Easy setup, fine user control, extremely thoughtful design!
I was using smartthings with a mix of smartthings, wink, and other z wave products for my alarm.
This alarm is better in my opinion than anything you can buy professionally or diy.
Design
First off, everything just looks nice and clean. The sensors are slightly wider and taller than my old sensors, but are way thinner which makes them stick out less. I really the design language of everything for the 2nd generation products.
Setup is really fast and easy. I appreciate this because z wave can be super duper finicky and hard/time consuming to setup. The thoughtfulness of design of everything is just bar none better than anything else. For example, starting with the base station, backup battery, cellular free, wifi and ethernet options, and cable management! Both the base station and keypads have cable management which gives options in setup to really make everything look nice! The keypad also can be operated wired or by rechargeable battery which again, awesome. On top of that, the base station comes with a great wall mounting solution that can be used permanent or semi permanent with the charging cable and not have to go through walls. The cable even has a notch to make it easier to pull out!
The sensors are amazing as well. Installation is easy with double sided tape and also the option to hard mount with screws. The detection distance is very good which helps for non aligned installations due to door trim and such. What I really appreciate is they use CR2032 batteries which I can buy almost anywhere. Too much of my other z wave equipment used rare batteries that were not stocked by walmart/target/etc. Also the batteries are easy to change and that is also something that really matters down the line.
Control and Integration
The amount of control has been just amazing as well. There are still improvements to be made, however with Ring they have been constantly improving and i feel like that is a huge benefit to this alarm in that the software will keep maturing.
I use multiple ring outdoor and indoor cameras with a doorbell pro, and schlage smart deadbolts. Together with this alarm, I have been very satisfied with how well you can sync everything up. First off my deadbolts synced up on first try which did not ever happen with smartthings. It is truly wonderful to be able to both arm and disarm my alarm from my deadbolt TouchPad. The ability to set one deadbolt to arm and disarm the ALARM with codes while the 2nd deadbolt doesn't is great. The amount of user control is great, but what makes this really stand out is I don't have to look online for custom schedulers or run iftt to get things to work how they should. You can easily make any single door sensor alert on open or close with a few different sounds. They can be separately configured or be turned all off/on based on alarm mode which is again great.
I already had Ring premium or whatever it is called due to my doorbell and multiple cameras, so this cost me no more than I was already paying. Paying $100 a year for camera and alarm service with cloud storage is a steal. Please don't ever change that.
Overall this has been everything I could have asked for and more. By far the easiest install. What was surprising was how well everything is designed and how well you can control everything to your liking.
I am hoping that my door sensors do not have the issues down the line that I had with other zwave devices. On the plus side, replacing a sensor is again just such a great design. You can just replace the sensor without having to undo any tape or screws due to the design of the sensor mount. Please, whoever designed these, give them a raise!
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Perfect for 1-2 bedroom homes
This Alarm Kit comes with a Base Station to keep your system online, a Keypad for in-home control, a Range Extender to ensure your Alarm devices have signal, and a Motion Detector. With four Contact Sensors to detect when doors and windows open, it's a great fit for 1-2 bedrooms homes.
Control your security with three modes
Place your Ring Alarm in Home mode to disarm your interior sensors, while keeping your exterior sensors armed. Set to Away mode to arm all the sensors in your home and Disarm your system to disarm all sensors and freely walk in and out of your home.
Do it all yourself
Easily setup your Ring Alarm system in minutes. Everything you need comes in the box and no tools are required. Simply plug-in the Ring Alarm Base Station, activate your system via the Ring app, and place the Contact Sensors and Motion Detectors in your desired location. Now you’re ready to protect!
Cover more rooms. Detect more threats.
To enhance your connected, whole-home security system, add smart accessories (sold separately) to your Ring Alarm, such as sensors that detect fire, carbon monoxide¹⁰, flood, and freeze and panic buttons to quickly request help.¹
Ring Protect Pro: The ultimate Ring home security subscription
For 67¢ per day ($20/month), get emergency support when you need it most with optional Alarm Professional Monitoring², internet outage backups, and so much more. Enjoy month-to-month coverage with no long-term commitments.
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Opt into Alarm Professional Monitoring², and if your alarm goes off, we’ll call to request the emergency police, fire, or medical dispatch you need.
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If your home loses internet connection, Alarm Cellular Backup⁴ keeps your Ring Alarm system connected and able to send alarm signals.
