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How to Automate Your Lights via Your Z-wave Door Locks

Want your lights to turn on when you unlock the front door? This video from suretyCAM security and automation shows you how to create rules on your account, powered by Alarm.com, to do just that using your integrated Z-wave locks, lights.

Security Alarm Monitoring Quality, Price & Free Stuff

What’s the best security alarm system you can buy? How should you decide between the multitude of security alarm companies banging on your door all the time? One of the most often overlooked aspects when shopping for security alarm systems is the quality of the monitoring service you get with your security alarm. Security alarm […]

How To Prevent Garage Door Break-Ins

Your garage door is one of the most vulnerable entry points to your home. Most home owners assume that since it’s large, metal and motorized it can’t be opened without their garage door opener but burglars know better and so should you. Watch this video on how easily and quickly a burglar can open your […]

Why Alarm.com Is Better than Anything Else on the Market

Alarm.com has been around for over 10 years and it’s the most advanced, secure, and easy to use security alarm system on the market. It’s also ridiculously cool! Lesser systems like ADT Pulse have popped up recently in an attempt to compete with what Alarm.com has been doing for over a decade but they just […]

How to beat the heat (and high energy bills)

If there is a best reprieve from the summer heat, it is the comfort and reliability of a properly serviced and functioning HVAC system. Unfortunately, there is always a cost for comfort—a point of which my bank account is all too aware. In most of the locations I have lived, I’ve been almost terrified of […]

I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Reach My Medical Alert Button

We all remember the infamous “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” commercial. It’s the catch phrase that’s characterized the elderly and special needs personal emergency medical response (PERS) industry for the past 25 years… but what happens if you’re unconscious or you can’t reach the emergency button? Finally, after decades of the same old […]

“I got some nice alarm systems here under my jacket…”

Summer is here, and along with it, the lush greens, bright skies, and barbeques that define the season. People walk their dogs, families enjoy their yards, and salespeople put on their hiking shoes and friendly smiles to hit the pavement on their way to knock on countless doors. As a general rule, individuals approaching my […]

The Alarm Who Cried Wolf – Preventing False Alarms

False alarms are a problem that effects everybody. If you have a security alarm then false alarms can be annoying, frightening and even expensive when your local police jurisdiction fines for excessive false alarms. Even if you don’t have a security alarm, false alarms waste police officer resources, delaying real emergency response times and costing […]

How to Automatically Lock all of your Z-Wave Locks by Arming System

suretyCAM Security and Automation provides a tutorial for setting up home automation features through your Alarm.com powered web portal. In this video, we demonstrate creating an automation rule to lock all of your Z-wave door locks whenever you arm your alarm system. Never second guess whether you’ve locked the doors again.

How To Defeat a Security Alarm: Crash and Smash Attack

One of the reasons I love being a security professional is the never ending chess game we get to play with criminals. We invent a new security measure and they try to figure out how to defeat it. They invent a new security system attack and we try to figure out how to stop them […]

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