Home monitoring system reviews

I'm using Ring. It's ok. With all of them the install is either half assed, or expensive. You really should install a sensor on every single window upstairs and downstairs, but that gets pretty pricey, and the sensors are ugly. I put sensors only on the doors and then installed motion sensors instead. That works ok with some limitations: can't arm the motion sensor when I'm home, doesn't work well with pets (even though they claim it will, eventually your pet knocks something over). Also all the cheaper installations are wireless, usually a combination of ZWave and WiFi. Might deters meth head but a professional thief will presumably just jam your signal and defeat the alarm device. As a result if you want real security you need it to be hardwired and that's much more work to install, running cables everywhere. Also arguably good video surveillance matters more than a good alarm and the video systems that come packaged with alarm systems are just ok. A good dedicated high quality surveillance system would provide much more useful images with higher resolution, better motion detection and better night vision. But for me in a relatively safe neighborhood the $10/m ring plan bumps me up from nothing to something. I'm under no illusions that it's a lower tier service and I'm fine with that.