I’ve had two Netatmo indoor security cameras for a few years but wasn’t happy with them. It was impossible to get them to cooperate so that the sirene didn’t go off when I got home. Besides that, there were too many false positives. The advantage of Netatmo is that every recording is saved locally on an SD card in the camera - no cloud. One of the cameras became faulty a couple of months ago, and I’ve also disconnected the

I want two things from an alarm system. I want to be notified if someone is in my house when I’m not home, and I want to know if I closed the garden door. One time, I forgot to close the garden door, and it was not funny being away from home and not knowing whether or not the door was shut. I have looked for replacements for the Netatmo system, but I’m unhappy about the cloud solutions. Meanwhile, I’ve become satisfied with the Ring camera and doorbell I purchased. So, when I received an offer for their alarm system, I bought it.

I’ve put up two motion sensors and two door sensors. The door sensors are much better than the ones from Netatmo, and the motion sensors don’t give false positives, so I’m happy overall. I still need to fine-tune the system, but in general, everything works smoothly. The default setting is to allow me 30 seconds to disarm the system when I get home, but I’ve changed that, so everything goes to sleep mode for 15 minutes when I get near the house. That way, I can take my time when I get home with my hands full without panicking because I only have 30 seconds to disarm the system.

The only thing that annoys me now is the chime I bought with the doorbell. It keeps on chiming even though the doorbell is in sleep mode. I think that it’s me who doesn’t know how to fix it. 😃