Wireless alarms, honeywell, Yale etc

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Looking for opinions on the wireless alarms available on the market today.

The Yale & honeywell get good reviews, a major pro is the cost. Apart from replacing batteries, What are the cons of having a wireless system?

Any other advice welcome
 
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Not necessarily aimed at you Tirglas_7 but I do have trouble understanding when I hear a major reason for fitting a cheap and often nasty alarm to their expensive homes full of expensive gadgets and dare I say it, their loved ones, is the very low cost. Lots of people think nothing to spending out on phones and such like but consider the security of their biggest investment lower on the list of priorities.

On that note, I wouldn't fit a wireless alarm system to my property if it was free.
 
What are the cons of having a wireless system?
They all operate on shared Licence Exempt frequencies and as such can be disabled by transmissions from other legal equipment using the same channel and by transmissions from illegal jamming devices freely available to buy.
 
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The wireless systems can be cheap, and quick and easy to install by an unskilled DIYer with the ability to follow instructions and use a screwdriver. For the many people in rented homes, they can avoid the expense of buying a new one each time you move house, or of losing your deposit if the landlord complains about damage caused by installing a wired system.

You will hear vague and unsubstantiated stories about master criminals using electronic gadgets to disable the alarm before they silently pick your locks.

Outside Bedfordshire, however, a typical domestic house in a typical residential street is more likely to be attacked by a teenage crack head who struggles with any technology more advanced than a brick, and doesn't even know how to open a Eurocylinder on a plastic door.

If "cheap, quick and easy" are not at the top of your requirements, you can pay more and get better.

However, for less than the price of an alarm, you could buy British Standard locks for your front and back doors, and metal keylocks for your windows.
 
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The wireless systems can be cheap, and quick and easy to install by an unskilled DIYer with the ability to follow instructions and use a screwdriver.
And they are promoted by people who have little if any knowledge or experience of wireless communication systems.
 
If that was true (which it isn't) you wouldn't be reading my posts and suffering the inconvenience of feeling compelled to respond to an opinion that is not identical to your own.
 
[quote="http://www.yale.co.uk/en/yale/couk/advice/faqs/alarm-faqs/]
My alarm regularly sounds during the night, but there are no messages shown on the control panel. What is the reason for this?
This problem is usually caused by poor positioning of the external siren and will be exacerbated during bad weather, for example during periods of high winds and storms. Please place suitable waterproof packaging behind the tamper lever, also ensuring the siren cover is firmly screwed into place. If the problem persists it is also recommended to disable the radio interference detection.[/quote]

Radio interference can block alarm messages. That is the equivalent of cutting the cables of a wired alarm system.
 
And yet, in an ordinary domestic house, in an ordinary residential street, we don't get people complaining of that problem.

Browse through the 146 posts about Yale alarms on DIYnot, and tell me how many such people have been attacked by burglars using jammers, or had an interference problem they couldn't solve.
 
Many thanks for all the replies.

What would be a rough cost of an installed wired alarm to an average 3 bed detached house?

What brands/models do you recommend?
 
Risco Agility 3 and Pyronix Enforcer are my 2 main wireless panels that I install.
Never had any real problems with them and we have 350ish panels out there. As long as the alarms are installed correctly/batteries changed every year in sensors you won't have a problem.
 

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