To further your point, I live in a high-crime urban area in an apartment complex that gets broken into weekly by folks stealing packages and prowling cars. My a

To further your point, I live in a high-crime urban area in an apartment complex that gets broken into weekly by folks stealing packages and prowling cars. My apartment used to have no security, and it would have stayed there if I hadn't gotten into the open source Python 3 home automation engine https://home-assistant.io https://home-assistant.io. I got it up on a Raspberry Pi and fiddled with it for lots of things. Now, if my door opens or motion is detected and the alarm is armed: * My stereo gets turned on by an IR LED * A scary mp3 I threw together with dogs barking, sirens blaring, and monsters growling starts playing loudly * My camera starts taking snapshots and saving them locally and emailing them to me * All the lights in my apt. start blinking on and off If I'm home, this will wake me up if my door gets compromised, and possibly scare off the perp. If I'm not home I will almost certainly get the alert (services are up 99% of the time), and I feel relatively confident that it will scare off a low-level property thief. If professionals show up with SDR to jam my sensors, yeah they'll get in...I agree. But IoT home security is still good because some security is better than none, and there's no way I would have any security at all without it.