Smartthings based Security Alarms (UK)

[JDRoberts]

To keep from repeating myself, I’ll just link to a post I did earlier today. It would apply in the UK as well.

Door / window sensors

Use a different system? Everyone has different priorities and requirements for a home security system. Many of us in the community (myself included) use a completely different system for home security than SmartThings. In my case, I have several minimum requirements for the home security system: One) it be able to send notifications when either power or Internet are out (SmartThings relies on The Internet to send notifications, even push notifications to your phone – – it has no cellular communication option ) it communicate with a monitoring Center that can dispatch fire as well as police response (the paid service that SmartThings integrates with, scout, can only dispatch police, not fire) it have a customizable entrance and entry delay for the security system (Smart …