Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
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Speaker 2: Every week we help you better understand that place where
Speaker 2: you live. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom
Speaker 2: home Builder, custom home designer, and most importantly, today, your
Speaker 2: guide to turning your ordinary house into something truly extraordinary.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the home monitoring revolution. We live in
Speaker 2: a unprecedentedly connected world right sometimes way too much, way
Speaker 2: too much connection, too much information TMI all the time.
Speaker 2: But some of that technology is actually of a great
Speaker 2: benefit to us homeowners, those of us who are concerned about,
Speaker 2: you know, when we're away, making sure there are no
Speaker 2: fires or floods or break ins or what have you.
Speaker 2: And what has happened over the last few years, along
Speaker 2: with all the rollout of new technology, is that the
Speaker 2: home has become a very very easy to monitor place
Speaker 2: and multiple multiple categories everything from your electrical panel and
Speaker 2: your energy usage to basic home security all the way
Speaker 2: to senior care and options for caring for an aging
Speaker 2: or infirmed a member of the family who you don't
Speaker 2: want to end up in a home, a nursing home,
Speaker 2: or maybe can't afford full time in home nursing care.
Speaker 2: These technologies are viable options for those as well. So
Speaker 2: we're all over the board today because the categories of
Speaker 2: connectivity have gone long and deep, and that's where we're
Speaker 2: going today. Plus, of course, your calls and when it
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Speaker 3: Yay. Either way, I'm still excited to be here. I
Speaker 3: know yesterday today was getting getting up was a little
Speaker 3: bit easier than yesterday. Now I'm like, all right, I know,
Speaker 3: I know what time I got to get up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there is a three hour difference from yesterday
Speaker 2: is today as far as.
Speaker 3: I've been here since I've been here since five, so
Speaker 3: it's the same for me. Oh yeah, but you got
Speaker 3: to sleep in that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I was up at five. Actually, also, well,
Speaker 2: you didn't get up at five. I was up at five,
Speaker 2: just getting it done, getting it done, as we do.
Speaker 2: I have so much to do on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: I was just sitting by the fire. Actually, oh, that
Speaker 2: sounds nice. But a lovely ease into the day, that
Speaker 2: sounds really nice. I was so sitting by the fire,
Speaker 2: thinking thoughts like I do, and writing some thoughts down
Speaker 2: that I will share later at the end of the show.
Speaker 2: But glad that you're here, buddy. Thanks. Uh. Sitting across
Speaker 2: the table from me, there she is. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: look at that face. It's amazing. You're so sweet. My
Speaker 2: better half, my design partner, the co owner, co founder
Speaker 2: of House Whisper, my best friend in the world, Tina
Speaker 2: is here. Welcome home. Hmm. I have some a little
Speaker 2: bit of a bourbon cream in my coffee this morning. Oh,
Speaker 2: I wondered if what that was. Yeah, not too much,
Speaker 2: I mean not like yeah, not like yeah, you saw
Speaker 2: the cream, You're like, what is in that coffee? Little
Speaker 2: bourbon cream. It's warm, it's refreshing in your Vermont cup,
Speaker 2: in my Vermont mug. Not enough that I'll be slurring
Speaker 2: words later. I'll just start luring them right now, all right,
Speaker 2: I'll be watching you. Okay, thanks, I appreciate that so much.
Speaker 2: To cover let's dive in, shall we. We need to
Speaker 2: talk about monitoring your home and how simple it is becoming.
Speaker 2: Let's start with security and along those notes, I've got
Speaker 2: some fascinating stats on home burglary that I'm going to
Speaker 2: share for you.
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Speaker 2: Whether you live in a condo or a cottage or
Speaker 2: a castle for that matter, if it is the place
Speaker 2: that you call home, I am here to help you
Speaker 2: take it to the next level. That's it doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: the size, does not matter, the scope. We're here to
Speaker 2: bring this one message to you. Design matters most, It
Speaker 2: really really does. The fundamental rule of home building and
Speaker 2: home remodeling. Design matters most. Along those lines today, one
Speaker 2: of the things that has changed the way that we
Speaker 2: design homes and the whole design kind of motif of
Speaker 2: homes is the fact that we can now monitor homes
Speaker 2: remotely via our smartphones and tablets and what have you.
Speaker 2: Let's just stick with the phone. That's the easiest way
Speaker 2: to uh, the most univerversal way to have this conversation
Speaker 2: because of all the cool tech that's out there now.
Speaker 2: Before the break, I said we were going to start
Speaker 2: with home security. It's a good place to start because
Speaker 2: it's something that is of concern to every homeowner. That's
Speaker 2: something I get asked about a lot. And so let
Speaker 2: me first of all, I'm going to say this, having
Speaker 2: built a lot of ultra custom homes on both mid
Speaker 2: range and high end, the state level homes, the kind
Speaker 2: of homes where there are guard gates and security measures
Speaker 2: and high walls and cameras and everything everywhere. I will
Speaker 2: tell you this in all honesty. Let's just face the
Speaker 2: fact if somebody, if a professional, a professional burglar, has
Speaker 2: targeted your home, they are going to get in. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to say it, but it's just the reality.
Speaker 2: Unless you live in a prison scenario or Fort Knox
Speaker 2: and nobody wants to do that. The high end professional
Speaker 2: is going to be able to get in. But here's
Speaker 2: the great news. How many homes in America are targeted
Speaker 2: by high end professional burglars. Virtually none of them. I mean,
Speaker 2: the percentage is so so incredibly small that it's not
Speaker 2: even worth mentioning. Okay, that is not the concern for
Speaker 2: your home. The concern for your home and your home
Speaker 2: security system should not be Fort Knox. It should be,
Speaker 2: in fact, the denial and or the discouragement of the
Speaker 2: opportunistic burglar. Okay. And by that so all right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna get to it in a second. It's just I
Speaker 2: talked to Conway about this on Thursday night on our
Speaker 2: little bit that we do every Thursday. And by the way,
Speaker 2: do you know I'm on with Conway every Thursday night
Speaker 2: round about six twenty or so. We spend a segment
Speaker 2: or two together talking about stuff and talking about you know,
Speaker 2: kind of foreshadowing where I'm going with the show that weekend.
Speaker 2: So Tim did this great job of building me all up.
Speaker 2: He's like, and now you know home security and bisiting.
Speaker 2: You know, we've all got questions about it. Dean, give
Speaker 2: us the wisdom. What's the thing we need to know?
Speaker 2: And I just started out by saying, you know, lock
Speaker 2: the front door. And it was funny because it's true.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, thirty four percent of homes that are burglarized,
Speaker 2: the burglars walked up to the front door, twisted the
Speaker 2: doorknob and walked right in. Thirty four percent. It's over
Speaker 2: a third just walked in through the front door. But boom,
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know you want to cut the chances
Speaker 2: of your home being burglarized by a third, lock the
Speaker 2: front door. And you know what, good idea to lock
Speaker 2: the back door too, because twenty two percent of homes
Speaker 2: that are burglarized are the results of somebody just walking
Speaker 2: through the back door. All right, So that's that's fifty
Speaker 2: six percent of the homes that are burglarized right there.
Speaker 2: And yes, we can add another twenty three percent of
Speaker 2: burglars that just coming through an open window or an
Speaker 2: unlocked window. So uh, thirty four twenty two what is that?
Speaker 2: That's fifty six sixty six, seventy six. That's eighty one
Speaker 2: percent of all burglaries that occur in homes across the
Speaker 2: United States took place as a result of somebody just
Speaker 2: walking through an open portal, an unlocked window, an unlocked door,
Speaker 2: front back or otherwise. There you go. Best piece of
Speaker 2: advice I can give you today. But otherwise, we're going
Speaker 2: to do some things to protect the home. Okay, of
Speaker 2: course we are burglary rates. Now, this is good news.
