Help: How Managing many logins/access to certain devices in multiple rental units?

[JDRoberts]

@mmaldonado

Often these things come down to tiny details in the set up, so let me ask a couple of questions

A) Is there one shared Wi-Fi network for the entire complex? Or is each ring doorbell on its own separate Wi-Fi network?

B) I’m a little confused about how the gate and the doorbells are going to work together as far as how the people use them. Are the doorbells (and their cameras) on the street side of the gate, all together? So that a person standing in front of one camera would theoretically be seen by all them, and then one of the tenants would recognize the person and unlock the common gate?

In a traditional apartment complex, the doorbells are on the street side of the gate like so:

And only the tenant whose button is pushed would be notified that someone is waiting to come in through the gate.

Ring doorbells would work quite differently because each doorbell would recognize motion so all the tenants would get notified when anyone arrived.

Or is the doorbell on each separate unit viewing only that unit’s front door, in which case I don’t understand how it is planned to work with the common gate Since I assume the person would have already come through the gate before they got into range of the doorbell’s camera.

C) Do you have to have a lock that has a keypad on it? That’s often a requirement For commercial setups to allow for visitors who need to be given a code to get in but who might not have a smart phone.

@jrivera

If the zwave lock and hub is in the common “location” And there is one ring pro doorbell in each of the three tenant locations, then…

1. How will the ring pro doorbell for unit one be used to trigger the zwave lock at the common location?

2. If all three units are on a common Wi-Fi network, doesn’t superlan connect discover all three doorbells and display them for each location? Last time I checked it did this for the Phillips hue bridge and the harmony hub, because it didn’t parse out Wi-Fi devices to the sub accounts. Has that changed?

Warning: new lan discovery feature in 2.3 (thread closed by ST)

All, there is a new “feature” in the latest mobile app version 2.3. It is not stated up front, but this new lan discovery automatically adds all discovered devices without the ability to exclude them. Even after you manually remove something it discovers, simply going back into add a device will add it back in. Why is this an issue? Well, smartthings logs everything immediately and you may not be aware a device it quietly added in the background is now logging all its usage to the cloud without your knowledge. This should be made much more clear to end users and should allow you to add the devices or exclude them, instead they opted to add them all automatically. Just my two cents.

All of which is to say mixing Wi-Fi devices like the ring pro and Z wave devices like the hypothetical lock seems to me to complicate the management of sub accounts. But maybe I’m not up-to-date on this.