The new Ring Alarm kit is great.

The Ring Alarm they just released is a bit of a game changer in the security market in regards to cost.

You can get 24/7 monitoring for smoke and theft for only $100 a year! Compared to the next cheapest option I could find (Simplisafe at $25 a month) or the robbery ADT wants to charge for monitoring with their DIY Smarthings kit and Ring is significantly cheaper. Plus I already had the doorbell, and so all the recordings are included at that price, so really its an incremental cost to me of $70 a year. I bet the insurance discount alone will cover that. Its a no brainer with no contracts.

For $300 I got the Best Buy kit with two keypads, three window/door sensors and two motion sensors and the hub. Extra door sensors are $20 a piece which is cheap enough I did my entire house already. For the smoke/CO detection it uses First Alert Z Wave you can buy at any Lowes for $45. Frankly I think my mom could setup this Ring Alarm system, its so so easy.

The Ring system needs some more stuff: a glass break detector, a way to talk to Smarthings like my doorbell with them will, a good indoor cam (they showed one at CES) that auto records when motion is detected (can't even do that with doorbell yet), and a way to arm via voice assistant. But they seem committed to all of this and with the backing of Amazon I am willing to grow with them given how cheap it is.

Highly recommended.