My Nest Protect smoke alarms are hitting their 10 year EOL dates and since the product is discontinued, I was looking for an alternative that was approved for use in Australia.
I thought I’d try the Clipsal Wiser Smoke Alarms (CLP599WSA for the wired 240V version and CLP599WSAL for the wireless battery powered version) but there wasn’t much written up on them so here is a short review.
Pros:
Very easy to pair - just press the pairing button 3 times and it just turns up in Home Assistant with the native Zigbee integration.
You can mix the wired and wireless versions, but you select one of them as the Primary (they provide a little sticker to label the Primary one). The Primary can be a wired or wireless one. Set up the primary device first.
They connect with each other both with Zigbee and 433 Mhz RF. This makes them compatible with the Clipsal 755WSA, 755LPSMA4 and 755RFB2.
The wired version is also compatible with 755WSA, 755PSMA4, 755RLPSMA4, 755PFM54 wired devices.
The Clipsal Wiser Hub is not required
Battery doesn’t need replacement and lasts the life of the device
“Power Source” information in HA is not correct for wired device on Mains power (just shows “Battery or Unknown”)
The Configuration and Diagnostic items in the HA screen are “read only” so those configuration items don’t do anything, nor does the Identify button do anything.
These are quite pricey and compared to the Nest Protect are very simple devices. There is no carbon monoxide detection, no voice notification, no warning before smoke reaches a higher level, etc. It’s basically a normal smoke detector with a Zigbee switch for Smoke.
The Temperature sensor reading is not updated frequently enough to be useful. It’s mostly just stuck on a single value.
If anyone out there knows of how to make more sophisticated use of this, write it in the replies.
Photo of box for those who are interested. The wired version is a larger device than the wireless version. Otherwise the contents of the box are the same and the instructions for use are the same.
Whatever version they came with. I don’t have the Wiser Hub so can’t update the firmware and I don’t think the firmware for the lithium devices has ever been made available via the Z2M firmware respository.
Did you ever get the temperature sensor performance to improve?
I wanted to get the 240v wired version and use their temp sensor to inform my home’s climate control system… and these would be nicely dispersed throughout the house and provide a good sense of zones/temps.
Any chance the wired version temp sensor was more responsive than the battery version?
It just needs to be accurate and responsive enough for that. It’s not a full blown datalogger.
Assuming you mount these correctly you will be measuring the temperature at ceiling height. You are better off measuring at the middle of the room. There are many cheap zigbee sensors that can do this.
That was what I was afeaid of. Ones I have now are 20 years, replaceable batteries and tested with smoke can, still functional. But not integrated at all…
