The hardwired versus wireless debate at my last install

I did a 4 bedroom house in Arlington last month and went with all hardwired sensors instead of the wireless panels everyone seems to push now. Three days of fishing wires through attic insulation but zero false alarms so far. Has anyone else gone back to hardwired and regretted the extra labor?

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davis.linda1h ago

Man, the thing that gets me about the hardwired versus wireless debate is that nobody ever talks about what happens when the power goes out or somebody messes with the cell towers. I had a neighbor who went all in on a wireless system and when a big storm knocked out the grid and the cell signal for like six hours, his whole security setup was just dead. With hardwired, you at least have the option to run it off a cheap UPS battery backup and it still works even if the internet is down. Plus, I've seen too many stories where crooks just jam the wireless frequency and bypass the whole system in seconds. So yeah, crawling through that hot attic sucks but I'll take the extra labor over a system that can be silenced with a fifty dollar gadget from Amazon any day. And the false alarm thing you mentioned is real, I've been running hardwired for years across two houses and I can count the false alarms on one hand, while my buddy with wireless gets woken up by his motion detector every time his cat walks by the kitchen.