The best DIY Security around? SimpliSafe Home Security

The best DIY Security around?  SimpliSafe Home Security

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This deceptively well-designed home security system won our Editor’s Choice — find out why.

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LearningZone says:

$500! Awesome! If people can pay something like that for such plastic gadgets, would be real nice day! People need systems for very low cost.

Ishmael Sistrunk says:

You don't have to pay the monthly monitoring fee. You can just use it as a standalone and avoid the monthly fees altogether. Nothing scammish about it at all imo.

Matthew Crans says:

go with mydlink

Razor2048 says:

complete fail, I can understand a reliance on the cloud and payments to cover hosting cost when a device needs it, but this device, does not truly need a cloud connection.

If they wanted to, they could easily make it standalone as the majority of it's functions are pretty standalone (my house has an old alarm system where it is just the traces on the window to tell if the glass breaks) if it did, it would automatically dial 911, and supposedly it would have a few tomes that would play. the police will then know that an alarm was activated, and they would simply look the info up on the number to know the home address.  With more advanced technology that is not from the 60's, they could have the device be fully self contained and have remote access handled directly via the wan IP and a dyn dns service if the user wanted to not remember their IP address. kinda like how you can access your router remotely, or your NAS remotely, without having to go through a 3rd party server (the cloud)

What this company has done is essentially the same as what that skydog company did where they took a standard router, disable local access to a web UI, then essentially relayed it through their own servers, thus not only adding an additional point of failure to the product, but also add a new revenue stream by charging people for a service that routers traditionally offer locally (and firmware such as tomato and openwrt, prove can all be provided locally, and more)

With modern cell service, you do not need a sim card to make a call to an emergency number and probably play back a pre recorded message.

Overall, this product is a good concept but is implemented in a scammish way where you have an additional point of failure and an unnecessary cloud connection, and an unnecessary need to pay for something that the device should be handling locally, for free.

CresentX says:

how about changing the monthly fee into a small yearly fee? Keep it under 50 dollar so everyone can afford and make the customers buy the equipment.  I want one but dont want to dish out monthly fees.  

DoubleD 613 says:

No contract but monthly fees not cool fail

Eric Chan says:

I didn't know it was also a single serve coffee maker, xD

MogeyQ says:

SimpliSafe – Single Server Coffee Maker, lol

moshe sokol says:

1!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dylan Gill says:

So awesome!

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