Many of them are complex, expensive or difficult to install.
Let’s hear it for simple, inexpensive solutions.
For a limited time, Cheapskate readers can gettwo Kangaroo Motion Sensors for $29.99 shippedwith promo codecheaparoo.
That’s some BOGO goodness right there: Normally the sensors are $29.99 each.
This is a relatively new product, something that boils security down to its most basic: motion detection.
When it’s armed and it detects motion, it triggers an app alert.
Kangaroo says the sensors' pet-detection technology will prevent them from triggering false alarms.
Kangaroo has three additional products in the works: a siren, an entry sensor and an environmental sensor.
Presumably, these will be similarly dirt-cheap.
For now, I love the price and simplicity.
That said, reality check: Why not just deploy aWyze Cam Pan, whichcosts under $36 shipped?
It gives you not only motion-detection, but also a live camera feed.
There’s no option for professional monitoring, either.
All that is to say, maybe you put cameras in some rooms and Kangaroo sensors in others?
Me, I’m just happy to see yet another super-affordable security option.
It’s called aVPN, and if you’re not using one, you should be.
I use this one myself.
In fact, I just used it on my flights to and from San Francisco.
(In-flight Wi-Fi is notoriously unsecure.)
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