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eufy 5-Piece Home Alarm Kit

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · eufy · Security Systems & Alarms · ~$159.99 (list price on eufy.com at time of research (2026-07-31) — never treated as a live price)

Compatibility

Protocols: WIFI · ETHERNET^[3][7][14]

What it can do^[13]

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^[2][22]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

There is no subscription in this product at all — eufy's own words on the product page are "No Monthly Fees: Designed to protect your home as well as your wallet, eufy Security products are one-time purchases." No professional monitoring is offered for this kit either, which is the flip side: nobody is dispatched, ever. The kit manual documents no paid tier and no gated feature.

Maintenance reality^[1]

• Batteries: keypad and sensors run on user-replaceable cells; HomeBase 2 is mains-powered — expect roughly 24 months per set
• Works without the internet: Inconclusive — we read the vendor's own material and it does not answer this either way. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
• eufy advertises 6 months of battery life for the keypad and 2 years for the motion and entry sensors (the 24-month figure above is the sensor life, the longer-lived of the two). HomeBase 2 connects to the router by the supplied Ethernet cable and can alternatively join by Wi-Fi; the kit manual documents the sensors reaching HomeBase over a sub-1 GHz radio rather than Wi-Fi. No siren decibel figure is published for HomeBase 2 in either the product page or the kit manual, so none is recorded — and eufy sells a separate louder siren, which is a fair signal about the built-in one. Cloud dependence is recorded false because arming, sensor triggering and the HomeBase alarm are described as HomeBase-local; push notification to a phone naturally is not.

Security updates^[11]

eufy publishes no security-update support date for this model. That is a gap in what the manufacturer has published, not evidence either way — some makers declare a support period and some say nothing at all.

eufy has published no security-update support period that we can find for this kit, and that conclusion comes from checking three places rather than assuming. First, two separate searches found no product-specific regulatory declaration for any eufy model, and eufy links none from its own compliance pages. Second, eufy's privacy-commitment page has a Compliance and Certifications section that names a "PSTI Compliance Attestation" and says it "demonstrates that eufy meets stringent cybersecurity requirements outlined in the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023". Yet it links no compliance statement and names no support period, on a page that describes ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, ETSI EN 303 645, NISTIR 8425, CSA STAR and ioXt at length. Third, this product's own page says nothing about security updates, end of support or patching. To be precise about what this means: eufy has published no support period we can find for this model. It is NOT a finding about whether eufy complies with any regulation, and nothing here says it does. It can also change. UK rules (PSTI, the product security law) require makers to publish a defined support period for products sold there, so a vendor that says nothing today can publish one without notice, which is why this page is scheduled to be checked again rather than treated as settled. Kit note: unlike Ring's alarm kit, where every component type appears in Ring's own table with the same date, eufy publishes no per-component support table, so there is nothing to work out a kit-wide figure from.

The catch

The no-monthly-fee promise is real and unqualified — but read it alongside what the kit cannot do. Nobody is monitoring it: eufy sells no professional monitoring for this system, so a triggered alarm sounds and notifies you, and that is the end of the chain. And the smart-home reach is thinner than the box suggests: of the four devices inside, only the entry sensor appears in Alexa or Google Home, and only to report whether a door is open. The keypad and motion sensor appear nowhere, no assistant can arm or disarm the system, HomeKit support on HomeBase 2 covers eufy's cameras rather than this kit, and neither SmartThings nor Home Assistant lists anything from this line.

Who it's for

Households that want a self-monitored alarm with no recurring cost and are happy for it to live entirely in the eufy Security app — particularly ones already running eufy cameras on the same HomeBase. Not a fit for anyone who wants professional dispatch, or who expects the alarm to arm by voice or appear in Apple Home, SmartThings or Home Assistant.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

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