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Wed Nov 30, 2016 7:39 am
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johnpolasek
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- Location: Aggieland, Texas
My homebrew system run through Indigo and is a work in progress, but so far is working as well or better than a monitored system. In my case, the prior owner of the house had magnetic switches run from all the doors and windows hardwired into a closet during construction, but never installed a security system. I simply wired up an rPi's GPIOs to all 22 of the contacts and use Karl's piBeacon plugin to monitor them. I'm still playing with a mix of Z-wave motion sensors, but those are all $30 to $50 each if you want to toss the ADTs and start fresh there. I've also got a Z-wave glass break on order; I'll have to test it's range once it gets here to see if I need 3, 4, or 6 of them to get complete coverage... I currently use the pushover plugin to send alerts to me and my brother through our standard internet connection, but am thinking of possibly doing an "addaline" on our family cell plan and turning that into a separate subnet just for remote monitoring Indigo and the ubiquiti security cams since we never come close to using the shared data limit and have banked all the rollover data they allow. At the house, the 4G generally stays up in bad weather... the Satellite internet does not.