Yeah, I'm still running an old Safewatch 3000 / vista 20 system in my house. Not sure if adt still installs them, but you could always pick up a used one and have them monitor it. Hardwire the panel and use wireless contacts/motion sensors. You can also add a (pulse) module to it so that you can run it through an app. The pulse app also allows you to add things to it like electronically controlled lights and locks. It can also run cameras, but adt's suck, don't use them.
If you don't mind wireless, I've been pretty impressed with Ring's hardware, especially their doorbells and floodlights. App software is very snappy and iirc, their monitoring service including camera cloud storage is fairly inexpensive at around $120 a year.
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