £10 on the sim and if you don't use it within the 30 days you lose the money not the use of the sim. You can still get PAYG sims and top up what you like (in £5 increments) but you don't need to keep topping it up until it has gone. Where security is concerned an automatic top up is worth having where the airtime provider will automatically add funds when your balance reaches a set minimum. I use Tesco Mobile who use 02 which has by far the best reception where I am. I have my balance set to top up £10 automatically when the amount drops to £10. A £10 top up actually costs £9 set up this way so texts work out even cheaper than the standard 4p a text. I use my automation several times a day and of course calls to the dialler are free should I wish to go that route. If I never used my dialler it is programmed to do a test text at least once a month to keep the sim active. This is easily managed online too so really isn't a fuss.

Peter, wasn't the DPA amended last December to prevent filming outside a domestic property? https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/cctv/"If your camera covers, even partially, any areas beyond the boundaries of your property, such as neighbouring gardens or the street, then it will no longer be exempt from the Data Protection Act (DPA) under the domestic purposes exemption. This does not mean that you are breaching the DPA but it does mean that you are subject to it."