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Re:Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push by throwawayp123 on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:27AM (#24037478)
Originally I had a local electric company take over our security system's sensors - it seems like the sensors are mostly standardized hardware where the sensors just read open or closed to some central hardware box, and the actual monitoring is handled by some third party. Might be worth investigating.It would have been a factor of ~1k more expensive to go with ADT for us.

Ring Alarm does offer a "wired alarm takeover kit" apparently: https://shop.ring.com/products/retrofit-alarm-kit

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Re:Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push by CedarMadness on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:41AM (#24038298)
This works if you have one of the wired systems, which are common on systems installed while the house was being built. All of the sensors are pretty easy to hook up, and there's even a DIY kit available from this company https://konnected.io/ if you're into that sort of thing

However, my alarm was added well after the house was built, and they used wireless sensors so they wouldn't have to open up any walls. These all use a proprietary protocol, which probably could be reverse engineered by someone smarter than me, but no drop in solutions exist. I am in the process of replacing all of them with Z-wave sensors to use with home-assistant, but removing them means re-painting all of the window trim.

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