Okay, looks pretty clear to me now that almost ANY home alarm system is required by Australian law to be installed by a registered/licenced installer/cabler.
The "problem" for a DIYer is the cabling that is inevitably required rather than the alarm components - hence a registered cabler is almost always required.
If I understand correctly the ONLY exception is where two conditions are met:
(1) no cabling between alarm components exists (pretty rare). In other words all components, including keypads, must communicate with each other via wireless. And
(2) no components will be or have the ability to be connected to Telstra/Optus/Vodafone/other carrier's networks. That's assuming "connected" includes the mobile telephone network and does not just mean using the landline.
Given that any alarm system I would want must be able to notify me via the mobile telephone network when an alarm is triggered it means condition (2) above is not met and I'm stuck with finding an alarm installer.
Can anyone fault my logic ?
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