Just save your money
First things first: Their panel is built on a very outdated version of Android. So latency is a huge issue here. Not to mention the UI is a huge struggle to work with.
Setting up the system was extremely easy. I set it up, tested it, and everything worked fine. The prompts say "if you don't get a call in five minutes to at..."
I waited the five minutes no call. So I got on the chat with a CS and explained I had set everything up successfully, but I just needed my credentials for the Cove Connect App. Rather than read my message they tell me to go through an entire Restart Wizard that bricks the panel. The panel will now no longer connect to WiFi or their Hub.
They suggested moving closer to the hub. Weird since where I was sitting I was getting full bars of WiFi, and it was set up perfectly fine initially and didn't move the panel. I move to about 4ft from the hub. Still no dice.
Now, there's no discernable way to do a hard restart on the panel, and the UI is so poorly designed there's no discernable way to force a hard restart when the screen is frozen for 45 minutes on "Trying to connect to the hub." So I couldn't restart the panel, and couldn't proceed.
I call CS now for a refund. "Oh, I hear the system is too complicated for you." I am a dev. I work in tech. It's not complicated. The system is entirely easy to use. Your software is running the same OS as an outdated Nook, and if it can't connect on the first day and is essentially bricked I can't trust you to guard my house at a later date.
August 30, 2024
Unprompted review