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Pros & Cons
Pros
These are cool products to reuse existing wires sensors and connect to smartphone platform of choice that is doable for the average electronics tinkerer. For me the entire system is meant to reuse sensors for home automation. It allows me to integrate... Read More
Smartthings is a great way to add home automation to an existing alarm system. It integrates perfectly with smartthings hub and opens up your old dumb security system to a new realm of home automation.
This is a one of kind product. It's the disruptive, affordable, flexible product that we've needed for ages. Just be prepared for dedicating time for setting up an panel such as using an kindle fire 8” for the display.
A lot of flexibilty for set up and configuration. I have since home brewed a board because of the cost savings. Now that i have it setup, i love the customization!
Cons
Only videos of the found installing the interface panel. The onboard wifi chip is disturbingly terrible because it can’t cant to wifi in the house at 2. The retro pcb was working correctly, it is the wi-fi pcb that we could not get to work. It is not ... Read More
This is bad. No useful support. Just too goofy. Bad karma.
Highlights
Quality
Amazing support and product works better than i thought it would
If you already have the wires run in your house and are even thinking about hom automation i think youll be really happy with this product
I replaced my old dsc alarm system with this product
I almost knocked off a star bacause the product arrived missing a part
Price
99 month but the price has since gone up
Packaging/appearance
Instead of dealing with custom device handlers on the smartthings desktop portal everything can be done via the app integration
Competitiveness
I liked it so much i bought a secind one for my house
Integrating this into my smartthings hub and actiontiles panel was my most fun pandemic project yet
You do need a hub to make it work but the adt smartthings hub will not work with it
You can add the wired sensors to your smartthings hub or other iot hub
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- How are reviewers describing this item?
old, wired, easy, great and set. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 58.5% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 181 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 14 2022.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The tricky part is configuring the app and interaction with homeassistant
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I wish this would have the option to set the zones and rest api through the board itself but configurations can only be done on an external host not the device itself
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It took me about 3 hours to troubleshoot a connectivity issue but the product was not the issue it was a software bug
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The 24 zone set up was so simple i figured i was doing something wrong
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No more 60 monthly fees from adt
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Total self monitoring and can set up with alexa
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It was very easy to connect up to their mobile app
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had an issue trying to integrate to smartthings and home assistant
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