27 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

Yep.

On the plus side it's great for business, just need to branch out into stab vests, tasers and CS spray.

2 minutes ago, norman said:

On the plus side it's great for business, just need to branch out into stab vests, tasers and CS spray.

Put me down for a Taser & can of CS spray 

1 hour ago, Specialist said:

Put me down for a Taser & can of CS spray 

Me3

6 hours ago, al-yeti said:

I leave couple of lights on at night , your more of a target with a dark house around here 

 

Ah you see in Somerset torches are way out of the budget of the average burglar, they get all confused in the dark and go for easier targets with the candles on all night.

I have a guy who does car ecu's ect...

 

He has been using https://nodered.org/ to mix & match home auto stuff

 

Its sound clever, but above my pay grade...

I've been playing with it, I started with home assistant then tasmota on sonoff. Have a look it's certainly not above yours h

https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

7 hours ago, MrHappy said:

I have a guy who does car ecu's ect...

 

He has been using https://nodered.org/ to mix & match home auto stuff

 

Its sound clever, but above my pay grade...

Hardcore stuff 

 

Ultimately ha is waste of time , it's lagging behind in tech , if it was the norm that all new build and people upgraded because devices were compatible enuf it would make life easier , 

 

So don't worry even if it's in your pay grade , you will be retired or dead before it really becomes something every household has got and it still wouldn't have happened

I disagree Al. Most home have some ha just nothing to do with the alarm Co. 

1 hour ago, james.wilson said:

I disagree Al. Most home have some ha just nothing to do with the alarm Co. 

Most? If you call a.thermostat and doorbell ha yes 

 

Majority homes don't 

Combinations of Node-Red, MQTT and Home assistant make for some nice integrations not bound by the logic of an alarm control panel.  SelfMon customers have already started building on top of the MQTT interface to the Galaxy panels.

 

I agree that this needs to be more plug and play though. Most setups require too much fiddling with config files. It's not complex, just requires knowledge of all the config file options. A bit like configuring alarm control panels...