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Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 8:33 PM
Doorbell notification "camera battery low"
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cinziaborgo
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Nowhere in the Simplisafe documentation it says that the USB port is not to be used to run the camera. Which gets me to a separate rant: Simplisafe documentation is truly atrocious. I understand that they target non-technical users and work hard to hide the complexity and make everything look simple, but as soon as you have a question that goes beyond the basics, there's no technical documentation of any sort (no specs, nothing). For example, nowhere on the website or provided documentation I could find what's the acceptable voltage for the camera, and I could find the 8-24VAC only on a third party article. Most other companies do a much better job at having a simple customer facing set of docs or autodiscovery, but then also provide a set of technical docs with more info.
For example, there are no specs on the motion sensor (range, angles, recovery time, etc) or the glass break sensor, which is something pretty much any other wireless alarm company does. How can someone technical know where to properly position the motion sensor with no specs? It's ok if you have a straightforward installation, but in my case I have a narrow curved stairway, and it's really hard to know how to position it to provide the best possible coverage (for what is worth, I installed many other systems, all much better in this respect). There's a lot to like about Simplisafe, but docs are not one of those things
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