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I shop for everything here, after I find what I want be sure to price check as amazon often has better deals. http://www.homesecuritystore.com/ they also have a monitoring service for like $15-$20 a month. here is a link for the auto dialers. (they dial whatever numbers you want) I believe they have one where you can press # and have it dial the police and notify them of a break in. http://www.homesecuritystore.com/alarm-systems/alarm-accessories/dialers-voice-cellular
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I forgot to mention, if someone truly wants to break in all they have to do is buy one of these. http://www.twowill.com/productshow....rs-Working-Time that will jam your alarm system from dialing out via cell phone, cut your phone and internet to block those, break in then cut your siren and they are home free to do what they want. Cell phone jammers are ILLEGAL but not hard to get, I've also seen internet instructions on how to make them out of a battery, an old cell phone, wireless router & a radio. So what is the best home security protection? a sign out front of your house and on your doors that say you have an alarm system. lol most criminals are dumb and won't bother with alarmed houses, The ones that know how to use jammers and what not are robbing richer people. the truly rich though have dedicated alarm system channels so if their signal is interrupted by say a cell jammer or someone cutting the line it is the equivalent to tripping the system. I'm a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) and I'm studying for my CEPT or Certified Expert Penetration Tester (yes I know Expert Penetration Tester....) but I get to break into places for my job as we have to hack in via the net or we will attempt to hack or bypass their Access systems (fancy name for door locks & cameras) and plant a sniffer or other back door methods.
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Feb 9, 2016 00:25
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the jammer I posted was just the first one I found on google. you can google how to make one yourself its fairly easy. I live in Tampa, FL and saw on the news this guy built his own cell jammer and put it in his car and ran it while driving back and forth to work each day, they caught him because they did a roadblock as he drove the route the same time each day. He said he only ran the jammer so people wouldn't be on their cell while driving... lol I personally think it would make people worse drives as they would be trying to figure out why their phone wasn't working. Me personally I did not bother with an alarm system in my home until I had daughters... i also didn't own a gun before i had daughters or a shovel or a big back yard.... . I've been broken into a few times both while a roommate was home and he somehow didn't notice. (worked 3rd shift and slept all day) both times it was someone I knew that broke in. i don't know how true it is but my neighbor who is a cop said that most break-ins are done by people we know. we also get people going door to door in my neighborhood asking what kind of alarm we have and if they can take a look at it to upgrade it. Somehow I think if he was part of the alarm company sales team he would have been dressed like a professional instead of a thug.... lol it amazes me that anyone would fall for that but then again i just read in an IT magazine that 3.3 million people a year fall for the tele-marketers that call and say they are from Microsoft and that you have virus. The article said people lose over 5 billion a year in those scams. a monitored system does give me a discount on my home owners insurance although it is very small. absolutely bolt the safe to the ground... I had a friend of a friend that didn't bolt his down and he lost like 10 guns and he had a silencer in their as well. so ATF interviewed everyone of his friends, took his DVR and all his equipment and did not return any of it.
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Three Olives posted:So as of today Nest is completely integrated into Google Now and it is completely awesome. The only reason I was considering the Honeywell Lyric over the Nest was geofences, Google Now is 1000% better: I heard a rumor that the fbi has full access to google servers, not that I have anything to hide about my home temperature settings but it is an invasion of privacy. Can anyone confirm this rumor or is it straight malarkey? Also I don't see this posted anywhere, I saw a couple requests for DIY home automation. http://www.instructables.com/howto/home+automation/ this site is amazing for diy projects. I've seen raspberry pi home automation before its pretty cool.
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I'm stuck on a project and need help. Ty ahead of time goons. I'm fairly certain I should be able to figure this out but between being slammed and kids I think my brain is blocked on it. my client has the following "access control system" requirements. I put it in quotes as it is a single door lock we need. Existing: standard wooden door with separate deadbolt and a handle to open the door. Requirements: Door lock with either biometric controls ie facial recognition, finger print or smart phone authentication. (does not want smart card, keycard or other losable items or pin codes) The lock has to be able to be re-cored meaning the building has to be able to change the key to the lock whenever they want. the lock has to be operable either by the key or by the above mentioned controls but NOT both. meaning cleaning staff needs to be able to open with just key. the authentication & key access has to be recordable to a server or accessible with a minimum storage of 6 months of logs. lock has to be able to be unlocked remotely by a secretary either by software or hardware. has to have an included or separate camera system to view who is outside the door and either link to the access logs or at least be time stamp able to them. budget of around $1-2,000. wants but not needs. link users to active directory. able to lock or unlock the lock via smart phone app. other important or not info. currently I have had 2 POE Cat 6 cables run to the door and their is an electrical outlet that can provide more power if necessary. what I'm stuck on: I have found access control systems that meet all the requirements but they are around $5,000 & Up. ie https://kintronics.com/solutions/ip-door-access-control/ I have found locks that work with all the requirements except for they cannot be re-cored.
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Mar 11, 2016 18:04
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Thank You, I already told him either one of his requirements would have to bend or its not possible, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything the link I provided had all his requirements but was over $6,000. This one client gives me a minimum of 10 hours per week as they are a background check company and everything has to be secure and encrypted and is a pain. The owner does have unrealistic expectations and ideas on how the world works but that is a laugh for another day. Thank you again
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completely unrelated but I have a client that is a neuro surgeon and he only operates on brains. When we went to his home to install a new printer and etc, he freaked out on me about the idea of wireless, insisted that all cell phones be turned off around him, (guy still uses a wired home phone). when I pointed out his alarm system was wireless he literally had me unplug it until he could have an alarm specialist come out and wire it. (not as bad as the brother in better call Saul but drat) He said a bunch of medical jargon about how bad wireless was for brains. and how if i could see the mri of brains of people now and when mri first came out and there was very little wireless that I would never use wireless devices either. Now this was 3-4 years ago and I have not seen anything to support anything he said in any tech or medical journal so he may have been crazy but he was one insanely rich crazy person as he had a freak in mansion right on the water and had a big huge yacht on his private dock I looked up his house on the local site and it said that he pays over a million a year just in taxes to live there. moral of the story could be being crazy is profitable or that I have some really weird clients.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:42
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Droo posted:I am looking for some 1080 WiFi outdoor cameras to use with Blue Iris on my PC (or a dedicated PC, if I end up putting one together due to performance issues). My only other requirement is that I can lower the framerate down to like 1-4 FPS (so that the wifi doesn't get overrun with data). I'm no camera expert, (more of a networking & security guy) but at 1-4fps your basically taking still shots and not video. The minimum a camera needs to run to get "live video" is 30fps to get clear video your going to want more fps per second. To not bog down your network the better cameras use higher compression rates. Also remember that wireless camera's still need a power source.
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Mar 24, 2016 16:50
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KillHour posted:While you are technically correct in that sometimes having smooth video is more important (casinos, for instance), those situations will never come up in a home setting. It's easier to just ignore the exceptions to the rule when they wouldn't apply anyways. most businesses I have done this for want both clear pictures and clear video specifically to watch & catch shop lifters. I concede that for home a clearer picture may be a higher priority as all the camera work I do is for businesses.
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KillHour posted:This is because mortise locks aren't found in residential construction. Your condo palace needs one of these bad boys. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Prime-Line-Steel-Keyed-Mortise-Lock-E-2294/100123091 =) no not being serious...
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