PREVENT: If your home is broken into when you are away, the sirens coming from the base station and siren if you have one, is normally enough to prevent the burglarly continuing. As well as looking at the best home DIY security system you can install in your home, I’ll also look at the pros and cons of such systems, how a home security system can improve the security of your home and the skills needed to install your very own security system in your home.

HSA Yale Essentials Alarm Kit is Part Of Our Starter Alarm

Here’s a brief description of this Ring home DIY security system, and what piece of equipment does what. Packaging isn’t everything, but it matters, and the neat, colour-coded boxes containing this fantastic system’s different components was a great start when it came to setting up SimpliSafe’s subscription-free Essentials package. This is great for getting a really quick idea of the quality just by seeing the sort of quality you can expect. In fact every one of them has an ‘extra’ piece in them, and I can only think it’s because the base station in each kit is counted as ‘standard’.It looks like you’ve already got some idea of the sort of product you’re inserted in, as you’ve landed on this YALE HSA Essentials Alarm Kit review. It comes with 2 motion detectors and a door/window contact that will trigger the alarm whenever movement is detected. The components, which come in varying hues of white and grey and weigh next to nothing, have clearly been designed to blend in and can be easily fixed into place using double-sided sticky tape – a blessing for renters keen to avoid hammering nails into walls. Alarm activation leads to alarms on your phone, the outdoor siren (if you have the siren) and the base station.

Yale HSA Essentials Alarm Kit Reviews - Updated October 2023 Yale HSA Essentials Alarm Kit Reviews - Updated October 2023

A lot of the base plates have push outs which can be quite fiddly in some instances, and the only item that can be fixed wth adhesive pads are the contact alarms – everything else will require a drill and some basic DIY skills. However, unlike Ring, it does have an extra items in the kits, and additional functionality and cross compatibility. This is insanely simple to set up – even if you are terrible at DIY, there’s very little that can go wrong.This affordable kit comes with a brightly coloured alarm sounder, a contact sensor and motion detector, and a simple keypad to control the system. The set-up process is slightly different to other alarms – instead of starting the process by creating an account, we started by registering our system, and only after doing this could we create an account. The two parts are placed on a door frame or window frame, and the other on the part of the door or window that moves.