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Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Xfinity Home Sensor has not worked for years...

For the many times I have called xfinity home THROUGH THE YEARS to tell them my window sensor WILL NOT acknowledge any new battery, ever, they told me they would ship me a new sensor.  Now, 2 years later, still waiting on that sensor. Having been on the phone for over an hour today for a camera issue TODAY, the agent tells me I am out of warranty for a $20 sensor and I respond, of course it is out of warranty now.  I asked him to look at my initial calls a few years ago and he acknowledged my issue was noted with that same sensor.  Nowhere does it say I declined the service of sending me a sensor back then and there was never a mention of a fee back then.  But now you all want to charge me for it?? I ask WHY since I have been paying for a service that has not fully been functional and when I call, I have to personally spend more that $20 worth of my time to simply connect with a live person to explain the same issue over and over again.  Why isn't there any FOLLOW THROUGH with Xfinity Home customer service representatives.  They did not ever follow through for my issue. The sensor was never sent to me, that is not my fault at all.  I pay a monthly fee so to credit me for a non-functional service only seems fair.  And then send me a sensor that works please!!

I went through the whole conversation with a Supervisor, that is not in the US, of course, and when he did give me the option of getting a tech out here to see what the issue is, I asked if there is a cost, he said if the device is broken in some why I would have to pay--which is understood. I know it is not broken at all since all I do is try to change out the battery but it still will not acknowledge it.  Now, a tech is only available 3-5pm on certain days and can only schedule until 10/24.  I am an only parent to a child and taking care of my 80 year old mother, barely having time to be at this home because I am driving everyone everywhere PLUS working a full time job----I get that time is very limited AND quite VALUABLE, but I see that Xfinity Home Service or Xfinity, as a whole, values only their time and not their customers time. This I find quite frustrating. I am available to be here until 10am for a simple sticker to be removed from a window and be replaced. Nothing is available until 3pm which I can never do because I am in downtown driving in to pick up my daughter from school and do not get home until 5pm, if we do not have after school acitivities. As I said, limited time trying to keep a roof over our heads with a security system which I pay montly that Xfinity is not willing to provide full support for here and replace a simple SENSOR by mailing it to me with no charge after being a customer for over 20+ years, 5 years with this security system.  What is happening and can someone please just send me a sensor for a WINDOW???

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6 days ago

Hello user_jrvg6k. Thank you so much for sharing this experience with us here on our Xfinity Forums and for brining the ongoing lack of support to our attention. I am terribly sorry to read of the interactions you have had when simply trying to receive help with your services. I have had our home security for several years now and have some across some hiccups with the devices. Usually it's an easy fix, but I have needed a repair visit for my cameras before and trying to find time to schedule anything as a mom and care taker is extremely difficult. I truly appreciate you being with us for so many years and I don't want all that time with us to be tarnished by a window sensor. 

I would love the opportunity to help, I will work to find a better schedule for us or send you a new sensor. We can start with sending a sensor and if there's still an issue work on a repair visit. I promise I will help make sure we have your service fully functional and your home secure. 

Can you please send us a direct message with your name and service address? From there we will have to verify the account, but from there we can access the options we need to have this corrected. 

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I have already responded last week with my address and name.

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