I see a lot of HA users using the Ring Keypad to arm/disarm their alarm over Z-Wave. I’m suspicious of Amazon, probably overly so. I just tore out a Ring doorbell. Having said that, if this thing can work entirely free of cloud dependencies, it may still work for me.
Can the ring keypad phone home or exfiltrate telemetry data about my network? Does it connect to this Amazon sidewalk network they’ve created?
I don’t want to give Amazon any window into my home.
Wouldn’t it need an Internet connection, Wi-Fi or wired, to communicate with Amazon?
Mine just say they have Z-wave. They don’t say anything about having a MAC address like internet connected devices usually do.
No, if they truly can connect to the Amazon sidewalk network, then they would connect to somebody else’s Alexa, which would then send the data onto Amazon over the internet.
Is there an Alexa device that supports Z-wave?
https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/blogs/the-smartest-blog/how-to-connect-alexa-to-a-z-wave-smart-home-hub