A:AnswerYes, it works on its own as a home alarm that chimes to alert you if an alarmed door or window opens. It will not allow monitoring by their monitoring center and alerts to you via phone/Internet without the Internet connection by which the monitoring happens. We are using ours as a home alarm that alerts us of intruders when we are home and might add the monitoring, which is only 14/month.
A:AnswerHi! SimpliSafe is a closed system, and our components cannot be integrated with a system from another company. However, any SimpliSafe system can be set up as a standalone local alarm, with no monitoring.
A:Answeryou add sensors by plugging key chain into computer and logging in. add up to about 30 parts including smoke alarm,glass breakage sensor, and super loud additional speaker.
A:AnswerPay SimpliSafe only if you want monitoring. About $16 per month without phone app control of system, about $26 with that convenience. What a change from previous system. Just three settings: off, away, and stay. Simple. And it works great.
A:AnswerYou can order additional pieces directly through the app or company web site as well as other online retailers. There is no contract involved. You are coming out ahead becauae you are purchasing the equiptment up from and can choose from a $15 or $25 monthly plan based on how you want to use the system and app.
A:AnswerNot entirely sure. They all speak English, though and have never failed. 24/7 round the clock. We monitor a dementia patient so the alarm is going off several times a day and we are always called immediately if we do not disarm first.
