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2 years ago - Tested out 2nd smoke detector. After struggle it finally connected to ring.com without ring complaining.
- At first attempt I saw ring.com detected it but then failured after long time and said something but I don't remember. Since then, factory-reset this device (*1) and re-do on ring.com but ring doesn't detect it.
- I've also tried the other option on ring that does NOT say "2nd get". This went well but then Ring doesn't detect smoke & CO detector, instead it detected a binary sensor without showing any particular info for smoke & CO sensor. So I'm not sure if ring connected to this smoke & CO, or happened to grab a random binary sensor.
- And this binary sensor itself shows "
Critical Configuration Error" even though the detection completed.
- And this binary sensor itself shows "
- Well...then after some more trials, it finally connected. The atttempt made right before the successful detection still failed and suggested retry. This retry is the one that succeeded.
- 1st device is still failing to connect to ring.com.
- I removed it from ring then just to verify its Z-wave capability, I tried to connect this device to another Z-wave gateway I have that uses ZwaveJS-MQTT https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/610. It went well, and Home Assistant was able to monitor the smoke and CO sensor's status realtime. It lets me more visibility about the sensors.
- So I can technically switch to HoA for smoke & CO sensing. However, thing pulling me off is that my HoA is not linked to professional monitoring service so I cannot get support in case of fire detected by these sensors (Related https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/623).
- Then after that, I did factory-reset 1 then let ring.com detect it and it says "Wrong Network". So clearly the sensor keeps info of old z-wave network. My way of Factory-rest 1 doesn't seem to be working here.
- I removed it from ring then just to verify its Z-wave capability, I tried to connect this device to another Z-wave gateway I have that uses ZwaveJS-MQTT https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/610. It went well, and Home Assistant was able to monitor the smoke and CO sensor's status realtime. It lets me more visibility about the sensors.
- Testing 3rd device.
- Same as the 2nd device, first attempt failed, then ring.com app automatically retried and succeeded.
- To prove steps are correct and reproduce success, I removed this device from ring.com, and did factory-reset itself (*1). Then attempted again to connect to ring.com
In summary,
- 2 out of 3 are now functioning with ring.com.
- 1 is waiting for a new usecase, or maybe replace with a new one as the manufacturer agrees.
- I think I'm just hitting flakiness of Z-wave init operation hopefully. Don't give up when an issue occurred once, keep trying and it often works out :/
*1...Instruction isn't clear at all. I found sliding the battery cartridge out, remove batteries and put them back in, press and hold Test button, slid the battery cartridge in, them release Test button.
Cont'd from https://github.com/130s/30y-130s_life/issues/1030 about technical info of connecting First Alert's Z-wave sensor to ring.com. As in https://github.com/130s/30y-130s_life/issues/1030#issuecomment-984109411, the manufacturer agrees to replace the device I'm seeing an issue with, but I went ahead testing 2nd and 3rd devices I have and untested yet.
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