Speaker 2: Some of you are very much against the good news
Speaker 2: when it comes to, you know, our society. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it just messes with your worldview or not.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter to me. But these are, in
Speaker 2: fact the facts. Burglary rates have been steadily decreasing for
Speaker 2: over the past decade. For certain, there's been a sixty
Speaker 2: five percent drop in burglary rates from twenty fourteen to
Speaker 2: current day twenty twenty four. The burglary rate in the
Speaker 2: United States is currently less than one fifth of what
Speaker 2: it was in nineteen eighty. Now, one of the reasons
Speaker 2: for that, I mean a big reason for that is
Speaker 2: because we live in a connected, transparent world. It's just
Speaker 2: not that easy anymore. It's not that easy. Just well,
Speaker 2: it's easy enough to walk into somebody's home, but it's
Speaker 2: not that easy to do it anymore in our connected
Speaker 2: world without being detected, without being videoed, monitored, and so
Speaker 2: on and so forth. So this is the kind of
Speaker 2: stuff that has been dropping, dropping, dropping dropping the burglary rate.
Speaker 2: Now again, this is not going to prevent the professional
Speaker 2: cat do they still call them cat burglars? Cat burglar
Speaker 2: from from burgling burgling, burg burgling your home, But the
Speaker 2: vast majority of crimes committed against your home are going
Speaker 2: to be done by more opportunistic individuals, and a little
Speaker 2: bit of deterrent goes a long, long way, long long way.
Speaker 2: Most burglaries occur during daylight hours when most people aren't homes,
Speaker 2: so monitoring is something important. Homes with security systems three
Speaker 2: hundred percent more like, I'm sorry, I just said that wrong.
Speaker 2: Homes without security systems three hundred percent more likely to
Speaker 2: be robbed, and only fourteen percent of property crime are
Speaker 2: actually solved each year. Average cost to the homeowner twenty
Speaker 2: eight hundred dollars. That's average average cost if you get robbed,
Speaker 2: somebody breaks into your home. You know, that's nationwide average cost.
Speaker 2: All right, So what do we do about it? What
Speaker 2: do we do? Well, we have a whole arsenal of
Speaker 2: now kind of pay to play di wiable security devices
Speaker 2: that plug in and speak to your smartphone, that you
Speaker 2: yourself in relatively quick order could set up all around
Speaker 2: your home. We'll talk about those.
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Speaker 2: Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. I am here
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Speaker 2: We're going to be going to the phones in just
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Speaker 2: to talk about regarding your home today, give us a call.
Speaker 2: She'll tell you everything you need to know. Pop you
Speaker 2: into the cue. You can listen to the show while
Speaker 2: you wait, and then who knows you and I we
Speaker 2: can put our heads together figure out what's going on
Speaker 2: with your home. All right, we're talking about the connected
Speaker 2: home today, the home monitoring revolution. Now. I've talked about
Speaker 2: smart homes before, you know, and this kind of falls
Speaker 2: under that category, the larger umbrella of smart home connectivity.
Speaker 2: But specifically today our focus is your ability to monitor
Speaker 2: your home while you are not there. We're not just
Speaker 2: talking about fancy lights where you can just walk into
Speaker 2: a room and say hey, I want to have the
Speaker 2: lights this way or that way. This is all good
Speaker 2: and awesome. I love that stuff, love it. But today
Speaker 2: this is really talking about safety and security issues not
Speaker 2: only of your house from others, but your house from
Speaker 2: from goofs and plumbing and electrical defects, natural disasters, and
Speaker 2: also not just your house, but those people you care
Speaker 2: about who live in your house that may need a
Speaker 2: little assistance being monitored for their own safety as well.
Speaker 2: So we're going to get to all of that. So
Speaker 2: right now we're on the security side of things. What
Speaker 2: are the tools that you can use? And these are
Speaker 2: just about everywhere you turn and look these days, multiple
Speaker 2: different systems. You've got to choose how it is that
Speaker 2: you're going to kind of combine them all together into
Speaker 2: your personal network. This is going to be the biggest
Speaker 2: decision for you, is how to combine them all together.
Speaker 2: The day is coming very very soon. Well, it won't matter,
Speaker 2: won't matter what you buy, where you get, you're going
Speaker 2: to bring it home and your AI based personal assistant,
Speaker 2: whether it's the Apple one that starts with S or
Speaker 2: the Amazon one that starts with an A, or you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say their words because their names,
Speaker 2: because then they start talking back to us right now.
