dbb1 Posted January 18, 2021 Posted January 18, 2021 I’ve been looking at the Elk M1 Gold system for several years, but now that I’m remodeling my house, throwing that upgrade into the budget to replace my old PC-1555 may now make sense. The question I have is with monitoring. I like the service I now use - it’s fairly inexpensive, and I’ve added their cellular comm into my hardware mix. Problem is, they have stated that the Elk system interface is not something they support. I know there is a service that you all seem to tout for use with the Elk platform, but is it a reasonable assumption that the Elk interface would work with/emulate a popular and widely deployed system like the PC-1555, to allow for monitoring by most service providers?
drich Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 As far as I know the ELK M1 should be able to talk to any alarm monitoring company, but it is up to that company whether or not they want to support it. Most companies seem to have one or more systems that they prefer to deal with. That said, I've been using Alarm Relay (https://alarmrelay.com) since I installed my ELK several years ago and love them. They are very affordable at $8.95/month, will happily support a long list of homeowner installed systems, and in general provide great service. On the few alarms I have had, I typically get the call from them before I even get the text page from my alarm company. And when we did have a break-in, they stayed on the phone with me while I confirmed the break-in with our cameras and they got the police to respond faster than I ever could. 1
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