Can Ring Alarm Keypad "Phone Home" via Sidewalk? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by njordomir@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Lyra_Lycan 1 points 5 days ago

it can still function by connecting to nearby open networks, or perhaps even someone just walking by with a phone that it can piggyback off of.

I was worried some corporation would create a product that does this. The best option then would be to trash it.

this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025

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