Speaker 2: So the idea, though, is you bring something home, you say, hey,
Speaker 2: I just bought this, here's the model number, and they
Speaker 2: detect it on your Wi Fi network and they just
Speaker 2: do all the setup and until you go plug it
Speaker 2: in and you're good to go. Right now, that's not
Speaker 2: quite there, but it is getting lots and lots easier
Speaker 2: every single day. I mean super super easy these days
Speaker 2: compared to what it used to be. So the point
Speaker 2: is you're going to have to decide what brands and
Speaker 2: how you're going to go when it comes to security products.
Speaker 2: For instance, simply Safe probably leads the market right now
Speaker 2: in what we would call do it yourself security systems.
Speaker 2: Now there's also live monitoring from others, not just you,
Speaker 2: available in systems like this. ADT is as I think,
Speaker 2: the nation's largest home security company. They also have equipment
Speaker 2: that they can either install or that you can install,
Speaker 2: and that they can monitor for you or with you, okay,
Speaker 2: with you, meaning that there's an app. And there are
Speaker 2: also you know, eyes on your home twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: These are all options that you've got, and now there
Speaker 2: are also all sorts of automation. Brands like Ring like
Speaker 2: your ring doorbell. Ring makes a lot more than just
Speaker 2: a doorbell. Nest, which is now a Google company, Nest
Speaker 2: makes a lot more than just the thermostat that they
Speaker 2: so famously started with. We use a Nest system here
Speaker 2: at our home. We've got Nest cams, Nest motion detectors,
Speaker 2: Nest thermostat, and it all feeds into one app on
Speaker 2: my phone, which is really really nice. So that's the
Speaker 2: kind of stuff that you're going to have to figure out.
Speaker 2: But what's available cameras? Of course cameras and by the way, way,
Speaker 2: all of this equipment that I'm about to mention can
Speaker 2: be either hardwired, meaning that you're actually supplying power to
Speaker 2: it from a source, or they can be battery powered,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people, you know, kind of shirk
Speaker 2: away from that because they're like, well, what if the
Speaker 2: battery runs up? Well, the nice thing about a connected
Speaker 2: system is that you get notification before the battery goes
Speaker 2: out on your app that you know, a sensor or
Speaker 2: one of the accessories is, in fact, you know, suffering
Speaker 2: from a low battery. Time to change it, time to
Speaker 2: recharge it, whatever the case may be. Some of these
Speaker 2: are rechargeable. Some of them you actually have a battery,
Speaker 2: physical battery that you insert into them. Again, you've got
Speaker 2: to decide how that works best for you. What I
Speaker 2: really like myself and what we've got here are I
Speaker 2: opt for like, especially when it comes to the cameras,
Speaker 2: even though by the way, all of these accessories take
Speaker 2: an amazingly low amount of power and the batteries last
Speaker 2: a long time. But when it comes to like our
Speaker 2: camera system, they are hardwired, but not like specialty wire.
Speaker 2: They're like USBC. They're like charging cables these days. They're
Speaker 2: hardwired into power so that they're always up and running.
Speaker 2: I never have to worry about batteries if we have
Speaker 2: a power outage. They have a built in backup battery
Speaker 2: in them and they keep going. So it's not as
Speaker 2: simple as you know, finding my electrical panel, hitting the
Speaker 2: power and thinking, oh, well, now I've got full access
Speaker 2: to his house because he'll never see me. That's not
Speaker 2: the way most of these work these days. So ideally
Speaker 2: you want a powered situation so you don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about the batteries. If you can do that and
Speaker 2: then have it built in integral battery, which of course,
Speaker 2: because it's powered, it always stays charged and it's ready
Speaker 2: to rock and roll anytime the power goes down, seamlessly
Speaker 2: still operating. That's cameras. Cameras are wide angle, They can
Speaker 2: be placed in any number of locations. They can be
Speaker 2: all by themselves. They can be combined with motion activated
Speaker 2: or camera activated floodlights. The cameras go in for red
Speaker 2: so that they see in the dark, they see with
Speaker 2: the light's on. They're very, very high resolution these days.
