BarnTalk

The system is just smart enough to cause a headache. I’ve been using the system for over a year on a 30 year old 7 house farm. Due to the age of the equipment when we have large temperature variations the alarms will sound. But by the time I get in my truck they will resolve. And if I clear the alarm I have enough time to take my boots off and it will go off again. I have talked to representatives, sent an email to IT, and yet no one cares. The easiest solution is adding a since all alarms option with a timer. The exact same as the snooze option. But stopping the 63 phone calls in 5 hrs so I can sleep. The coding is simple, it can record a log so everyone knows who done what. Exactly the same as the snooze, but silence all alarms for predetermined time.. But as a testament to customer service, I don’t know how many complaints you need. But to much more of this and I’ll tear the system out and go back to agri alert

Overall works great albeit a bit pricey but on the other hand you usually get what you pay for.

We have been growing chickens for 18 years. Farm alarm has woken me several times in the middle of the night with not surly knowing what the problem could be. We have installed Barn talk on our eight house farm. We grow for Perdue. They have approved this style monitoring. It takes some time to get use to changing all the setting and proper monitoring. I wish they would make dry contacts with more than two connections as where you need multiple per house(like 4 option contact). However this has been nice and effective just a little more costly as each dry contact cost $225. They really will not budge on price as I called to see if they offer a discount to buy multiple sensor and the gentleman was actually rude about it. But we will slow add more of the other monitor sensors in time as we can afford. We current have two gateway, 23 dry contacts, 8 moisture sensors and 2 humidity sensors. We want to try out the bin monitor also, but that is to costly. So far we like being able to open an app and see what’s going on. There is still a long way to go with making this more efficient. But as far as we have found, this is as good as it gets for our age farm.