Ring really needs a v2 extender that is actually good. 50/50 didn’t cut it.Īnyway, just my thoughts on the extenders and placement.
The only two I’ve needed to use the extenders were both 3k ft² single story with long distance between ends of the house, and I located the extenders about 80% of the way between the base and sensors that needed a signal boost, with the extender closer to the sensor, farther from the base. Now these houses are all at most 3000ft² and on one two three levels. After the same issue with the intermittent yellow connection light on the first handful I installed, I removed the extenders and have had no issues since. But in the two dozen or so Ring Alarms I’ve installed, I’ve only needed the extender on two. I’d try this when you’re going to be around for a while, just to be sure, as you don’t want a sensor to drop offline while it’s set and you’re away. So if you’re having intermittent yellow connection light on the keypad, maybe try removing the extender for a few days to see if it improves/stabilizes, and also to ensure it doesn’t make any other sensors worse. Also, when updates occur and the paths are re-calculated, sometimes it might switch from the base to the extender, and now you’ve got a yellow light for a few days until it decides to re-map again and use the base again. If the extender is placed into the mix where it’s essentially too close, it can actually make the signal worse, as the device might use the extender when the base signal is more reliable, but a few feet further away. The base has a significantly more powerful transmitter and receiver, and works at much greater distances. Also, in many home installs, the range extender I’ve found to be more trouble than it helps. Its range is maybe 20ft if there’s one wall in the way, and 40ft line of sight. Very strange.Just some thoughts from my experience installing them and owning the system. As if it has a bad connection to the zwave network, but im using it in an area with a strong mesh. The red network icon on the keypad is lighting up. However, no key presses on the keypad are creating notification events. I can still send commands to the keypad like disarm, arm stay, arm away, etc. Everything was working fine until randomly, i could not listen to zwave js notification events anymore. Any chance volume control will ever be possible through this implementation? I see volume control inside the zwave js configure options. I forgot that I did actually have a question.
I think this is the current best keypad option for people using a DIY alarm system. Wall tablets just dont feel the same as a dedicated alarm keypad. Just wanted to say thanks again for the great work. Using it with zwave js (not zwjs2mqtt) without any problems. I finally got around to ordering a gen 2 keypad and setting it up.
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