Speaker 2: They've come so so far. I mean, the average consumer
Speaker 2: security camera today is fifty times better than the most
Speaker 2: high tech security camera that we used to put in
Speaker 2: commercial buildings or banks, you know, thirty years ago. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's how far we've come. And that shouldn't surprise anybody, right. Cameras,
Speaker 2: that's one thing. You position them at major points of
Speaker 2: egress to your home. And I like the camera that
Speaker 2: is connected to floodlights, not because the camera needs the
Speaker 2: floodlights to see, but because that is the single biggest
Speaker 2: alert to somebody approaching the house that they've been detected.
Speaker 2: Motion activated floodlights are fantastic because as you approach boom,
Speaker 2: suddenly you're in the spotlight and you know what, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, At the end of the
Speaker 2: day again, accountability, non transparency. These are the things that
Speaker 2: stop the vast majority of home burglary. Of home crime
Speaker 2: is simply the awareness that, hey, you know, you're on
Speaker 2: candid camera. You are you know, my in laws have
Speaker 2: a little sign over the garage. I personally don't go
Speaker 2: this far, but it's that one of those signs that say, smile,
Speaker 2: you are being videotaped. You know what. It's just an
Speaker 2: awareness that people are like, Okay, I don't like this idea.
Speaker 2: I don't like I don't want to be seen. And
Speaker 2: it even goes so far as like the camera in
Speaker 2: the front of our home. I have I make sure
Speaker 2: one of them covers the street, so if you pull
Speaker 2: up to my curb, we see you, we see your make, model, color,
Speaker 2: license plate, the whole thing. And we're not crazy security
Speaker 2: conscious over here, but it's enough. It's enough. It's enough
Speaker 2: to know that we've got control. And the cool thing
Speaker 2: is whether we're home, whether we're shopping, or whether we're
Speaker 2: you know, on vacation on the other side of the
Speaker 2: country or the other side of the planet. Suddenly my
Speaker 2: phone buzzes I get an alert. I can look at
Speaker 2: it and everything from somebody standing at my front door
Speaker 2: delivering a package to our cat coming home in the
Speaker 2: middle of the night, walking down the side driveway, and
Speaker 2: the camera knows knows the difference between people. It tells
Speaker 2: me animal detected in the driveway, and there it is.
Speaker 2: There's Domino making his way from wherever that guy has been.
Speaker 2: Wherever he's been is pretty sus I'm pretty sure. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's where we're going. Uh, let's talk when we come back.
Speaker 2: Let's talk more about the other accessories beyond the camera
Speaker 2: and the flo blood lights that we can install in
Speaker 2: your home that all feedback to your smartphone app to
Speaker 2: let you know, to give you that peace of mind
Speaker 2: that you know what's going on.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on our program today. Have you
Speaker 2: looked outside southern California. It is a gorgeous day. I
Speaker 2: mean it's gorgeous. It's autumn. It's not going to be
Speaker 2: a cold day, but it's definitely autumn. You can smell
Speaker 2: it in the air, you can feel it. It's Southern California, warm,
Speaker 2: autumn day, not unusual for us, but it is beautiful
Speaker 2: out there. And I hope wherever you are listening to
Speaker 2: us from, be it southern California or elsewhere across this
Speaker 2: great land of ours, that your day is as beautiful
Speaker 2: as ours today, and that you've got plans to get
Speaker 2: out and enjoy it. I hope you do until five
Speaker 2: o'clock Pacific Standard time, at which point you should be
Speaker 2: seated watching the Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant and
Speaker 2: start their journey to the World Series. That's all I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Go Dodgers. All right, home security, what are the things
Speaker 2: available to you? What are the accessories available to you.
Speaker 2: We've talked to cameras and such. Let's talk a little
Speaker 2: bit more about what's available. Point of entry accessories. Point
Speaker 2: of entry accessories simply means this window and door opening detectors.
Speaker 2: And these are very very simple they I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: seen them. If you haven't, or if you're not aware
Speaker 2: of the magic with which they work, it's very very simple.
Speaker 2: They're magnetic. The vast majority of them are magnetic. You've
Speaker 2: got two a sensor and a magnet. The magnet mounts
Speaker 2: on one side, of the unit like the door, the
Speaker 2: other on the jam, same with the window jam and
Speaker 2: the window sash. When they are together, they complete the
Speaker 2: circuit and everything is fine and good. When they've been
Speaker 2: activated and you separate them to by opening the door
Speaker 2: and or the window, then boom, the alarm goes off.
