Posted By: Jim_Clennell
Home Security system (Bingo!) - 16/01/2021 17:43
Assuming all goes according to plan, Mrs C and I will be moving into a modest house of our own (well, a share of it...) in a few months.
We will be building a shed/home office in the garden and the location of the property makes it slightly vulnerable to opportunist burglars.
The time has come to research home security systems.
I think I'm mainly after CCTV, rather than alarms and I reckon 3 outdoor and 2 indoor cameras will suffice.
I'm probably leaning towards a cloud-based storage option, though the ability to store recent footage locally would not be a bad back-up option.
As ever, I'll be on a tight budget, so I'd love a bit of advice before investing.
The system doesn't need to protect us from Bond super-villains, so we won't need anything too sophisticated, but if it all integrates in a Smart Home style, so much the better.
A little online reading suggests that Wyze kit is good, but hard to get hold of in the UK at the same low prices as in the US.
I recently bought a couple of TP-Link Kasa Smart plugs, which are pretty good, but their home security equipment doesn't seem to get rave reviews. TP-Link's "even budget-er" Tapos range looks OK too, but (deliberately) won't integrate with the Kasa stuff.
I can see benefits to both battery and wired equipment as well as wired/wireless.
For reference, the house is a small, 7-yr-old, 2-bed end terrace and the shed/office will be within 20ft of the house. Cars will be parked on the drive (no garage) and it's a cul-de-sac, so any vehicle that enters has to drive past our house (I'm thinking number plates).
I know this subject was discussed a couple of years back, but I imagine tech has come on in leaps and bounds since then. Any knowledge on what is essential, how the systems are set up and what is a gimmick would be very welcome.
We will be building a shed/home office in the garden and the location of the property makes it slightly vulnerable to opportunist burglars.
The time has come to research home security systems.
I think I'm mainly after CCTV, rather than alarms and I reckon 3 outdoor and 2 indoor cameras will suffice.
I'm probably leaning towards a cloud-based storage option, though the ability to store recent footage locally would not be a bad back-up option.
As ever, I'll be on a tight budget, so I'd love a bit of advice before investing.
The system doesn't need to protect us from Bond super-villains, so we won't need anything too sophisticated, but if it all integrates in a Smart Home style, so much the better.
A little online reading suggests that Wyze kit is good, but hard to get hold of in the UK at the same low prices as in the US.
I recently bought a couple of TP-Link Kasa Smart plugs, which are pretty good, but their home security equipment doesn't seem to get rave reviews. TP-Link's "even budget-er" Tapos range looks OK too, but (deliberately) won't integrate with the Kasa stuff.
I can see benefits to both battery and wired equipment as well as wired/wireless.
For reference, the house is a small, 7-yr-old, 2-bed end terrace and the shed/office will be within 20ft of the house. Cars will be parked on the drive (no garage) and it's a cul-de-sac, so any vehicle that enters has to drive past our house (I'm thinking number plates).
I know this subject was discussed a couple of years back, but I imagine tech has come on in leaps and bounds since then. Any knowledge on what is essential, how the systems are set up and what is a gimmick would be very welcome.