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Long story short, several years ago I was planning to build a new house and had looked into alarm systems. At that time I pretty much decided on the Elk M1 after a lot of research. Unfortunately do to some life issues, the house got delayed...I am now looking at building again and decided to revisit the Elk M1.
Unfortunately, it seems Elk is stuck in time? There doesn't seem to be any real updates with them, their home page still discuss Windows 10, which was released nearly 3 years ago. And worse, the M1ToGo, which lets you remotely control the system, still lists compatibility only up to Windows 7...Windows 8 was released in 2012, nearly 6 years ago, but there is still no mention of that?
I started looking at Bosch systems...and I know there is a bit of hate from people on Bosch/Radionics...but I have to say, I was completely impressed by the customability of their systems. Nearly every single setting you can think of is customizable, which is a big plus. I know Bosch is harder to program, but I used to install commercial alarms and I read over the manual and mostly understand it, so I'm not really worried about that...I'm mostly concerned with which is better and remote control/alert options.
Anyone have experience with both that can comment or recommend one over the other? Can you remotely control the Elk from a phone for free still or has that not been updated? How about remote control from the Bosch systems? Any advice and thoughts would be appreciated.
Unfortunately, it seems Elk is stuck in time? There doesn't seem to be any real updates with them, their home page still discuss Windows 10, which was released nearly 3 years ago. And worse, the M1ToGo, which lets you remotely control the system, still lists compatibility only up to Windows 7...Windows 8 was released in 2012, nearly 6 years ago, but there is still no mention of that?
I started looking at Bosch systems...and I know there is a bit of hate from people on Bosch/Radionics...but I have to say, I was completely impressed by the customability of their systems. Nearly every single setting you can think of is customizable, which is a big plus. I know Bosch is harder to program, but I used to install commercial alarms and I read over the manual and mostly understand it, so I'm not really worried about that...I'm mostly concerned with which is better and remote control/alert options.
Anyone have experience with both that can comment or recommend one over the other? Can you remotely control the Elk from a phone for free still or has that not been updated? How about remote control from the Bosch systems? Any advice and thoughts would be appreciated.