I have a home in a remote part of Europe. They don’t really offer alarm monitoring where the home is situated due to it being in the sticks. I currently have an ELK alarm system installed that is monitored remotely through the internet. I’ve been having issues with it lately and am thinking about replacing it with something else.

State side I love the Qolsys stuff, but that needs an Alarm.com subscription at the very least – or a backdoor setup through their control 4 api and home assistant.

Can anyone recommend any other options? I’d prefer to find something that would allow me to integrate control of things like garage doors, locks etc… into it like Qolsys can, but its not a deal breaker. Cell back up would also be great, but again, not a deal breaker.

Have our lighting and alarm integrated in Homekit which is working well. I am trying to setup an automation to turn on all the lights when an alarm is triggered, but it’s not working. Has anyone else set this up? I configured the automation to turn on lights when the security panel is “triggered”.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Mainly to be used due to vandalism among other security concerns during an 8 hour shift. Viewing the sides of the car would be preferable. Wasn’t sure if something like a gopro 360 plugged into a power bank would be a good option, something like a reolink/trailcam, or a more dedicated dashcam style system would work better.

DMP dealer here. We focus on commercial with the ocassional residential job mixed in. Looking for opinions on wireless transmitter performance. DMP panels, apps and software offer a lot of advantages but we have what I think is a high out of box sensor failure rate at 10%. We have noticed that Honeywell is far more reliable out of the box. I would do more residential if we didn’t have so many returns. I am looking for opinions from others. Thanks.