Honestly I wish they would stop selling these things with an option to
use the Internet rather than a phone line...or at least require a
landline phone as a backup for the Internet.
There was a 4 hour outage on a Saturday morning recently caused by a
router failure. Frankly, I'm happy with how quickly we resolved that
given that it was just about the worst failure possible and it happened
on a weekend. But if someone had a problem at that time, and their
health monitoring equipment couldn't phone the mothership to report it I
really don't want that on my head.
-Adam
On 6/24/2019 11:46 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
I have some relatives that are getting elderly and still living on
their own. Landline only (Frontier, so it mostly works), they don't
even have a cell phone. It seems like a lot of devices now are geared
towards the smart home market, where they presume that you have an
internet connection. Other devices are $20 or $30/month for the
monitoring/answering service. There are other family members close
by, so it really just needs a wireless panic button that can make an
outbound call to them. A cordless phone is probably more technical
that can be handled, and I know that it would rarely leave it's base
station. So a pendent/watch is much more preferable.
Just brainstorming, Preferably, dial a list of numbers until someone
answers and confirms via keypress or something.
Does something like that exist?
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