Skylink HA-318 Household Alert Motion Alert Set

by Skylink

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Alerts you when motion is detected surrounding your home or business.

Product Description

Indoor/Outdoor Motion Detector System. Alerts you when motion is detected surrounding your home or business. Supervised Sensor: monitors the sensors and their battery condition automatically. GM-318R can work with up to 4 sensors. (additional sensors sold separately) Both audio and visual indicators. Motion detecting range: 40 feet. Operating range: 300 feet. Best of all, the House Link Motion Alert System is easy to set up, with the sensor alerting the receiver wirelessly.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EN69DU
• Item model number: HA-318
• Batteries: 1 9V batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,327 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok as an alert, not good for security, December 13, 2007

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Daniel L. Bateman (Central VA) - See all my reviews
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First of all, the base unit is very small, not much bigger than a deck of cards. That's not a bad thing, it just looked bigger in the pictures.

It is fairly easy to set up and works fairly well, although it was a little hard to get the sensors working at first.

The trouble with this item is that it gives false alarms. I have 2 sensors, they light the #1 and #2 light on the unit. However, soon after I started testing the #3 light started rapidly blinking. I don't have a sensor 3.

And twice the alarm has gone off when it shouldn't have. I have #1 in my living room, I was home alone and it started beeping. I thought "what the heck?" and went out to the living room, nothing and no one was there. That was creepy though.

My #2 sensor is pointing down my basement stairs. Tonight as I sat here at my computer out of the corner of my eye I saw #2 blinking. Unless it can detect a mouse or something, there is nobody down there (or IS there?)

I think they need to redesign this unit with some sort of unique coded signal from the detectors so that there will be no false alarms. Otherwise, it's maybe good as an alert to let you know that someone is *probably* there, but not for actual security, it would make you paranoid with the false alarms.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many random false alarms, July 17, 2007

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D. Way (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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I had high hopes for this device, as one of the cheapest motion alert systems out there which supports multiple zones. I bought several of these devices to help monitor various properties (4 receivers and 7 detectors).

For the most part, the product is pretty easy to configure and detects motion well. The critical problem for me was that out of the 7 detectors, 3 of them were defective in terms of giving off random false alarms, several times per day. (The other 4 worked perfectly.) At first I thought it must be due to the detectors being overly sensitive to shadows or insects or something, but then I put all of the detectors in a closed shoebox for several days as a test, and these 3 still gave off occasional false alarms, so they were defective.

I'd recommend going with one of the slightly more expensive alternatives such as the RWA-300R Reporter, or if cost is no object, the Optex Annunciator.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars HA-318 House Link Motion Alert, March 6, 2005

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S. Pecoraro (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This alarm works just as described. It will alert you to motion detected of the premise being surveiled! I wish the siren was louder, and beeped continuously, until manually muted or turned off.