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[Sebastien]

@ravipal

Hubitat Safety Monitor. Has anyone used this? Do you just add motion sensors, door sensors and siren to the habitat safety monitor to use it a local security system. I am not looking for professional monitoring. I was thinking of getting the Ring Alarm. If I am only looking into self monitoring, should I go with the Ring Alarm or stick with the Hubitat Safety Monitor? Also, if I go with the Ring Alarm, can it be integrated into Hubitat?

I have both Hubitat Safety Monitor (HSM) setup and Ring Alarm. You are correct that you can add and setup motion and door sensors and then get alarms via a siren, and also via notifications on your phone devices, Alexa Echo, Google home, etc.

There is a community integration to Ring that works great but you need to remember that it could stop working if Amazon/Ring change something that impacts it. I currently use it and love it.

[Re-release] Hubitat Ring Integration (Unofficial)

I want to preface this by making it abundantly clear that I did not write this application. If you would like to see the history of how it came to be, and why I'm posting this, please see here: [WITHDRAWN] Unofficial Ring Integration This is a re-release of the Unofficial Ring Integration, originally by @codahq. I have forked the latest apparent release of the code, and packaged it for easy install through the Hubitat Package Manager If anyone wants to work on adding or improving to the code…

@ravipal

But I was thinking of having a few tablets around the house to control the devices.

Quite a few people do that. You can use Sharptools.io. Smartly is an external integration where you add your dashboard and it allows you to add other features to it.

@ravipal

which door sensors, motion detector, camera's and switches which can integrate with Hubitat and work with alexa/google based on people's experiece

There are a lot of options! I personally really like the Inovelli switches. My switches are either Inovelli or Lutron. For Lutron, a Lutron Pro hub is required, but well worth it!

I love the Samsung Smart Things Motion and Contact sensors, but they are not available right now... I understand that Aeotec will be producing them soon. I also really like the Inovelli motion sensors.

You will get a lot of options from the community. Welcome!