security

[clawman]

With the advent of many different homeowner security systems I'm wondering what I should be doing for wiring or ??
What are you doing?
Home?
Shop?
??

 

[Falcon67]

Wireless, both home and shop. Currently on Vivnt.

 

[RWorth]

I got lucky, the way my house and shop are set up all my cameras are mounted on the shop walls except one , so all my wiring is in my shop. And it's all connected on my network cable so the monitor is in my office in the house.

 

[Killer95Stang]

I would make sure you have Cat6 cables run into your shop from the house. Everything else can be done later.

Also, if you already know where you want cameras if any around your garage or house, I would run network cable to those locations as well. Wireless is just not reliable enough for the amount of data that is transferred from a high resolution camera.

As far as security system. I chose to install DSC professional alarm system myself. I used a combo of wired / wireless contacts, motion sensors and smoke/ carbon monoxide detectors. I then had it monitored with Eyezon.com network alarm monitoring service. I pay about $8.95 a month and I have about $750ish in my own equipment.