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I have taken full advantage of the ring 2.0 security system. My home wiring box now glows with an Ominous red glow or a cheerful blue at night. Mounting the base station In This way meant I had to get multiple wireless repeaters. My base station was on the 2nd floor and I had sensors on the first floor entirely. I was still able to push this unit to max operating ranges and I was also able to take advantage of having the base station chirp upstairs “audible to occupants on the 2nd floor” and the keypad chirps near garage door on first floor. This combined to make a very very cool tech savvy setup.When people visit my front door the big old echo show verbally announces there presence and the visitors can hear the announcement through the door like a PA Announcement (ring doorbell pro) the door lock and ring doorbell Integrate seamlessly into one unified place. This is what I’m after. Unified home Integration and automation with as few apps as possible. The ring app seems to serve general home security and operations well.Tips to deal with interference/weak sensor signal: if your trying the same way I did and mount ur base station in ur home wiring closet make sure to place the device up high and In the upper right or left corner of your wiring box so you can mount it with Velcro across the “top n side” that touches a wall. If you tuck it in too deep in the wiring closet it makes it harder for the ziggbee signal to get out. I even have this base station sitting next to Phillips hue smart bridge. I did have to change the ziggbee channel on the hue bridge. This also helped with interference.Take advantage of the base station having battery backup. When plugged in directly to the socket you will get push notifications when power is lost and restored. This is a really nice feature.My house came with linked smoke/co2 detectors. If one goes off the others do too. This meant I only needed one ring smoke detector co-listener. I placed a flood and freeze sensor behind my washer/dryer.One ring stickup cam with solar in the backyard. One stickup cam in the garage. One ring doorbell pro. Yes I will add a few more cams. :::update now at six cameras. You can adjust the cameras on ur dashboard to an OCD pleasing order.::::Yes I went all the way on this setup but it was fun making it all work together. Now my house talks/chirps! And my Wiring closet looks like giant HAL 9000 AI! If your a tech person go with this and get exactly what you want!
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I wanted to replace my 13 y/o ADT system (made by DSC) with something that had WiFi capability. The ADT system was still in excellent shape and very reliable but no way to connect it to the web. I chose the Ring … with the ultimate goal of having a monitoring service. All I can say is that Ring must have squeezed all of their experience and customer input from the first generation to create the 2nd. The engineering is fantastic. The app is as intuitive and solid as you can get. Every sensor/keypad/etc links to the base wirelessly... and are configured by the same Ring app that is used be the doorbell cameras. The app displays every device and sensor along with its status for easy troubleshooting. The door and window contact sensors have LEDs that wink when they're triggered. All sorts of nuggets that build your confidence in the system. The only device that absolutely needs to be plugged into power is the base unit (that also houses the alarm siren). For that, I ran Romex wire up from the outlet below and used a multimedia box to bury the base unit's little wall transformer like you do with TVs (see picture). I learned that trick from another Amazon review. I went the extra mile and also wired power to the rechargeable keypad (using ADT's original power wire and Ring's 5V USB transformer). Extra goodies: The Gen 2 keypad has emergency buttons (only work if you have the monitoring service). It lights when you approach it. It speaks to you when you arm/disarm it. I armed it "home" and "away" for a week to make sure it was stable (no problems). Then today, I called Ring and signed up for professional monitoring (Ring calls it "Protection Plan"). $100/year. Congratulations to you at Ring.
UPDATE: Limited functionality with door locks.
Still as happy with the Alarm System itself... but ran into a problem when adding a door lock to the mix. Ring's website shows a number of 3rd party locks (Schlage, Yale, Kwikset) that have been "certified" to work with the Ring APP. But be aware that the Ring APP has limited functionality with these locks.
THE RING APP WILL: Lock and unlock the door (you'll need the ZWAVE version of the door lock and have a Ring Alarm Base Station).
THE RING APP WILL NOT: Allow you to change the lock's lock/unlock codes.
Ring's APP has a "Guest feature" that is possibly designed to do that but, as of now (Aug 3, 2020), it does not work (confirmed by Ring).
In summary, Ring has a GREAT APP and Schlage (what I chose) has a GREAT lock... but if you are an Airbnb owner who needs to change codes via the web, this won't do it (maybe in the future?).
Also, if you are thinking you can just jump over to the Schlage APP to get the feature, the ZWAVE version of Schlage's door lock does not work with the Schlage app... I have read that the Schlage APP uses WiFi and thus needs the WiFi version of their door lock... but better check with Schlage.
UPDATE: Limited functionality with door locks.
Still as happy with the Alarm System itself... but ran into a problem when adding a door lock to the mix. Ring's website shows a number of 3rd party locks (Schlage, Yale, Kwikset) that have been "certified" to work with the Ring APP. But be aware that the Ring APP has limited functionality with these locks.
THE RING APP WILL: Lock and unlock the door (you'll need the ZWAVE version of the door lock and have a Ring Alarm Base Station).
THE RING APP WILL NOT: Allow you to change the lock's lock/unlock codes.
Ring's APP has a "Guest feature" that is possibly designed to do that but, as of now (Aug 3, 2020), it does not work (confirmed by Ring).
In summary, Ring has a GREAT APP and Schlage (what I chose) has a GREAT lock... but if you are an Airbnb owner who needs to change codes via the web, this won't do it (maybe in the future?).
Also, if you are thinking you can just jump over to the Schlage APP to get the feature, the ZWAVE version of Schlage's door lock does not work with the Schlage app... I have read that the Schlage APP uses WiFi and thus needs the WiFi version of their door lock... but better check with Schlage.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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