yup will do chaps. Have now decided on the texecom speech only dialler. Should be ok.

Personally i think if you dont have your system linked up to a monitoring station, then you should at least have a dialler imo.

Most of the times neigbours etc will not phone the police thinking its a false alarm. At least if you have a dialler you can be informed of whats happened. And either you yourself can attend or phone a neighbour to at least investigate.

No point having the thing blaring away and noone doing anything about it.

yup will do chaps. Have now decided on the texecom speech only dialler. Should be ok.

Personally i think if you dont have your system linked up to a monitoring station, then you should at least have a dialler imo.

Most of the times neigbours etc will not phone the police thinking its a false alarm. At least if you have a dialler you can be informed of whats happened. And either you yourself can attend or phone a neighbour to at least investigate.

No point having the thing blaring away and noone doing anything about it.

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Very true. And the Police don't respond to neighbours calling police if an alarm is ringing unless there is a sign of a break-in.

Castle care tech make, or certainly made a text only unit, fitted one a couple of years ago, not sure if they still make it or not

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TEXT DIALER

Indeed they do although you need a pc to program the thing

Please forgive my ignorance, but does the Texecom S&T dialler actually send text messages via a mobile phone network using a SIM card? The prices quoted on the internet seem very cheap for a combined speech & SMS text dialler. Am I missing something?

It uses the PSTN network not the Cellular networks.

Thank you Alarmgard.

Could somebody recommend a suitable SMS Cellular based system that

You could look at something like this GSM Auto dialer

Or tackle it another way fit the standard PSTN dialer and fit a PSTN/Cellular interface like the Nokia Premicell

There a couple of dedicated SMS/cellular units on the market, but price wise/flexibility these would offer more options.

Colin.

Thank you Colin, I will pass that link on.

Regards

ZippyCat