What do you do for home security?

[desura]

Like, are alarm systems any good or are there too many false positives? Camera + DVR? Weapons? Etc.

 

[boomhower]

I use Frontpoint Security for my alarm system. If that doesn't make them pick a different house there is a South African Mastiff and a Great Dane waiting on them inside. While they are tangled up with them I have my own tools of various lethality to finish the job if need be. Also complete coverage of the exterior of the home with a set of IP cameras.

I've many a burglar say the best thing to have is a dog, even a small noisy one. Unless you are very wealthy and you home if of particular importance to break into the whole idea is to make your neighbors a more inviting target that you. I have worries due to my day job so cover my bases as much as I can.

 

[Homerboy]

Nothing.
Ummm I guess I have a motion activated floodligh ton my driveway.
OH! And there's a baseball bat next to my bed... but that's really just because it's my grandpa's from when he used to play in the '30s

 

[Carson Dyle]

Sometimes I lock the front door when I leave the house.

 

[Ns1]

I have a lot of dogs

 

[shortylickens]

Well, I've been trying to catch the worlds nastiest tomcat, but he's too smart for a trap.
However, keeping a bit of food out front means he's never too far away, and that seems to be good enough.

 

[madoka]

I let Glock handle it.

 

[Mayne]

I don't think i've ever locked my doors my whole entire life.

 

[Humpy]

No security other than a door and my wit.

I have nothing of any real value and probably wouldn't replace most of what might get stolen except for the bicycles.

 

[Thebobo]

If you don't mind a little poop and carnage a grizzly bear in your house will work.

 

[IronWing]

I leave legos scattered on the porch.

 

[IronWing]

I let Glock handle it.

By the time you decide which gun to use, the thieves will have hauled off your Helen Reddy collection and your gravity boots.

 

[Mayne]

I leave legos scattered on the porch.

that always stops ninjas in their tracks.

 

[Rifter]

i have a 1911 within arms reach of my bed.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Around my neighborhood I cultivate an image of myself as a violent psychopath who is not worth fucking with.

 

[MrSquished]

Nothing but a 60lb lab/pit mix. Who barks at people in the hallway making noise if I'm home. If I'm not home he doesn't bark unless the buzzer/bell goes off. He's just trying to protect me when I'm around, which is cute. But would do nothing if someone wasn't home. Live in an urban area but very low crime, I'm not concerned.

 

[tynopik]

don't have anything worth stealing

 

[Darwin333]

I use Frontpoint Security for my alarm system. If that doesn't make them pick a different house there is a South African Mastiff and a Great Dane waiting on them inside. While they are tangled up with them I have my own tools of various lethality to finish the job if need be. Also complete coverage of the exterior of the home with a set of IP cameras.

I've many a burglar say the best thing to have is a dog, even a small noisy one. Unless you are very wealthy and you home if of particular importance to break into the whole idea is to make your neighbors a more inviting target that you. I have worries due to my day job so cover my bases as much as I can.

So very much this. I have a German Shephard Dog that will dissuade all but the craziest of thieves but even simple stuff like believable but fake cameras on the exterior and motion activated lights make your house less appealing than your neighbors.

 

[cyclohexane]

Don't live in the ghetto

 

[Stopsignhank]

A combination of the above. My house needs painted. I sometimes lock the front door. I have 4 dogs. The 3 fifty pound dogs will come up and demand being pet until the burglar gets tired of it. The 8 pound guy thinks he will be a mean SOB, but as soon as you look at him he runs away.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Rottweilers.......hehehee

 

[local]

We have a security team.

 

[zinfamous]

I keep a life-size cardboard cut-out of shorty in my front window.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Security:

16 100 watt equivalent CREE LED around house. 25,600 lumens. X10 controlled. On from dusk to dawn.

4 solar powered floodlights along driveway. On dusk to dawn.

1 solar powered floodlight aimed at my flag.

3 cameras on at all times. Motion activated recording. Covering driveway, front door area and back patio. Last 2 also sound an alarm when triggered.

Intel i5 NUC running Blue Iris video recording software. Video monitor showing 3 cams on when I am up during the day. Another monitor in bedroom on all night.

1911 on nightstand.

Future upgrades to be PoE cams with PoE switch plugged into UPS along with NUC and monitor.

 

[Zanovar]

Thats a lot of security.just a baseball bat for me,i feel secure.