Smartthings integration with Ring Alarm

[Jbeach3 (James Beach)]

I have a Samsung Connect Home mesh network (which includes Smartthings repeaters at each hub) in my home. I also have quite a few Z-Wave devices spread throughout my house on that network. I recently bought the Ring Alarm, which appears to includes its own Z-Wave hub. I have a few questions with this configuration:

• I understand that one Z-Wave device can’t be on multiple networks. Can the Z-Wave devices on my existing network still serve as repeaters for the devices on the other network? Does having two “competing” Z-Wave hubs cause interference?

• I have devices like the First Alert ZCOMBO and Schlage Connect door locks on the current network and have interactions like ITTT configured. I believe these devices are interoperable with the Ring Alarm and can be used to generate fire / intrusion alarms as fully compatible with Ring’s system.

  • If I move these devices over to Ring’s Z-Wave network, do I lose the ability to configure ITTT rules since Ring Alarm currently doesn’t support ITTT (and may never add it.)
  • For example, can I still trigger location-based actions by having the network detect the presence of my smartphone and lock / unlock the door?

[sidjohn1]

@Jbeach3

Can the Z-Wave devices on my existing network still serve as repeaters for the devices on the other network?

No, they have to be joined to the network to repeat for it

@Jbeach3

Does having two “competing” Z-Wave hubs cause interference?

It’s not guarantied, it depends on how busy each are and how far away they are from each other… so it is possible.

You may also want to check out:

Ring Alarm released! (Integration project in post 13)

I have recently switched to Ring Alarm from SimliSafe. Ever since i switched, I missed the ST integration, and I decided to create one. I have created a custom device and app for integrating ST with Ring Alarm. The integration is using a bridge application as Ring Alarm uses WebSockets for communication and ST does not support that. You can check the integration here https://github.com/asishrs/smartthings-ringalarm. Deploying the bridge Lambda in AWS might incur some charges, per my calculation it is less than $1.

[CTMaineah (Cory LaFountaine)]

I’m looking over all of this and going to give it a shot. My question does this need a local PC or Mac to run on or is it all web based. It looks like you have to install some software.