Howdy,

For a small office-warehouse space, rather than pay ~$40/month for =20
alarm monitoring with the fear of extra excessive charges for false =20
alarms (past experience), I'm considering a DIY self-monitoring system.

I'd rather pay $40 for cable internet service, and have a system that =20
notifies me by email, text, etc that there's some intrusion.  With a =20
camera system (that I plan to get anyway), I can then log in to see =20
inside and contact the police if there's some issue.

Anyone know of any system that does this?  Preferably DIY as I can use =20
a change of project for a bit.  Or I could build one, but I'm not too =20
familiar with any type of ethernet/internet/IP communications (from a =20
microcontroller standpoint).  Perhaps I can do this easily with an =20
arduino, ethernet shield, LCD, and keypad.

Or perhaps someone knows a better forum to discuss this?

Cheers,
-Neil.


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