"Crash Gordon" wrote in message
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Most municipalities forbid dialers with voice messages to be transmitted
to police/fire/911 etc. If you want dispatch you'll have to go through
monitoring station.

Crash, you left out the part about the big fat fine a homeowner will get if
their system automatically dials 911...

You can program most alarms to page you on your pager, though this has
it's quirks. You can also purchase a voice module that will transmit
message to your cell phone...of course if it doesnt get through to your
cell you wont get the message. There are a lot of drawbacks to
"self-monitoring".

No...Brinks, ADT etc, do not send voice messages to 911. In my area our
central stations are given special phone numbers to dial into for
dispatch...not 911, and not end-user numbers.

Do you intend to install this yourself, or try to find an installing
company that will install a "local" alarm system? You may have trouble if
the latter is true.

hth

"Alex" wrote in message
ps.com...
Hi everyone,

Me and my wife are wanting to put an alarm system in our home, but we
live in a fairly good neighborhood, and though none of my neighbors
(some living there for 30+ years) know of any problems in the
neighborhood or surrounding streets, we'd feel more comfortable with
some sort of alarm system.

I know Brinks and ADT have remote monitoring, but I'd like something I
can monitor myself without monthly fee's. Ideally I'd love to have
something with window and door scensors plus glass break alarms, but
the perks I'd love to get are something that'll connect to my computer
and either send a page to me or better yet just call 911 with an
automatic message asking for help. All Brinks and ADT do is this,
isn't it??? Why pay them if a system can be setup to do this for me.

Thanks for any suggestions, but being a rookie in this field I'm not
sure what's available out there. I guess for me simply having an alarm
that sets off an alarm when the circuit around the doors and windows
breaks would work, but the perks of notification would be nice

Thanks for any ideas or thoughts.

Sam Alex