Alarm System Recommendation for a self-install

[psarinuk]

Hello all,

I used to live in a 3 bed terraced house where I'd installed a Texecom Excel Ultimate KIT. It was quite reliable and had served me well.

I now live in a 4 bed detached house and need some recommendations with following caveats:
1. Before installing the built in wardrobes, I put wiring in place for PIR sensors in all 4 bedrooms + 1 in Living Room. 2 of the bedrooms are upstairs and 2 downstairs.
2. All the wires come together into an airing cupboard where the main consumer unit and gas/ electric meters are.
3. This airing cupboard is right in the middle of the house, while the internet router is by the entrance, so a WIRED CONNECTION between the router and the alarm panel (I believe mine in previous house was called Veritas) would be very difficult/ near impossible with built in installations and solid flooring in the way.
4. Because of points 2 and 3 above, I would prefer a WiFi enabled Alarm panel but Wired PIRs.
5. As I don't have a landline connection, I think I would leave out the Text/ Speech Dialler. Even if I get a landline in future, it would be right next to router so I would have the same issue with wiring as I have with panel I think.

Please feel free to ask further questions or correct/ update me on my 15 year old understanding. I look forward to all the recommendations from you.

Thanks.

 

[secureiam]

Best option is hard wired first.
Then hybrid
Then wireless only

Coms units can be added to most systems as for which one depends on what you want the system to do and whether you want scope to expand in the future.

 

[sparkymarka]

Pyronix 76 ….wifi xa card …..cheapest option but app on subscription after 1st year
Premier 24 plastic , keypad , smartcom ….app free ( no guarantees it may go to subscription)

 

[secureiam]

1. Before installing the built in wardrobes, I put wiring in place for PIR sensors in all 4 bedrooms + 1 in Living Room. 2 of the bedrooms are upstairs and 2 downstairs.
2. All the wires come together into an airing cupboard where the main consumer unit and gas/ electric meters are.
3. This airing cupboard is right in the middle of the house, while the internet router is by the entrance, so a WIRED CONNECTION between the router and the alarm panel (I believe mine in previous house was called Veritas) would be very difficult/ near impossible with built in installations and solid flooring in the way.
4. Because of points 2 and 3 above, I would prefer a WiFi enabled Alarm panel but Wired PIRs.
5. As I don't have a landline connection, I think I would leave out the Text/ Speech Dialler. Even if I get a landline in future, it would be right next to router so I would have the same issue with wiring as I have with panel I think.

1. You have 5 wired PIR slots.
no mention of door contacts, keypad wiring and or bell box wiring, you have wires for these also?

Bare in mind I don't know where your airing cupboard is in your home other than middle of the house, but guess it not n the ground floor like your router.

2/3. they all come to a central point and you don't believe you can get a hardwired cable from router to alarm panel but the consumer unit is in the airing cupboard.

any plug sockets already there?

4. Wifi for App as cant get coms cable from router location to alarm panel

coms wouldn't work during a power cut or a loss of ISP service.
Unless you had a UPS if power cut, loss of service can be resolved if you have dual wan on your router or usb 4g /5g dongle or phone.

4G subscriptions for alarm connections are usually more expensive than pay as you go phone connected in as a back up.
to be fair unless your out in the sticks , it be rare for a power cut and or isp being down but it does happen.

5. landline isn't something you have and location would make it difficult

PSTN lines you wont get a new one now, so you would need an adapter anyway, many use a gsm module for text and calls on pay as you go sim, advantage of this as a back up is it can be powered from the alarm panel and would use panel battery in the event of a power cut, it cant protect you from loss of mobile signal though. GJD710 for example now has a 4G version.