Alarm Systems Perth

They are usually two separate systems that work alongside each other, both reaching you through apps on your phone. Some setups can go further and have an alarm trigger tell the camera recorder to flag that moment in the footage.

Either way, the pairing is what matters: the alarm tells you something happened, the cameras tell you what it was.

Not if it is designed around the dog from the start. Pet tolerant motion detectors are made to ignore an animal under a certain size while still picking up a person, and they need to be mounted at the right height and angle to do it.

Tell us about your pets when we quote, including where they sleep and whether they have the run of the house at night.

Not necessarily. Wireless sensors mount to the surface and talk back to the panel on their own signal, which suits existing double brick homes where getting cable down an internal wall is a real job.

Wired sensors are the better choice in a new build or a renovation where the walls are still open. Mixing the two is common.

Often, yes. If the sensors and their cabling are still in good condition, a new panel and keypad can frequently reuse them, and that costs a lot less than starting from scratch.

We test what is there before quoting. Where the existing equipment is too old or has been partly removed, we will show you why it needs replacing.

The panel has a backup battery inside it so the alarm keeps working through an outage. That battery is a wear part and needs replacing every few years.

If an old alarm has started beeping or chirping for no clear reason, a flat backup battery is the most common explanation.

The alarm itself works without it, since the siren, the sensors and the panel are all local to your house. What you need the internet for is the phone alerts and arming or disarming remotely.

If the internet drops out, the alarm still detects and still sounds, you just will not get the notification until it is back.

Yes, and that is what a part arm or home mode is there for. It keeps the sensors on the doors and windows live while ignoring the motion detectors in the parts of the house you walk through at night.

The zones get grouped around how your household moves, so a trip to the bathroom does not wake the street. We run through it with you so everyone knows which button does which before the first night.

The panel tells you. Wireless sensors report a low battery back to the panel, which flags it on the keypad and, on newer systems, in the app as well.

They take common battery types rather than anything exotic, so swapping one is a job most people are happy to do themselves once they have been shown. We point out which of your sensors are wireless during the handover so it is never a guessing game later.