Yeah, I’ve set mine up to do the three necessary things: deter ‘casual’ burglars (so there’s an obvious commercial grade sounder clearly visible from the street), text the family if the alarm goes off (so we know somethings happened and can get back home), and record internal CCTV during an activation (so the Police have something to go on).

We chose a ‘dumb’ old school wired alarm because they run reliably for years with just battery changes and dust blow-outs, and linked it to a network dome camera to handle the ‘smarts’.