01-15-2017, 03:09 PM
I picked this up to try and get alerts when our garage door is left open: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://amzn.to/2jlPXHo">http://amzn.to/2jlPXHo</a><!-- m -->
I assumed that because it's z-wave and says "sensor" that it would work like a sensor. Turns out that z-wave devices really only act as the y in "if x, then y" scenarios. True sensors like doors and glass break can trigger events such as notifications and z-wave products turning on, but the z-wave themselves are passive. This means I have no way I seeing in the app that the garage door sensor is "on" and I cannot be notified if it's left open.
I called Frontpoint and confirmed it's unsupported... and not in that "unsupported but still works" way like all my other devices. I'm going to return it and replace it with Frontpoint's approved garage door sensor (NOT controller, just sensor). I went off-brand to try and save $20, but it didn't work. Oh well.
P.S. - I asked the FP agent if they'd wave shipping given the amount of crap I've purchased from them; he agreed with no fight.
I assumed that because it's z-wave and says "sensor" that it would work like a sensor. Turns out that z-wave devices really only act as the y in "if x, then y" scenarios. True sensors like doors and glass break can trigger events such as notifications and z-wave products turning on, but the z-wave themselves are passive. This means I have no way I seeing in the app that the garage door sensor is "on" and I cannot be notified if it's left open.
I called Frontpoint and confirmed it's unsupported... and not in that "unsupported but still works" way like all my other devices. I'm going to return it and replace it with Frontpoint's approved garage door sensor (NOT controller, just sensor). I went off-brand to try and save $20, but it didn't work. Oh well.
P.S. - I asked the FP agent if they'd wave shipping given the amount of crap I've purchased from them; he agreed with no fight.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth