
Originally Posted by
Scrumpto
Two years ago I built a house and part of the package was a 2gig unit, three switch controllers and one year of monitoring and control of the switches, my thermostat, etc. At the end of the first year I asked the installer/monitor how I could continue using my device without the monitoring plan and he refused to respond to me. In my reading i discovered that I needed to obtain the installer code but again he refused to answer me. I contacted the builder and they told me there was little they could do.
So I have a 2gig unit (not Vivint or whatever), a few controller switches for lamps, a z-wave compatible thermostat and there's nothing I can do with any of them -- they're just sitting there.
Can someone tell me whether I should just junk this unit and go buy a complete system or whether I should actually try to make it work? If the latter, I need to know where to start, what I can make it do, how and what's it's going to cost. I've looked into the Piper systems and I'm simply wondering if I'm throwing good money after bad with this 2gig unit.
One final factor -- I have zero desire to have monitoring -- I simply want in-house alarms for doors, motion, etc. and that the unit contact me with any problems and also give me control of lights and such. I've had monitoring multiple times and while they call the police for you the police take over half an hour to show up so it's not worth having monitoring.
Thanks for any and all help. I really feel screwed over and I'm not fond of that feeling!
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