the devices they send you are not locked, the only thing that requires “their” hub is the camera.
The hub they send is a normal ST wifi hub, I am unsure once everything is up and running whether I can disconnect their hub and the camera would still work.
Everything that they have sent connected to my V3 hub, as I said the only reason I needed their hub was to get the camera connected, even once it was added it went into the V3 hub.
I am going to test removing their hub a little later once I am sure everything is working with it connected.
There have been multiple reports in the forum from people who bought the Vodafone version of the hub as a used item that said they were unable to activate that hub itself without a Vodafone account. I think they all ended up just buying a new hub. But the end devices don’t seem to be locked.
(BTW, they could be physically identical models, but since the serial numbers have to be registered with the cloud to work, it could just be a matter of Samsung setting aside a block of serial numbers for Vodafone’s use. No way to tell until someone proves different.)
I have seen the reports, I have now tested all my devices with the VF hub turned off and they all work, my only concern is that the VF reporting might not now work, however I cannot see how that would be the case. But you never know. I guess the only way to test this would be to trigger the alarm and wait to see if VF contact me neighbours will love me.
In terms of activating the hub, that is probably the case as I needed to activate it in the VF V app, however now that it is activated I would guess that it can be used by anyone, not that I am going to sell it or pass it to anyone as its quite a cool little wifi mesh router, if I ever need to extend my wifi signal anywhere it’ll be quite useful. Ill be keeping a hold of it for later use if required.
Hi, I am in the UK and following your thread as I want an alarm system thats smart and I too can’t find anything. Putting the remote monitoring and simm backup aside could I just buy a siren, sensors, a camera and set automations in the app instead of relying on a package?
Hi, there is a conversion kit now available on the UK eBay site for less than £40 which now allows you to connect to Smartthings or Home Assistant and does the same job as Konnected. It works with any legacy wired alarm system commonly installed in the UK and I have used it for over 3 years without any issues.
neighbours will love me.
