Find Vera Service Cost

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Unlimited use of the [[Find_Vera_Service|FindVera service]] is free for the first 90 days.  After that you can continue with an unlimited plan that gives you everything, or choose individual services.
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== Free, Basic Service ==
  
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== Unlimited plan ==
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There is no charge for using the FindVera service for secure, remote access of your home from a web browser or cell phone.  There is also no charge for email notifications.
  
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This includes unlimited use of everything we offer.  There are no extras.  The price is $7.95/month, or $67/year (save 30%), or $199/one-time fee for the life of your Vera (carries over to warranty replacements).
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== $29/year for enhanced services ==
  
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== Individual services & technical explanation ==
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For $29/year you can receive notifications by SMS text message in addition to, or instead of, the free email notifications.  This price includes up to 50 SMS text messages.  This price also includes 1GB of storage on the findvera server to store a video archive from your surveillance and IP web cams, which cameras can be tied to sensors and door locks so you have a video record of who is coming and going from the home.  This is enough for about 50,000 images.  This service also includes remote monitoring of your Vera with an email or SMS text notification if your Vera stops working for some reason.  You also get automatic daily backups of Vera's configuration so, in the event your Vera unit fails, you can restore a backup and not lose any data.  Lastly, the service also includes 1 year of energy logging, tracking all your energy usage by device, room, etc.
  
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If you sign up for the unlimited plan you do not need to worry about what is involved with use of the secure service.  It's all included, and it's all automatically configured.  If you want to use certain services, here is a breakdown for each service individually.  '''''Note: The breakdown gets technical''''' since it is assumed a user choosing individual services is tech savvy and wants to know exactly what he's getting and how it works.  Don't worry if you don't understand the concepts; Vera is self-configuring anyway.
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== $10 for 50 extra SMS text messages ==
  
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'''SMS Texting:'''  US $0.28 / SMS Text, available in 50 SMS packages for $14.  There is no time limit, your SMS credits never expire.  Note: You can setup Vera to use your own outgoing email service for free.  However, since sending text messages to mobile phones requires payment to the cellular providers, we charge a fee for text messages.
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If you need more than the 50 text messages includes in the $29/year package, extra text messages are available.  Whenever your available text messages are running low you will be sent an email with a link to allow you to purchase more text messages.
  
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'''Use of the secure gateway:'''  If you know how to setup port forwarding or give Vera a routable IP you can remotely access Vera for free.  However, unless you have a SSL certificate it won't be a secure connection.  Use of our secure gateway makes it all simple and automatic, with nothing to configure.  Vera makes a secure connection to one of our secure gateway servers and you simply login with your username and password to findvera.com.  The gateway server acts as a go-between to keep the connection secure.  Unlimited use of the gateway server, with no data limits, is $5/month or $45/year.
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== $5 per Gigabyte per year for extra storage ==
  
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'''Video Archiving (1GB of data):'''  Vera doesn't have a hard drive to store video archives.  Being an open system you could setup your own PC software to store the archives.  The easier solution is to let Vera store it on our server.  Your images are encrypted with a unique hardware key so only you have access to them.  Use of this service is $4/month or $33/year.
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When your available space for video archiving is low you will be sent an email with a link to allow you to purchase more space.
  
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'''Energy logging:'''  Vera doesn't have a hard drive and cannot store large databases of information.  With this service keep a record of all the energy usage reported by Vera every 60 minutes for every device in the home.  We keep this data for 1 year, and generate charts and graphs to show your usage.  If you are familiar with setting up your own database server and know how to generate graphs you could also do this yourself.  Use of this service is $25/year.
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== Changes for prior users ==
  
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'''Daily backups:'''  You can backup Vera yourself.  Or, we can keep a daily backup of your Vera configuration, with up to 15 backup sets.  This way if your Vera box breaks or is destroyed you won't lose your configuration.  Use of this service with daily backups is $25/year.
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This pricing is effective July 24, 2009.  Users who received one of the lifetime FindVera subscriptions as part of a promotion will continue to receive all the features at no charge for life, and will continue to receive unlimited SMS text messaging for life, as per the original agreement.
  
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== Multiple units centrally managed ==
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Users who previously prepaid for an annual or lifetime subscription will receive an email for instructions on receiving a refund on any unused portion if they wish to change to the free, basic service, or the $29 enhanced service.  Or they may stay with their current prepaid plan which includes unlimited text messaging.
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You may have multiple Vera's that you want to manage from one single FindVera account.  For example, you may have several rental properties that you want to be linked to one FindVera account so they can be managed and controlled at once.
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You will have one 'master' account (ie username) which can control all the Vera's you have deployed from one management interface, and each individual Vera will also have it's own account, which allows control of that one Vera unit only.  This way, the property manager can manage all systems from one control panel, and can give out individual usernames/passwords to the occupant of each rental unit which gives them control over their particular unit.
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To price this, your first FindVera account is at the regular price and includes the first Vera, and every additional Vera that you want to manage from the same account costs 25% of the regular price.  For example, lifetime findvera service for 50 separate Vera's managed under one account would be $199 for the first Vera, plus $49.75 for the remaining 49, for a total of $2,636.75 for all 50.  Or, if paid monthly, it would be $7.95/month for the first Vera, plus $2/month for the other 49, for a total of $105.95/month for all 50.
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Revision as of 15:57, 24 July 2009

Contents

Free, Basic Service

There is no charge for using the FindVera service for secure, remote access of your home from a web browser or cell phone. There is also no charge for email notifications.

$29/year for enhanced services

For $29/year you can receive notifications by SMS text message in addition to, or instead of, the free email notifications. This price includes up to 50 SMS text messages. This price also includes 1GB of storage on the findvera server to store a video archive from your surveillance and IP web cams, which cameras can be tied to sensors and door locks so you have a video record of who is coming and going from the home. This is enough for about 50,000 images. This service also includes remote monitoring of your Vera with an email or SMS text notification if your Vera stops working for some reason. You also get automatic daily backups of Vera's configuration so, in the event your Vera unit fails, you can restore a backup and not lose any data. Lastly, the service also includes 1 year of energy logging, tracking all your energy usage by device, room, etc.

$10 for 50 extra SMS text messages

If you need more than the 50 text messages includes in the $29/year package, extra text messages are available. Whenever your available text messages are running low you will be sent an email with a link to allow you to purchase more text messages.

$5 per Gigabyte per year for extra storage

When your available space for video archiving is low you will be sent an email with a link to allow you to purchase more space.

Changes for prior users

This pricing is effective July 24, 2009. Users who received one of the lifetime FindVera subscriptions as part of a promotion will continue to receive all the features at no charge for life, and will continue to receive unlimited SMS text messaging for life, as per the original agreement.

Users who previously prepaid for an annual or lifetime subscription will receive an email for instructions on receiving a refund on any unused portion if they wish to change to the free, basic service, or the $29 enhanced service. Or they may stay with their current prepaid plan which includes unlimited text messaging.

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