I swear that smoke alarms have a programmed time when to start alerting for low battery. The tiny, but piercing PIP! every 10 seconds has always started around 2 or 3 AM for me. Anyway, after one started again a few nights ago, I took the little bugger down and replaced it with a smart one, completing the migration to smart smoke alarms in our house. So if smoke would appear, we all get phone notifications and the room name where the alert is is called out on all our sonos speakers at home.
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@jakobrosin The theory is great. In practice, I can see a million and twelve things going wrong.
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@jakobrosin Speaking of fire alarms, I don't suppose there is a single accessible traditional fire alarm panel in existence, is there? If I were building a house, I would want industrial stuff installed. No smart, no internet.
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@BorrisInABox I'm seeing the notifications and alerts as an added bonus, as the sensors themselves do function as a regular dumb file alarm, by activating their on board beeping when smoke is detected.
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@jakobrosin Yeah, until in the middle of the night, they get a firmware update at the same time the beep is supposed to happen.
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@BorrisInABox They don't. They are not connected to the internet, but over Zwave, and i've disabled auto update for them. ALso, the smart circuitry is separate from the actual fire alarm bit.
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@jakobrosin @BorrisInABox Thanks for the confirmation of this which I just asked you previously.
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@jakobrosin So the only thing a vengeful arsonist needs to do to ensure that you don’t get alerted is unplug your Wi-Fi router? Or do they also have an audible alert that goes off independently no matter what? I would hope this is the case, but you never know.
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@tristan Oh, of course, the fire alarm itself functions as a normal one, with an onboard loud beep. This doesn't care anything about connectivity.
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@jakobrosin @tristan ... you hope. My Sonos Roam's physical volume buttons don't work for several minutes if I switch it on without Internet connectivity. The volume buttons! Time to set something on fire to make extra certain a developer didn't put something requiring Internet connectivity in the critical path with a ridiculously long timeout.
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@jscholes @tristan We're not using internet connected sensors, but zWave. Its essentially a radio which in combination of built in alarm sends a signal out to the ether saying "I am on fire." Wether there is something listening or not is not the sensors problem any more.
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@jakobrosin I've thought about going smart with smoke alarms. Do they make their own alarm sound as well?
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@jakobrosin When I was growing up, one would go low everyday I was home alone over night. Also, one in this house picked the first night after I by home from surgery, and I couldn't reach it so my sister had to come and shut it up lol
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