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I have smart lighting in the front and backyard but have trouble ensuring the bridge can properly operate all devices. I just installed some solar lights on west side of house and they failed to connect. If I move the bridge closer to front windows the back lights will fail to connect. Is this to be expected?
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30-05-2020 13:43:30
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- J
I live in a 60 yr old wood cabin (wood studs, thin wood siding and drywall interior) with no insulation. It has tons of single pane non-coated all original glass windows as well. That’s it. That’s the house. My yard stretches about 90 feet in all directions around the home. I have three Ring Low Voltage Transformers mounted outside to the wood siding of the home. I have three outdoor Ring Motion Sensors. No matter where I put the Bridge, it cannot connect to all of these devices. The best place I’ve found is in front of a windows that can see all of the outdoor Motion Sensors. From this spot, the low-voltage transformers are 20’ away from the bridge. It gets “poor signal” to those (which is odd), but works most of the time. The two closest outdoor motion sensors are 10-15 feet away in direct line of sight and get good signal and work all the time. The sensor that is 90’ away and in direct line of sight never works. I’ve swapped motion sensors and rebooted all, and change out fresh batteries. Nothing I can think of gets it to work. What can I do?
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19-02-2023 16:15:08
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- T
I have a new floodlight on the back of my house. I moved the bridge so that it’s in the outlet inside the house but directly behind where the floodlight is. Every time I check the signal from the lights to the bridge it says “Poor signal to bridge”. How can this possibly be??? The bridge is literally 2’ away from the lights!!! These garbage bridges are the reason we don’t install architectural lights around our property. I had a service rep contact me once about this but tried everything they said and no solution. Could this be a faulty bridge?
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24-09-2024 23:31:05
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- U
My mailbox sensor was hit-or-miss, being the furthest device. I use a couple of waterproof enclosures for my non-Ring smart holiday lighting power connections. Since Wi-Fi has a better range outside, I placed the Ring Lighting Bridge outside in an enclosure. So now all my Ring lighting connects to the bridge. Please bear in mind that the bridge is rated for indoor use. The enclosure is IP54 rated and I ordered it from Amazon. Ring should not only consider supporting multiple bridges but also making an outdoor version.
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27-10-2024 11:13:36
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Last post about this was Dec 2020. Now it's June 2022 and still no improvement to Ring Connect or the addition of range extenders? Is Ring going bankrupt, can we trust buying your devices for continued near future support?
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