Long Distance Monitoring

[graham]

Hi @Andy_Taylor and welcome back.
There are (at least) two other Topics on this subject you may not have read through:

Smart home? Security?

My purchase in France is once again moving forward and I would like to get ready to set up something simple to turn on-off lights for the lived-in look and monitor the place etc while I am not there. Has anyone here set up something they like that works well? At home I use Smartthings, Konnected and Blue Iris because I like to tinker but I am open to using Ring or some other cloud based option if its more reliable for a long distance setup. For the first year or so I think I will be using 4G internet so I don’t want anything bandwidth intensive. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Remote access to home CCTV linked to 4G Box

I’m looking at how to install internet linked lights/heating/alarms with remote access from the UK but with no landline/ADSL,4G box internet does not come with a fixed public IP address, which I think must be a common problem? Any one found an affordable work-around?