Speaker 2: The alerts go out, and this is how you protect
Speaker 2: one of those major vulnerable you know, openings in your
Speaker 2: home and you get alerts. Sirens, by the way, when
Speaker 2: you're not home are a good idea. Maybe sirens when
Speaker 2: you are home are a good idea as long as
Speaker 2: you're prepared to, you know, have a heart attack when
Speaker 2: they go off in the house. You should definitely get
Speaker 2: a siren that can be heard, and that's you know,
Speaker 2: somewhat clearly sending the message you've been detected without necessarily
Speaker 2: being a defibrillator for your own heart system. Okay, so
Speaker 2: you don't need to blast somebody with a siren. That
Speaker 2: just needs to be a point of awareness. Now, some
Speaker 2: people are like, well, I'm not going to open this
Speaker 2: window because of the risk of sensors. I'm just going
Speaker 2: to break the glass to get into the house. And
Speaker 2: that's why in a room with a window to the outside.
Speaker 2: You can put a glass brake detector. Now that goes
Speaker 2: nowhere on the window. It can just simply be mounted
Speaker 2: in the room because a glass break detector is sitting
Speaker 2: there monitoring the frequency, the unique frequency of shattering glass,
Speaker 2: and when it hears it boom, it goes off and
Speaker 2: lets you know what's going on. Garage doors a major
Speaker 2: point of kind of overlooked entry into a home an
Speaker 2: attached garage. So here's my advice there. Smart tech garage
Speaker 2: door openers. Okay, they are the kind that lets you
Speaker 2: know when the door has been opened and or closed.
Speaker 2: They also and this goes to another kind of category
Speaker 2: of remote access, you granting remote access. A smart tech
Speaker 2: garage door opener not only alerts you when a garage
Speaker 2: door is open opened and you didn't open it, but
Speaker 2: it allows you to open the garage door remotely. So
Speaker 2: you're not home and you know your spouse forgot their
Speaker 2: key or something, something, a family member needs something. You're like, okay,
Speaker 2: are you buy the door good, I'm going to open
Speaker 2: the garage door for you and in they go and
Speaker 2: easy access into the house. But you don't want easy
Speaker 2: access for strangers into the house. Obviously. Also you should check.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have very very old garage door openers.
Speaker 2: One of the strong arguments for updating them is that
Speaker 2: modern contemporary, cutting edge garage door openers have what's called
Speaker 2: a rolling code. You've probably heard stories of thieves like
Speaker 2: sitting with scanners out in the street and sending out
Speaker 2: signals and decoding people's garage doors. Well, a rolling code
Speaker 2: garage door is a door that changes the code every
Speaker 2: single time it's used. Okay, so they are not the
Speaker 2: easy garage doors to hack from the street. Also, remember
Speaker 2: to lock the garage door from the garage to the house.
Speaker 2: It should have the same kind of security that your
Speaker 2: front door has on it. As well, it's not a
Speaker 2: bad idea to put a camera inside the garage facing
Speaker 2: the garage door so you've got full access there. And finally,
Speaker 2: if you don't have a late model car with an
Speaker 2: integrated garage door technology into the electronics of the car,
Speaker 2: then please don't clip the garage door opener to your
Speaker 2: sun visor or have it sitting there on your dashboard
Speaker 2: because basically you're out of shopping center and you're basically
Speaker 2: telling a criminal, Hey, if you happen to know where
Speaker 2: I live. Here's the keys to my house right here
Speaker 2: on the dashboard or on the sun visor. So they
Speaker 2: smash and grab your garage door opener from your car
Speaker 2: while you're at the mall, and off they go to
Speaker 2: open up your house. You can solve that problem even
Speaker 2: you have even if you have an old garage, there
Speaker 2: are companies online that will take your garage door, brand,
Speaker 2: the code, all of that kind of stuff and give
Speaker 2: you a keyfob opener for your garage door that you
Speaker 2: can just keep with you on your keychain. All right,
Speaker 2: so much more to come. But when we come back,
Speaker 2: it's top of the hour. It's time to go to
Speaker 2: the phones. We're going to take some calls and then
Speaker 2: we'll return to our conversation about the monitoring revolution for
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