I try to approach all the smart house stuff with my partner in mind. If I die tomorrow, I don’t want to leave a clusterfuck of confusion behind where she is trying to bring in experts to figure out how things work. For that reason, I’m phasing out Home Assistant. I replaced almost every home assistant device (zwave) and automation with Homekit or Lutron Caseta.

What home security system can I implement around the house that will be friendly for that situation? I’m looking for a system that includes…

• Window & door sensors
• Glass break or vibration intrusion detection
• Water detection
• An alarm we aren’t afraid to set bc it might falsely trigger
• Audible door opening sound, to hear when an exterior door is opened, and be able to hear it over the house speaker system or similar. Our server rack would contain any hubs, and its in basement, so it doesn’t help if thats the only speaker

I already have a high # of Unifi cameras around the exterior. I may add some interior cameras in less private areas of the house for when we’re away.

I’m considering Ring or Abode, or alarm.com’s local providers in my area. I can’t hardwire, it will have to all be wireless.

I feel like Ring is the only system with a good UI and good features. I see things about anti-Amazon, the fishy things they do, sharing stuff w/ police, but I’m tech savvy enough to turn those things off and we wouldn’t be using their cameras anyway.

Abode seemed meh when I had it at my business. Couldn’t put the speaker/alarm somewhere else other than the router location, and that’s located in our basement server rack.

Alarm.com – I hate that I have to go through a dealer/company. I want my partner to be able to fix or change things without a rep needing to visit our house.

Is there any other option I haven’t come across? Something high end but not requiring a dealer? Something new in the tech pipeline, like Matter?

Thanks for the help.