I didn’t notice huge lag with the adt panel. If you are using a v2 hub, I am guessing without internet, you can’t really do much with the sensors? i could be wrong. My understanding is that Z wave is potentially hackable, so having the ADT sensors on a different frequency and encrypted makes me feeling safer I guess =)?Īlso, if there was a power outage, I can rely on the ADT panel backup battery to keep alarm and sensors active, and also be able to deactivate the alarm on the panel during the outage. Other than some small hiccups that Smarthings support help me troubleshoot, its working pretty well now. I have to wait 3 minutes after Arming the panel for me to trigger the alarm. Because my ADT panel is within the motion detector range, I was triggering the motion detector before doing Arm Away, so it was always on cooldown when try to Arm the panel. Apparently, the motion detector has a 3 minute cool down before the motion detector can be triggered again. I also ran into the problem with testing the ADT panel alarm and trying to trigger the motion detector. If they aren’t connected properly, you will need to learn how to do a master reset on the ADT Panel (I learn it the hard way after I connected everything). Once all the ADT sensors are all connected, it should be all good. There was some issues on connecting to one of the ADT sensors at the beginning correctly, so I strongly recommend getting the ADT sensors all connected first before you add any Z wave, Zigbee or connect to like a Philip Hue Bridge or anything. Also, the panel cannot change from Fahrenheit to Celsius(Just the panel, the app itself can still show Celsius).ģx Z wave thermostat (electric baseboard ones) I live in Canada, so I only use it as self monitoring. Hi, I just want to give my quick review on the ADT hub after using it for half a year now. the Smartthings leak detector is available in the UK there are no smart water shutoff valves like this. Sadly we are also still being neglected by manufacturers in that whilst e.g. leak detectors and offering discounts on policies. There is some very faint glimmerings of improvement, some UK insurance companies (maybe two firms) are now starting to recognise the benefits of smart home monitoring systems e.g. I have been looking for a decent smart home / alarm system for nearly two years now. I think this is some new definition of smart I have not come across before The ‘best’ ADT offering I have found is. Typical ADT UK offering - traditional dumb alarm system, so dumb it has not yet learnt how to bang rocks together let alone make a fire. To add a tiny bit of fairness it could be that ADT UK may use different brand names for similar stuff. You can even create zones by loading the app multiple times with different sets of sensors.įor what its worth here is the state of play in the UK. It will send out notification, turn on and off the siren/strobe if you have one, flash lights. Now with this new smart app it will enable him to use everything he had deployed with SHM and allow them to trigger unmonitored alarms based on the ADT alarm status. When he gets home he realizes that it works fine with his 2 contact sensors and 1 motion sensor in the package, but his z-wave sensors aren’t talking to the alarm side. So he goes out and gets the ADT Smartthings panel from Best Buy for a full blown alarm. He is tired off fighting with some of the quirks of SHM and its partial attempt at functionality. Joe has been using smartthings with SHM for a year and has everything monitored with standard z-wave sensors. It doesn’t really help if you want everything to be monitored by ADT, but if you have a bunch of sensors before getting the ADT panel this will allow you to use them the same way you could before the ADT panel in a self monitored way, but base the trigger of an alert on weather the real alarm is armed. The new app allows you to setup a selection of sensors to monitor and send out self monitored alerts of activity if something is triggered while the ADT system is alarmed and by which armed state it is in. Put the new smart app will allow you to use non ADT sensors with the ADT alarm system.
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