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Sad to say I’m not impressed with adt. For as much as you pay every month for their services you would think it would be better. When I first got the system activated I was told by the person who came out that I could set the cameras up to only record if the panel was armed took me months after starting the service in my name to realize they won’t record being set up that way, called customer service and no one had a clue what I was talking about or even how to fix the problem so my cameras have to stay active at all times and you only get 6,000 clips a month. Moved into this house with the system already set up and active in previous owners name and I still had to pay money to have it installed (which was already done) and money to activate (which was already active).You can’t just switch it into your name guess they need the money. I can’t watch any of the videos from the cameras on my phone without first restarting my phone, and that’s very annoying. I get notifications 3 hours after something triggered one of the cameras. Also I’ve been able to enter my house a few times without the alarm panel going off, that doesn’t give me and my family a piece of mind. Unfortunately I’m stuck with the service for another 2 years. Wish I would have done my research before taking over the contract of the previous home owners.

My front and backyard camera notifications are about 2 minutes delayed. That is, there are two whole minutes from the time there is a camera detection and the time I get an app notification about it. That is unacceptable. The whole point of having cameras with a detection system is to get notified in a timely manner. Customer stated the 2 minute delay is normal because that’s how long it takes to upload the 30 second video that gets recorded when there’s a camera detection. So the notification is not sent until 2 minutes later when the video is finished uploading to the cloud. If that is the case, then the app engineers need to include a separate notification, independent from the video upload notification, that is sent out as soon as the camera detection is triggered. Then a second notification with the available 30 second recording can be sent out. In two minutes, someone could walk from the front of my house to my backyard and break into the master bedroom without me having any idea about it. This should be a pretty simple but significant fix that can be rolled out in an update. Ring is able to do it so I don’t see why ADT control shouldn’t. I’ll revise my rating if this issue is fixed.

Dear whoever responds to these. I’ve already called and emailed so don’t leave a blanket response to this. I got this installed last October and it was working fine. Videos were recording, I could access them and watch them. Things have been quiet so I wasn’t worried. Until I went out of town for 6 weeks. My neighbor called and said that some decorations have been stolen off of our patio. No problem I have ADT Control. I go in and nothing has recorded since December and my camera in my backyard isn’t even working. I called and there was some things at home I had to physically do to get my system reset. 2 weeks later I go home and have to physically unplug the camera and do a reset of the system from my control panel. These aren’t app problems except I had no idea any of these things were a problem until I checked. If my camera is down, I need to know. Also why did I stop recording? You apparently have to go in and create rules for recording but in my app the area where I create a new rule is “greyed our” like the button is there but I can’t click it. Why is it so hard for me to control things on my ADT Control APP? Also the lady I talked to in customer service was wonderful. No complaints there.