Podcast #128 – Safe and Sound

With products like the Ring and Nest and Alexa starting to dominate the market, planning security, surveillance, and efficiency or running your main house, beach house, or ski house has become increasingly easy to maintain while being more complicated on the initial setup.

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Main Topic : Safe and Sound !

With products like the Ring and Nest and Alexa starting to dominate the market, planning security, surveillance, and efficiency or running your main house, beach house, or ski house has become increasingly easy to maintain while being more complicated on the initial setup.

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• 5 Gadgets You Probably Don’t Have at Home But Should Invest In

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• Things to consider : There are a lot of options available now so going in with your goals in mind will help you get what you want done right.

  • What is your comfort level being hands on or hands off ALL the time? Even when emergencies arise and when you are not often readily avaialble
  • How smart do you want to go or need to go. Just need a smart thermostat for savings, basic window and door monitoring, or full video for suveillance (or even just pet watching)
  • Plan what interface you want to have, such as Alexa, Google, etc.
  • Are you ok with thumb drive storage, need cloud, or remote access via phone, etc.
  • How much do you want to spend and what is worth spending on? top line vs mid range
  • How long do you want components to be good/relevant for?

• Fully Hosted Services : Hands off

  • More expensive, but less work and planning.
  • Ongoing subscription costs
  • Brinks Home Security
  • ADT Home Security
  • SimpliSafe

• Doorbells

  Ring – approx $250

  Skybell – approx $150

• Thermostats

  Nest – approx $220

  Hive – approx $230

  Vine – approx $130

• Wink – Hub, window, door, motion sensors and more

  The largest protocol support: Bluetooth LE, ZigBee, Z-Wave, Kidde, and Lutron Clear Connect.

  Wink Hub 2 only – approx $150

  Wink Lookout with Wink Hub 2 – approx $200

  Wink Hub 2, one Motion Sensor, one Siren and Chime, two Door/Window Sensors

• Blink surveillance cameras (an Amazon Company)

  Blink XT Hub with 2 cameras – approx $230

  have 1-5 camera sets $150-$500 plus add on cameras

• Halo Smart Labs : Smart Smoke and CO2 Detector

  Not found on Amazon so bought through Best Buy. Party Lights, smart phone connected.

• Kassa : TP-Link smart plugs (work with alexa)

  Kasa/TP-Link Smart Wi-Fi 3 Way Light Switch HS210 KIT – approx $70

  Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug w/Energy Monitoring by TP-Link HS110 – Approx $20

  Monitors amount of time plug was on and power that was used.

• ome Home Automation Leak Sensor Wireless Z-Wave Plus with Remote Probe

  Not found on Amazon so bought through Best Buy. Party Lights, smart phone connected.

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