STITCH by Monoprice 4+

I am very security minded and have Ring & SimpliSafe but I wanted more flexibility with my Sirens. I wanted to be able to set off my Sirens when there was motion detected by my Camera and Stitch Motion Detector in my Back Patio without notifying Central Station. This would be a deterrent to anyone breaking into my Back Patio and hopefully would scare them off before they broke into the Main House. These products do the trick and I give them an A+.

I have been using the Stitch devices by Monoprice for a long time. Years. I have a variety of these modules in service. I’ll have to replace one now and then, but not so often as to be a problem. Every thing has a lifetime. Add electricity and then expect a little higher frequency. Again, not so often as to be a problem. I truly recommend them.

The Stitch software makes the devices very configurable, and it is very easy to use. That’s not the case with a lot of the other apps in this category. The only shortfall for me is it does not yet support Apple’s Home or Matter. This means I have to unnecessarily use two different environmental control apps.

I wish I could attach a screenshot of the iPhone screen "Today Ele (KWh)" tab for my "Wireless Smarty Plug Pro with Energy Monitoring & Reporting" device. I was going to use this instead of a Kill-A-Watt for inspecting power draw of devices. I thought that with a full color retina display they could show me better info than a 10 year old device. They show FAR LESS. Every number is labeled with a few characters followed by … and that takes up about 5% of the screen. THE REST OF THE SCREEN IS BLANK! It's not that they didn't have the room. It's like no one ever tried the interface after it was made. It doesn't even have units of measure! I recognize the 119.3 as being volts, but the 546, 62.3, and 0.00 I don't know.