Good morning, I have several installer customers who are used to other brands of video door phones. In those systems, for a building, they can create a LAN disconnected from the internet and then each tenant, if they want to have the app, matches the monitor to their wifi and everything works.
For Akuvox, all devices must be in the cloud and therefore connected to the internet.
Except that: 1) in a building nobody offers to give their internet to the whole system and 2) providing a new dedicated shared internet line for the video door phone system is a cost.
Is there any solution I am missing?
Can you not give internet to the Door Phone but only give it to the monitors and be able to receive calls on the SmartPlus app?
In some of the projects we supply across the UK, we have suggested that the intercom is put on a dedicated connection and all Indoor Monitors are connected to the apartment internet connection via WiFi or router connection.
This does mean that the Indoor Monitors then rely on the network of the client and opens up to more possible issues like internet speed, connectivity and essentially gives more point of failure.
Good morning CIE_Ash, thank you for your reply.
But I can already imagine a smart tenant unplugging the monitor cable and putting it in his own switch.... and has free internet in the house. LOL.
For such scenario,
Connect all the devices (wired) through network switch. For initial configuration, share internet to the network switch and configure all the devices. After all the configuration, now you can disconnect the internet.
Attachment: 11You have to Login for download or view attachment(s). No Account? Register
Suggest the use of vfone instead of SmartPlus and register it as an extension on the door intercom unit such as the R29 series. Most features of the SmartPlus would be lost and although I haven't tested I would doubt that it would work successfully. Door release DTMF would be an issue for a start.
Caution using WiFi as service is only as good as the all over building WiFi. including those on different LANs.
Remember
1. Channels within any single WiFi point cross each other.
2. Many WifI points in the same building cross over each other frequency bands.
The above two points creates issues with WiFi bandwidth availability and therefore diminish the service available.
We always push the use of one hardwired internal tenant station as proof of service.
