Honeywell Home HS331S Wireless Home Alarm with Intelligent Control - White

This unit doesn't get great reviews on Amazon but took a chance based on the size of the company and its other good products.Its actually very well made with a solid (and loud sounder) and a substantial keypad. Window switches and the PIRs are easy to install and work well. Where the unit is let down is with its crazy and useless infographic instructions these just confuse and once I realised that there was a full instruction manual on the Honeywell website everything became easy and straight forward. Fitted in half a day including an additional 6 window sensors purchased on Ebay at a great price and which were really easy to link up to this unit. Once you read the instructions this is a great DIY installation alarm with no wires giving a really neat and flexible installation.Would definitely buy it again but would throw the enclosed manual away without opening it and go straight to the full version available online.

As some have mentioned the instructions that came in the box were pretty rubbish. No written text to them so hard to follow. We found the online instructions in the Honeywell website and used those.In the end it was pretty much plug and play as everything comes pre configured. We changed some of the sensors to different zones which was a challenge as the instructions are very sketchy. But we managed after setting the alarm off a few times!If your not confident fiddling around with this type of thing then this may not be for you. However even if you have little knowhow, if you don’t want to change zones that sensors are set up on as default and just want something to install and it works this will probably fit the bill.Overall pretty pleased now it’s sorted.

I bought this after I had my garage broken in to a couple of months ago.As other reviewers have said the documentation is pretty poor. Whenever pictures are used to indicate how to do something I think they aren't easy to understand the meaning.That aside the unit was quite straightforward to install as all of the sensors and proximity fobs are pre-programmed straight out of the box. All that really needs doing is to mount the control pad and siren on walls and fit the door sensors and PIRs.Sirens on both the internal keypad and the external siren are nice and loud.I've only had it installed for a couple of months so can't yet say what the battery life is on the various components. I use the door chime feature so that'll no doubt reduce it a little.No false alarms at all since fitting.I had a builder in who forgot the disarm sequence and triggered the alarm so a good test of the system.All in all very good value I think.==================Just a little more to add.I've now added a couple more door sensors to the system.This was very easy using the downloaded manual.I also changed the part-arm zone so that I can now arm just the garage sensors or the whole house.Another zone would be nice for a little more flexibility but I can't complain for the price of the kit.

I'd read a few bad reviews on this however decided to give it a try because most seemed to say it was due to the terrible quick start guide. Boy I wish I hadn't bothered!1 - The door sensors trigger the alarm immediately on opening! According to the online manual these should be set to zone c which should allow 30 seconds to dissarm.2 - On trying to resolve the door sensor issues I decided to dissable the alarm otherwise the neighbours would be seriously miffed. The switch in the alarm to do this doesn't dissable it!3 - Whilst the quick start guide isn't great, the manual is somewhat better, the manual doesn't give the correct information on how to correctly enter the service mode in order to take the alarm off the wall without it triggering the tamper alarm. I had to basically guess how to do it which was a combination of the quick start & manual!4 - Service mode doesn't do what it's meant to and disable the tamper setting which meant that on taking the alarm off the wall it still went off!I really liked the touch panel and had it not been for these issues then it would have been a great piece of kit however it's really not worth the gamble. Honeywell is a really well known make however this system is around £70-£100 cheaper than other less known systems which probably tells it's own story!