Garage alarm that alerts your phone

[Pale Rider]

As title suggests i'm looking for a decent alarm for the garage that would alert my phone if movement was detected or the garage door was raised, seems a few battery ones available but nothing much mains powered which is what I would really like, what options are available and what are you guys using? thanks.

 

[Traffic893]

Could a ring doorbell be set up for that, it has night vision?

 

[Wapping]

Google:

mains powered alert that calls mobile phone good for garage

Or similar words.

Lots pop up. Scroll through at leisure. Some are not cheap. Some recommend having a battery installed as a back-up, too.

 

[er-minio]

(Connected) Camera with motion sensor that alerts via app/phone call.
I've had this for years using an Arlo remote camera + IFTTT integration for the voice call.

I cannot suggest to use Arlo anymore (service became very crappy, to be polite). But Eufy seems decent.

Most of the remote cameras can be solar powered and have a battery that will usually last weeks.

 

[Barnoe]

I have a ring doorbell, so it made sense to buy a ring spotlight plus

I have it pointed at my garage and you can use zones to omit anything else.
When triggered it puts a spotlight on and sends a notification to you phone

If you see an intruder you can set of a siren from the phone, while you get out of bed, grab a hammer and chase the feckers off in your undies.

You can run it from solar, 2x batteries or mains.

Ring Camera

 

[RedRick Esq.]

I have a nest ( google now) camera in my garage that alerts me to any movement etc plus obviously live feed

 

[grantmac]

If you have mains and an internet connection (wifi) then I can suggest a Ring Stick up cam.
I have a second double garage that’s 30 yards from my main house. Mains electricity but no internet. Bought a 4 G router and 2 Ring stick up cams placed so I can see every corner of the garage. Put in a cheap SIM card pay €11 per month for data only and it works a treat. Any movement including lifting the garage triggers auto filming and alerts me on my phone via the Ring App

 

[grantmac]

Router cost me €70 and each cam was €50 each. All done for €170 plus the monthly €11 for the SIM

 

[Udders]

We have just been down this process after 3 scrotes tried breaking into our double garage. We already had two floor bolts on each door and an extra piece of wood bolted across the top of the door to stop screwdriver attacks on the catches.

I looked at Ring and Blink systems ( I already have one camera of each ) and at the Yale one too. I bought my son the Yale Smart Home System and it all works very well. They also have a Ring doorbell.

In the end I decided to go to a local security company and get them to install a system.
That included an alarm bell box high up on the road end eaves of the garage, two interior sensors, two up and over door contacts the control pad thing, an app, full monitoring from their office ( plus a designated night contact who can see ALL their installs ) and all the wiring, labour etc.
it came to a total of £680.
Sounds expensive I know but like I said, full monitoring 24/7. They can also see any faults from their office so if anything goes wrong they come out immediately and sort it.
The app is £40 a year but free for the first one. This lets them watch the system.

 

[er-minio]

Sounds expensive

It's not that much actually. Decent deal.
When I I purchased my remote camera (these have a SIM card inside, so self-connect) the cost was about less than half of that (~300 quid). But we are talking just the camera, your install seems comprehensive.

From my experience, the main "issue" is if you have mains in the garage or not. I did not. And it spawned a massive chain of event/purchases over the years

 

[Udders]

It's not that much actually. Decent deal.
When I I purchased my remote camera (these have a SIM card inside, so self-connect) the cost was about less than half of that (~300 quid). But we are talking just the camera, your install seems comprehensive.

From my experience, the main "issue" is if you have mains in the garage or not. I did not. And it spawned a massive chain of event/purchases over the years

Yeah, there was already mains power in the garage which was handy.

Saying that though, the fitter connected the alarm to the lighting circuit initially so when you came out of the garage and turned the lights off the power was cut to the system!
One quick phone call and they were back up to change it to the socket circuit. They couldn’t apologise enough. A tiny but easily remedied mistake. He didn’t notice when he did his tests because the battery back up was taking over. All good now though.

 

[Zoton]

Ring cam for me. Can put it on mute for whatever time you need whilst faffing about. Can set it up to alarm and send alerts.
No issues so far. 2 years in.

 

[Udders]

Here’s the view from my Blink camera inside the garage. My garage queen 1150 in the foreground under a cover and the new alarm control panel on the brick separator between the two doors.
This has its own alert warning to my phone.




This is the view from my Ring camera looking down at the two doors.
Again it send me alerts between 10pm and 6am to my phone. I’ve isolated the road out so I don’t get any cars triggering it.

 

[grantmac]

This is the 2 cams from my closed garage. There are 2 skylights which let light in but even in total darkness the quality of the cam is excellent

 

[Dave T]

We use a Cinnado brand indoor security camera for in the house. Mains powered. They were cheap off Amazon and appear to work well. Link to a free app for notifications that you can 'arm or disarm' as required. The notifications send an alert to a phone of your choice, and footage to view. There is more functionality with the subscription service, but we don't use that. The free one gives us enough to be notified of a movement, footage to review to decide whether to get on the phone to plod as there's an intruder, or whether, as has happened recently, it was triggered by a spider crawling over the camera unit
We've been happy enough to buy a couple more for in the garage and shed. The free app will manage a small network of cameras rather than needing a separate account for each camera.

 

[Wapping]

There’s a great thread in ‘Show us yer garage’.

 

[Pale Rider]

We have just been down this process after 3 scrotes tried breaking into our double garage. We already had two floor bolts on each door and an extra piece of wood bolted across the top of the door to stop screwdriver attacks on the catches.

I looked at Ring and Blink systems ( I already have one camera of each ) and at the Yale one too. I bought my son the Yale Smart Home System and it all works very well. They also have a Ring doorbell.

In the end I decided to go to a local security company and get them to install a system.
That included an alarm bell box high up on the road end eaves of the garage, two interior sensors, two up and over door contacts the control pad thing, an app, full monitoring from their office ( plus a designated night contact who can see ALL their installs ) and all the wiring, labour etc.
it came to a total of £680.
Sounds expensive I know but like I said, full monitoring 24/7. They can also see any faults from their office so if anything goes wrong they come out immediately and sort it.
The app is £40 a year but free for the first one. This lets them watch the system.

Brilliant just the kind of answer i was looking for and thanks for your time in replying it’s much appreciated and something I will now go and look into.

 

[Pale Rider]

We use a Cinnado brand indoor security camera for in the house. Mains powered. They were cheap off Amazon and appear to work well. Link to a free app for notifications that you can 'arm or disarm' as required. The notifications send an alert to a phone of your choice, and footage to view. There is more functionality with the subscription service, but we don't use that. The free one gives us enough to be notified of a movement, footage to review to decide whether to get on the phone to plod as there's an intruder, or whether, as has happened recently, it was triggered by a spider crawling over the camera unit
We've been happy enough to buy a couple more for in the garage and shed. The free app will manage a small network of cameras rather than needing a separate account for each camera.

Another great answer, a must better one than “go Google it” thanks I’ll take a look at them.

 

[Pale Rider]

Google:

mains powered alert that calls mobile phone good for garage

Or similar words.

Lots pop up. Scroll through at leisure. Some are not cheap. Some recommend having a battery installed as a back-up, too.

Oddly enough I had thought of that but was keen to see what others were using.

 

[Wapping]

Oddly enough I had thought of that but was keen to see what others were using.

Great.