Visually, both the MyFox home alarm and security camera look gorgeous – it’s the best looking security system we’ve used so far. In fact, its won awards due to this point, namely the iF Design award and the Red Dot Product Design Award. Both the home alarm system and the camera are made from what looks like high quality aluminium and white plastic, which brings a great unity between the product family.
It’s very sleek and understated and will blend into your home environment, which is exactly what you’d want a modern security system to be – you don’t want a huge clunky camera system, as it’d be easily spotted in any kind of home break-in.
The home alarm is a pretty large, circular unit with built in LED’s around the rim and two speakers on the bottom for its incredibly loud 110db siren – but we’ll talk more about that siren a bit later on. It has to be plugged in for a constant supply of power, but in the case of a power outage or a burglar switching off the plug, the alarm has a battery back-up that’ll keep it singing for long enough to deter any intruders.
The design of the camera is more impressive to us though, and it’s primarily because of two relatively simple design features. The first impressive design feature is its privacy mode, which uses a mechanical shutter to cover the security camera when you want privacy in your own home. Some people aren’t comfortable with the idea that a camera is recording them in their own living rooms 24/7, so the option to quickly close the camera shutter via the MyFox Security app is a better option than physically having to turn the camera away.
The second great design feature of the MyFox security camera is its use of magnets with its dock. MyFox has designed both the security camera and home alarm to be attached to walls and brackets for a more secure system – but what if you’re unable to secure it to a wall? MyFox provides a great curved dock for the circular security camera that uses magnets to allow for finite control over the angle of the camera. It’s such a simple feature to have, but one that makes the MyFox Security camera that little bit better than its competition.
