Stopped in store and asked some questions, week or so later, call asking for an estimate. They send a guy that started working for them two weeks prior, this guy looks over my ENTIRE house and while doing so, tells me where the wiring will run, telling me that the installers will need to get behind or over certain furniture, to include the steps that go upstairs at the point of the ceiling. We sit down and discuss cameras, DVR and screen for viewing. I very carefully picked out the cameras, did not want a screen because he and I discussed that I would view the cameras on my MAC which was where the wiring would feed back to, where my modem is located. He writes up invoice, I put deposit down. I call office and set-up installation date. Now I have to start moving furniture and knick-knacks for wiring access. Installers come, I take them to where I was told the wiring would go and the very nice guy tells me he is not installing them where I had moved all the furniture and dressers away from and covered stuff in case of drilling. Now they install everything and I go outside to see all the cameras and they are not the cameras I requested. I called the office and spoke with John or Matt or whoever and they said if I want them changed they can change them, but not that day I was told because they guys get off at 4pm and they have another job to install. I took a day off of work for the installation and because of "new" guy that did not write the specific cameras I requested, I would have to take another day off, NOT. I said no, forget it, I'll deal with the one's that they installed. The Installers set-up my MAC with the software and gave me a VERY BRIEF explanation as to how to work the system and they were gone, afterall, they could not spend much time with me being they had another job.
I have had a slew of problems from the get-go. To start, First, I was told after all of the installation and onto installing the software or program into my MAC, that they program DOES NOT support Google Chrome or Firefox, I have to use SAFARI. So if I don't want to use SAFARI, I am F'kd. Then, did you know if you own and use your MAC for their system, you are going to have LOTS of glitches, and that is BECAUSE MAC does not support this surveillance system. So from there it went on to not being able to view the cameras to not being able to view the system on my smart phone. When this happens, they want your password to get into the system, which I am not giving them. So I have had to come down to their store, leaving work early to get there and put in my password. See, if you don't change your password, they can view your house whenever they want. I would hate for someone not to change their password after the installation, especially if you have inside house cameras. So something they should AUTOMATICALLY tell their clients, which they don't, change the password you give us to install the program, this way we can't view your house when we feel like it. So being they have very limited hours, you can't get them after a certain hour during the week, Saturdays, like today when an alarm was sounding from a box they installed, I called their office five times, left three voicemails and even called their New Jersey office and left a vm there as well, AND NOT ONE RETURN PHONE CALL. I do happen to have a cell number I can call, but I only want to use in an emergency and so today, I texted I and I was told call the office, tech support is the only one there today. Why should I call tech support AGAIN, being I left three messages, one on the TECH support vm, one on the SERVICE vm and one on the main vm. Isn't that the purpose of leaving a vm, so someone can call you back. Well, I ended up disconnecting the power stripe to this box that both owner and techy state that piece does not have an alarm. Well, it was ringing in our house for hours after we had a problem with the modem. Needless to say, techy called, his name is Greg and he is the only saving grace for this company. Jane at the front desk is pretty nice too. It is not so much the employees, well, definitely the dip-shit that gave me my estimate, he was and is useless. And to think he came from working for Verizon, no wonder he is no longer with Verizon. So it seems that they do not have their system features up to par, they should definitely tell people about the MAC not being an acceptable computer for their program and the BROWSER you use you will not be able to be used with their program. The issue with the MAC is a number of things, just an example, you cannot zoom in on a MAC with their program. I could go on and on, but I will say that it is amazing that they have a book on the table when you walk in that has all thank you letters, but no one gets to read the bad letters, like you will never see a copy of this letter in their book. You can't hide behind good reviews, the bad will eventually come out.
Okay, I am sick to my stomach writing this. read more