The first review says "make sure you have power, and a phone line close to where your sensor is". Isn't it wireless between sensor and dialer?
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That part of the first review is not correct. The phone line only has to be near the dialer. Once you connect the phone line and power line to the dialer, the battery operated sensers communicate wirelessly with the dialer. But you must have a landline. And the batteries on all devices need to be changed every so often.
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Yes, it is wireless between sensor and dialer. You need battery power for the sensor. The dialer needs ac and a phone line near it.
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Sensor is battery powered, when tripped it sends wireless signal to dialer then it will call what number you program so the dialer needs to be wired to phone jack and needs to be plugged in to house 110 ac
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Yes, but the closer they are the better the connection, like a cell phone and a cell tower.
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Yes, my sensor is 25 ft from the dialer/phone and on a different floor. Synched fine. My sensor is battery powered.
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The signal sent from the water sensor to the dialer is WIRELESS. The sensor is powered by a replaceable battery, no electricity is required. The dialer requires a 110V AC outlet for long term power. It does have a battery in case of a power failure. The dialer needs a standard land line to make the calls. The sensor can be placed up to 80 feet from the telephone dialer, although some metal walls or other interference may reduce that somewhat.
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These are battery powered remotes that both sound off when they sense water AND send a wireless signal to a dialing unit, which can indeed be in a different room. The dialing unit must be plugged into the home phone. It can then dial a series of phones (other than your home phone, since it is using that line), and give you an alert over the phone. We have it calling two cells and two work phones. Any questions: write me at Indybroughton@yahoo.com
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If you have placed mulitiple sensors in different rooms on the same landline, then it should work fine. As the intruder entered into different rooms and triggered the alarm, it should call you and then there should be enough delay before the intruder entered another room to again trigger the alarm and call you. If you had placed the sensors in the same room then there could be a problem where the units tried to call at the same time and might conflict with each other.
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HiIf you already bought one of the iSmartAlarm packages the next step is to configure the system. All the necessary is included.If you only bought the sensor it is mandatory to acquire at least the prefe
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Seriously, this sensor works only part of the time 5 feet or 100 feet away. I strongly suggest you use a reliable solution for anything that is important. It will false alarm, or lose track of the sensor or not alarm when it should. Then sometimes it works fine. I have 2 base units and 4 different sensors. None work reliably.
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No, only connects through Bluetooth. You have to be within about 60ft of the sensor.
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I freak out and cuss! Even though it shouldn't be, this item seems to be a line-of-sight kind of thing rather than like a 2.4GHz wireless home telephone. Getting it back into line-of-sight might obviate the need to swear. c
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No, it is just a telephone. It was connected to my landline at first. Now it is connected to my FIOS service.
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There should have been 2 cords with phone. One of the cords will give dial tone on 1st line. Other cord will give dial tone on both phone lines. And not to be silly...you do need a working phone connection.
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We have ours dialing a Vonage unit to a cellphone bypassing answering machine. I wonder why you would send a water alert to an answering machine? Idea is to stop the water before real damage occurs not listen to an untimely message.
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It may be out of range, Low battery, or needs to be connected to the Base Station.
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I may be doing something wrong but I can't even see the device inside the house if I get far away from it. It appears to me that the location displayed is the location where the Trackr was last in range of the phone. For me it is almost worthless other than finding the phone in the garage or some distant room in the house.
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The sensor is located inside the unit so location is important. I placed mine in the same opening as the original detector. It should be as close to the floor as possible since propane is heavier then air.
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No, it only alerts the system. You can connect an alarm to a controlled outlet and switch it on automatically when the contact is opened or the sensor is moved
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as far as i know this contact is for wired alarm systems only. my system uses both wired and wireless contacts.
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yes ,this system is a alarm with a basic dialer,just install your number (s) you want called. its a great system easy to set up I use it for water notification in basement.
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The alarm needs to be connected to a regular land line jack (RJ11), not wireless, not ethernet. So, if you have VoIP and you can plug a regular telephone into the jack (such as Ooma, MagicJack, and most cable company VoIP) then you should be OK. But again, the alarm needs to be plugged into the telephone jack on whatever your VoIP device is.