Do any of you have alarms in your home or on the door of your home?

@Hannihar (129470)
Israel
March 8, 2023 6:48am CST
I have two of them. The one in the bedroom keeps getting knocked down and I have one outside the door that can check all those that come to the door and surrounding area. So, how many here have alarms and are you happy with them?
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@marguicha (215408)
• Chile
8 Mar 23
I have alarms that I put after my house was burglarized twice about 3 years ago or so. But now I think that Luna is a better alarm than the expensive one I pay every month.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@marguicha I agree that Luna is a good alarm if she is a good watchdog.
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@marguicha (215408)
• Chile
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar I doubt that she is a good watch dog. She is too loving. But she is big so maybe the burglars are afraid.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@marguicha Was she there when the burglars entered your home and do the alarms help since Luna is very friendly?
@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
8 Mar 23
We have an alarm at our front door and also at the windows at the ground floor.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar - We installed them when we did not live here all the year round. Right now they are turned off most of the time, even during the night.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@LadyDuck Since they are turned off why do you keep them?
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
Anna @LadyDuck Do the alarms help you?
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
8 Mar 23
I just have an alarm kitchen clock. I don't have other alarm clocks as I use my phone and tablet to wake me up. They can work better since the alarms can be customized. Such as they will be silent in weekends and holidays.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
9 Mar 23
@Hannihar It is very little and not really like an alarm clock.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@youless Is that like an alarm clock the alarm kitchen clock?
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@youless What does it do? Does it alert you to problems at home if any?
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@RebeccasFarm (86755)
• United States
9 Mar 23
I do not have alarms. And here also, we are not allowed to take video at all so that means I could not have a camera recording action at the door.
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• United States
9 Mar 23
@Hannihar Oh that is my Mother..in the pic here you mean? I hope that person goes away..I emailed you
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@RebeccasFarm I will check the e-mail now. I checked out your store and very interesting. To me it looks like the price is in shekels and not dollars. The person is still there. How one can stand that long amazes me. I wonder what that is about.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@RebeccasFarm That is a shame that you cannot record anything. Who is that in the picture?
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@DianneN (246809)
• United States
8 Mar 23
I have a whole house alarm with motion detectors as well as a Ring Doorbell. The whole house alarm was installed years ago for the heck of it. I live in a safe area, but worry when living in Florida. I'm very happy with the alarms.
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@DianneN (246809)
• United States
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar All in Connecticut. Motion detectors let the alarm company know if their is movement in the house. We installed the Ring Doorbell mainly to see if we get snow while we are away in Florida and if we get plowed and shoveled. It's good for identifying people who come to the door for deliveries or for solicitation. It also helped us notice a bear eating the birdseed for our poor birds.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@DianneN So are the alarms in Florida too or your other home only? What do the motion detectors do? Also does the Ring Doorbell help?
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@DianneN Do you think you will install them in Florida too? Thank you for letting me know what the motion detectors do and the Ring Doorbell. Is the Ring Doorbell part of the camera that is installed and the door bell rings as part of the alarm? I have a doorbell connected to my alarm so could that be a ring doorbell or is the ring doorbell something else?
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@Kandae11 (53679)
8 Mar 23
We live in a rural area where there is hardly any crime, but l did have a camera installed when l lived in the city.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@Kandae11 Did you feel safe with the camera installed when you lived in the city? So the rural area where you live are the neighbors good people?
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@Kandae11 Is the alarm still in the place in the city or did you just take it out?
@Kandae11 (53679)
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar. No problems with neighbors. The camera did make me feel a bit safer.
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@mayka123 (16584)
• India
13 Mar 23
I dont have any alarms in or around my house. Only have CCTV camera just outside my main entrance.
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@mayka123 (16584)
• India
17 Mar 23
@Hannihar This particular one does not help in letting me know who has come. I have a safety door through which I can see who is at the door and if I do not want the person to enter inside I just talk to them through the door.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
13 Mar 23
@mayka123 Does the CCTV help you see who is close by and if they want to enter your home if it is someone that should not?
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
19 Mar 23
@mayka123 That makes sense to me. Is it a peephole that you have that you can look out and see who is at your door?
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@kanuck1 (4394)
8 Mar 23
I don't have any alarms at this time but have thought of getting one. Maybe I will get one one day.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
11 Mar 23
@Hannihar Thanks for the advice!
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
12 Mar 23
@kanuck1 You are welcome.
@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@kanuck1 If you need one and can afford one you should not wait and get one now but not one that goes off all the time and one that does not make noise.
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@ShyBear88 (59282)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Mar 23
None of my outer doors and windows have any alarms on them. This where I live is consider a luxury to have or afford to put on in. Now there are some that people in our area that just makes sounds when the door opens and closed but to have it set to have an alarm and it tell like the police like I said is consider a luxury. Parents tend to get the ones that just make sound when they have small children that can reach the door. My husband mom had to do that with her two younger boys and even with a high lock at the nearly the top of the door they still found ways to get out but couldn't stop the door sound from going off.
