Overheard a homeowners association meeting about wireless alarm interference

I was at a HOA meeting last Tuesday in my neighborhood and someone mentioned their alarm system kept going off at 2 AM for no reason. Turned out the neighbor's new wireless security camera was on the same frequency band. Made me think about how we need to check for signal overlap more before we install wireless systems. Has anyone else run into this kind of frequency clash with residential installs?

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walker.andrew16d ago

Man that's a real pain and I've been there. We had a similar mess a few years back with our Ring doorbell and the neighbor just across the street had some cheap wireless camera system that kept tripping each other up. It was a nightmare trying to figure out what was causing it at first because both alarms would go off at random times. What finally worked for us was switching one of the systems to a different channel in the settings menu, I think it was Channel 11 versus Channel 1 on the 2.4 GHz band. Most people don't realize you can do that with the router or the device app itself instead of buying all new gear. Also we just moved the base station a few feet away from the wall and that helped a ton with the interference too. It's one of those things nobody talks about until you're standing outside in your pajamas at 2 AM trying to figure out what's going on.

aaronf4016d ago

Hold up, I don't think the channel thing works quite like that with Ring and wireless cams. Those devices usually auto-select channels and you can't manually change them in the app like a router. Might've been the base station move that actually fixed it.