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Moving to a new house soon.  It seems not to have a security system or maybe they had a wireless job, because there are a few sensors here and there, front door among others.

In our current home, local PD does monitoring, but when we moved in required a landline, so we initially blew it off and never changed to internet monitoring.  We live in a pretty safe area and were content just having a noisemaker.

I think we'd be content just having a noisemaker again, so don't require monitoring.  But cameras and entry and motion detectors might be nice.

Simplisafe seems to be the "school solution" these days, pros, cons other recommendations?

you can buy a fake "ADT" sign to put on your front yard for like $5

I replaced an existing ~10 yr old security system with Simplisafe last fall.  Package deal- base, sensor modules, glassbreak/ motion, indoor camera, etc. from Costco.  Think it was around $175.

Since I already had magnetic sensors on the doors/ windows from the old alarm system (these are basically two wires and a magnetic open/ closed switch), i got the soldering iron out, and connected the Simplisafe modules to the wires where the old sensors terminated in the alarm control panel.  Then removed the old system/ prettied things up.

So, I'm running wireless w/ Simplisafe, utilizing existing wiring/ sensors.  Works great, and I don't have the Simplisafe modules on doors/ windows.  

...And, have a couple of ADT signs out front for fun.

I’ve been pleased with our Ring setup.  I believe it’s wired, but assume they have wireless too (the cameras over our pool are, and they have been 10, better than I expected).  We pay for monitoring, it’s like $10/mo.  The cameras, at a minimum, are really nice. 

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