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@ShyBear88 (59282)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar If you have a silent alarm how do you know it's going off? Is it linked to a computer, your phone. We have an old internet connection and they told us once we disconnected it the box wouldn't peep. You know what it does, Peeps. It's not all day long it peeps at random like it was designed to do and it's a single peep.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@ShyBear88 I have a silent alarm. I hear this alarm go off all the time and do not know where it is. There are other alarms here and not sure they are good or not.
@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@ShyBear88 The code is on my phone and I can check to see who is outside in the lobby area. It does not go off I check it on my phone. There is no peeps or beeps.
@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Mar 23
We don't have alarms here. I don't really feel the need for them but many in the city do. I feel a bit more secure being in our village. The whole 120 houses are in a sort of compound and the main gate is locked at 6pm. Our gate to the street is locked and the screens and doors are all quite secure.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Mar 23
@Hannihar No, no guards. We have a keypad and we enter a code and the gates open automatically.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@JudyEv I get it. We have a code to get inside of our building and also need something to get on the elevator.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@JudyEv I am glad you feel secure and safe where you live. Are there guards at the gates to let people through in their cars?
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@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
8 Mar 23
Yes there are alarms here and security cameras. Take care and be safe.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@CarolDM You are right there.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@CarolDM Sounds like you have good security.
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@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar Yes ma'am. You have to be safe these days.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
8 Mar 23
Just smoke alarms. More danger of going up in smoke than getting robbed.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@JimBo452020 Hi Jim, where have you been? Welcome back. I think both would be good to have.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar Yvonne has been very poorly. Thought she was going to die. She was in hospital. I did a post about it
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@JimBo452020 I am so so sorry about Yvonne and glad she is getting somewhat better and that she is home again. I am glad you are the one taking care of her.
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@Adie04 (17360)
9 Mar 23
You mean door alarm? In my rental dorm, yes. But at my home with parents, nope.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@Adie04 A door alarm is a good example. Do people like to steal in your dorm so you need to protect yourself?
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
11 Mar 23
@Adie04 No, I mean an alarm on your door against those that want to enter that should not.
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@Adie04 (17360)
10 Mar 23
@Hannihar Oh, I thought you mean door alarm like the door bell.
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• Israel
8 Mar 23
We don't have an alarm on our home, we live on the 7th floor and often the elevator is not working, We also have a dog, and a cat, but I don't think that they are as much as a deterrent as the non-working elevator!!
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@lifecoachjerusalem thank you for answering my post and if the dog is trained to protect you then that is good. A cat can also protect people but not always. Non-working elevators are a pain and to have to walk up and down 7 flights of stairs is not fun.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@lifecoachjerusalem This person that has been standing out there a long time has a mask on and has been there a long time and is just standing by the elevator opposite our apartment. Actually the person is standing around the corner but by us and not standing at the elevators.
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@Hannihar It also discourages any thieves to try to come into the apartment. Of course if you have a lobby that is only accesible with a code, then you are safe too.
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@May2k8 (18079)
• Indonesia
11 Mar 23
I don't have an alarm at all and I have CCTV connected to the internet so I can see it even when I'm out of the house.
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@May2k8 (18079)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 23
@Hannihar You can buy it at a shop that sells CCTV that supports HD resolution and can record all events up to 7 days and our internet must be fast, because from the housing complex we provide it for free so I only have to pay for the internet package every month.
@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
12 Mar 23
@May2k8 What you have sounds good. How does one get that?
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@yanzalong (18984)
• Indonesia
9 Mar 23
Alarm is important, especially the one at the door. It tells you someone is at the door. I don't have that one. I have one in my phone that wakes me up at the set time.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@yanzalong It sounds like you have an alarm clock and not alarm to warn against burglars? Is that correct or not?
@TheHorse (205727)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Mar 23
I do not have any alarms. Well, my Xterra does, but it only goes off when I have the keys in my pocket and move the wrong way. 246 criminals have stolen things from that SUV, and it never went off. But if I bend wrong...
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
8 Mar 23
@TheHorse I am sorry that your car alarm does not seem like it works well.
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
9 Mar 23
It’s not common around here but we do have cctvs
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@sol_cee Does that pick up more than an alarm would?
@dgobucks226 (34365)
10 Mar 23
Yes Hanni. I have a chime alarm system throughout my home. I can set it to call the police in case of an intruder, but it costs to do that. I also have a web cam setup to view anyone who comes onto my front porch. It good to have some sort of safety feature these days.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
11 Mar 23
@dgobucks226 You are right to have some kind of safety feature these days.
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@dgobucks226 (34365)
11 Mar 23
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@Nurlia (84)
9 Mar 23
I don't have an alarm at home, usually people will have at least 1 alarm in their room, but I don't, I usually wake up with an intention in my heart, if I want to get up at any time then I will make it happen in my heart and in my mind, I do this therapy every day on me, and it works.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
9 Mar 23
@Nurlia I am glad you found what works for you.
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