Do you have a home alarm system?

[scfr]

Yes, we have an alarm.
But I believe that our fiercely loyal dog is both better protection and better deterrent.

[Nutria]

Yeah liberals generally don't understand the 2nd amendment.

I care about my FAMILY first and foremost, all other material things can easily be replaced.

try reading again what I've stated

I did:

I prefer reaction time in feet per second, not minutes until the police arrive

That's all macho and stuff, but FPS don't do much good when you're not around.

As much of a 2A supporter as I am, none of what you wrote answers how guns will protect your home when you're gone.

[AJ444]

I have two Canary security cameras that automatically arm when I leave the house, they do it via GPS tracking on my phone. As I mentioned in the other thread they send me an alert with a video anytime it detects motion which I can then speak through the speaker on the unit, sound an alarm or call the police.

[disneysteve]

I have two Canary security cameras that automatically arm when I leave the house, they do it via GPS tracking on my phone. As I mentioned in the other thread they send me an alert with a video anytime it detects motion which I can then speak through the speaker on the unit, sound an alarm or call the police.

Are the cameras inside or outside? Do you also have an alarm? I guess I'm not sure how just a camera would accomplish anything. Plus, I'm not always in a position to drop what I'm doing and check a video to see what's going on. By the time I could stop and look, my house could be cleaned out.

[AJ444]

Are the cameras inside or outside? Do you also have an alarm? I guess I'm not sure how just a camera would accomplish anything. Plus, I'm not always in a position to drop what I'm doing and check a video to see what's going on. By the time I could stop and look, my house could be cleaned out.

Inside, my building also has a locked front door and cameras in the hallways. I get an alert on my watch if it detects anything and it also records the video, I have to think that would be pretty valuable in a police investigation, several insurance companies give discounts for having it installed so they have to have some data backing up that decision. No alarm besides what is on the camera unit.

[Nutria]

I have two Canary security cameras that automatically arm when I leave the house, they do it via GPS tracking on my phone. As I mentioned in the other thread they send me an alert with a video anytime it detects motion which I can then speak through the speaker on the unit, sound an alarm or call the police.

Did you change the default password? Otherwise, it's almost certain to be part of an IoT botnet.

[Drake3287]

Did you:

• change the default password,
• then update the firmware, and
• use a different port number?

Otherwise, it's a metaphysical certitude that your DVR is part of a botnet.

Yes, yes and yes. I've had these Pro Camera's for a year along with the new solar charging panel's and couldn't be happier with the product. Took a while to tweak the system just right but it's now doing exactly what I want it to do.

[greenskeeper]

I did:



As much of a 2A supporter as I am, none of what you wrote answers how guns will protect your home when you're gone.

JFC

I could CARE LESS about material items! So if the house gets robbed, burned to the ground, etc when I am not home I could care less. That's why there's this thing called "insurance"

[Nutria]

JFC

I could CARE LESS about material items! So if the house gets robbed, burned to the ground, etc when I am not home I could care less. That's why there's this thing called "insurance"

Then (EDIT: in the context of burglar alarms) why did you write, "I prefer reaction time in feet per second, not minutes until the police arrive"? To me, that strongly implies that you do care about your house and it's possessions.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

hell no. I don't have a dog now but I would worry they'd be let out on accident and be gone. Beside the fact my last dog would probably bite the delivery guy.

[cypher1]

Then (EDIT: in the context of burglar alarms) why did you write, "I prefer reaction time in feet per second, not minutes until the police arrive"? To me, that strongly implies that you do care about your house and it's possessions.

I could interpret that statement as a possibility of defending myself and/or loved ones in case of a confrontation within a home invasion.

Sounds impossible, until you talk to family and friends who have been in that kind of situation where a stranger tried to break in to their homes while still at home. Ironically they all occurred in various quiet suburban neighborhoods.

[msomnipotent]

I could interpret that statement as a possibility of defending myself and/or loved ones in case of a confrontation within a home invasion.

Sounds impossible, until you talk to family and friends who have been in that kind of situation where a stranger tried to break in to their homes while still at home. Ironically they all occurred in various quiet suburban neighborhoods.

That happened to a house across the street from me during our 2 summers of discontent. The burglars were happy to break into unoccupied homes at first, and then they got bolder and bolder.

[Fishindude77]

I hate alarms. Can't tell you how many times I have been called into our business in the middle of the night for some stupid false alarm, interrupting and wasting both the cops time and mine. There has never been a "for real" instance.

I'd rather have good security lighting, good locking systems and a good insurance policy. If I was worried about physical threats I'd move or keep myself and family armed to defend.

[Nutria]

I hate alarms. Can't tell you how many times I have been called into our business in the middle of the night for some stupid false alarm, interrupting and wasting both the cops time and mine. There has never been a "for real" instance.

Maybe you need a better alarm system...

[kork13]

I hate alarms. Can't tell you how many times I have been called into our business in the middle of the night for some stupid false alarm, interrupting and wasting both the cops time and mine. There has never been a "for real" instance.

I work in a secure vault inside of a secure facility that is guarded 24/7 ... We have something like 3-5 layers of alarms/security, so getting false alarm notifications is sadly a way of life, especially for my office/vault in particular, and for the guarded gate with an automated man-trap. Those two things get false alarms as often as a few times a week, triggering a lockdown of the facility every time. So much fun! Whether someone slammed the gate too hard or a stray computer monitor left on at night sets off the motion sensors, there's a hundred ways for it to happen. Gratefully I'm low on the notification list, so I don't normally get called in to deal with the false alarms. Although the alarms have occasionally triggered for valid reasons (ignorant Joe Shmo walks through an alarmed area for example), only once or twice has it been a legitimate security threat.