Ancestors

Written by Jakob Rosin on 2024-10-13 at 15:32

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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Toot

Written by Patrick Perdue on 2024-10-13 at 15:40

@jakobrosin The theory is great. In practice, I can see a million and twelve things going wrong.

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Descendants

Written by Patrick Perdue on 2024-10-13 at 15:44

@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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Written by Jakob Rosin on 2024-10-13 at 15:47

@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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Written by Patrick Perdue on 2024-10-13 at 15:48

@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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Written by Jakob Rosin on 2024-10-13 at 15:49

@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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Written by Andrew Hodgson on 2024-10-13 at 19:13

@jakobrosin @BorrisInABox Thanks for the confirmation of this which I just asked you previously.

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