I just installed my Ring alarm system (have been using the doorbell for some time) and am quite happy with its ease of use and feature set in general, but I was hoping that its use of Z-Wave would mean that I coiuld integrate it with my existing Z-Wave home automation system. It doesn’t currently appear that I can add another Z-Wave controller (Hubitat, in my case, though I have ISY as well) as a secondary. This is a very common Z-Wave feature and is a glaring omission.
Simple Commands seems useful, but (1) I can’t figure out what the business model is or whether they’ll be around in a year (and the Ring authentication dialog has me submitting to a non-Ring site, which implies that OATH may not be used), and (2) it requires an internet connection. My preferred solutions do not.
TLDR: Let me add another Z-Wave controller/hub as secondary, please? I’d prefer not to maintain two separate Z-Wave networks in my house.
Can you enable a setting that causes the floodlight camera’s siren to sound when the alarm goes off. It isnt particularly useful to only have an indoor alarm if someone trips a sensor.
I was hoping that if I engaged the panic mode or if the alarm was triggered, then the alarms on my linked devices (4 x spotlight cam wired) would also sound. I can only see the option to turn on the lights or to record video at the moment.
I figured you would then have both an indoor and outdoor siren which would be insanely good!
I can’t find any information about the latest update but it looks like keypads now do enable chirps when sensors are open. They have a noticeable delay for some events but no different than the arm/disarmed.
It would be useful to have enhancement requests listed and voted on instead of as a forum so they can be prioritized by demand and so that we can see delivered features.
I know that we are able to assign tones to doors, however, there are only five to choose from. Any way there can be more? Specific alert sounds like, “front door” or “side door” etc. I have a two year old who likes to open doors. More chime options would be nice.
Yep, that’s all then. Maybe they can use the USB port for storage so we can load our own chimes and tones. Right now, it’s not being used for anything.
I think there should be volume controls for chimes and voice. In order to hear the countdown the volume has to be so loud that the “Disarmed” voice blares throughout the house. I also think you should be able to mute the voice on disarm. I don’t need a loud blaring voice to tell me that its disarmed. Simple feedback from the keypad would be sufficient.
“- Single PDF with documentation of EVERY alarm feature. I have found the website material and the simple owners manual to be too “dumbed” down to be helpful and have to resort to spending an extensive amount of time searching the site to see if a feature exists.”
My idea is to connect my outside path lights and floodlights to my alarm and then strobe if my alarm goes off. Also having my cams sirens go off as stated before would help.
The wording of the notifications are a bit clumsy, especially when you just have a single motion sensor in a room.
e.g. it currently sends me notifications such as:
_ Home Living Room in Living Room detected motion at… _
It’s a bit confusing and hard to scan at a glance.
How about omitting “Home” if the user just has a single property? (Or omit it if the name has been left as “Home”.)
Then, in order to avoid the naming awkwardness caused by needing to name the room and sensor, how about omitting the sensor name from a notification if it is set to the same as the room name?
This would then allow for both:
_ Living Room detected motion at… _
as well as
Flat Dining Area in Living Room detected motion at…
So no matter what the user’s setup is, the notifications will be clear.