Recent content by JNA

@Linwood What's becoming very apparent to me is that one can't take any product or supplier for granted in terms of security and in particular how well (or otherwise) products are supported when security goes south in a big way, usually due to some newly discovered loophole/bug in the software...

I haven't looked at Shinobi in depth and have some similar concerns about a one man band but IIRC Blue Iris is still a one man band too or at least was for a long time if not still today (but stand to be corrected if not) so that can work out long term. I also use Snapraid which is in a similar...

@ Linwood. I read your linked overview of the options you considered thanks. Did you look at either Bluecherry or Shinobi options as i didn't see them listed? Not sure if they satisfy all your desires (and didn't see whether either supported reviewing multiple video streams simultaneously) but...

DEL thanks for the detailed response.   To clarify, my design criteria has come down to one of two extremes. A system that is going to ensure a police response to an alarm with all that entails in terms of equipment, communications requirements and monthly service charge. A baseline system...

BraveSirRobbin: You have my admiration regarding your Axis camera solution but that is indeed a bridge too far for me.   What also struck home for me as I delved deeper into the requirement for video verification is that any alarm sensor that is not video verified is now of little value as far...

Thanks for clarification on jamming not being reported.   Unfortunately San Jose isn't one of the locales you describe. They might decide to let a local mobile police unit know that the alarms are more likely to be genuine but there's no guarantee and based on my discussion with them and their...

Well ELK might want to engineer or otherwise get a solution for video verification if they haven't already because its not the limited market you seem to think it is. From this list on Videofied's web site...

DEL you seem to be misunderstanding what I am describing. At least two companies already produce such an item, Videofied and Alarm.com. The Alarm.com image sensor seems to be badge engineered by 2Gig and Qolsys and there may well be other companies doing so if their systems operate on the...

CRRC, thanks for providing the information on the ELK two way wireless, that communications scheme is exactly what I would want. The only problem is that ELK do not appear to have an image sensor in their current line up, but I've posted a separate thread asking about that. Thanks also for the...

Does anyone know if ELK has plans for an image sensor, i.e. a combined PIR and image capture sensor for their two-way wireless products?

I agree that the table isn't very well worded. Where the table column header says "Susceptibility to jamming & interference" it would probably be better titled something like "Ability to counter jamming & interference" and a rating of 5 means FHSS is best which is consistent with the statement...

I couldn't find Honeywell promoting spread spectrum publicly with either their Lyric panel or the SiX sensors that communicate with it. Maybe they believe that their end customers might conceptually understand encryption but would just be confused by discussion of spread spectrum. Clearly...

Sterling, Don't take my answer as gospel but as I understand it the Honeywell Lyric system uses WiFi and Z-Wave wireless technologies. What I believe you to be referencing is how to counter interference on the WiFi or Z-wave channel and not the application of spread spectrum technology. For...

Thanks for the feedback Sterling. I hadn't seen any mention of spread spectrum on the SiX sensors before, only the encryption hence my statement so your confirmation is useful. Is the spread spectrum discussed in any SiX documentation I can reference? I confess I had only briefly skimmed some of...

Sorry if I misled anyone. I didn't mean to imply that Videofied was only available from one-direct-to-consumer alarm monitoring company, they were just the only ones I found offering Videofied in my quick survey. I should probably add that there are other services that offer similar video...