Watched a commercial building job change my mind on wireless panels
I used to be a hardliner for hardwired alarm systems. Thought wireless was just for lazy installers who didn't want to crawl through attics. But last Tuesday I visited a friend's job at a 3-story office building downtown where they were retrofitting 40 zones into an old historic structure. No drop ceiling, no accessible crawl space, and the walls were all thick plaster and lathe. He showed me how he mounted a Qolsys IQ Panel 4 in the lobby and ran PowerG sensors to every door and window in under 6 hours. No fishing wires, no patching walls, no headache. I watched him program the whole thing from his phone while we drank coffee. That building would have taken me three full days to wire up traditionally. I'm not fully converted yet but I get it now. Anyone else come around on wireless after seeing it in the right situation?