Is anyone aware of Matter (thread) smoke alarms available on the market?
The only thing I have found is this:
But this seems more like an announcement, it doesn’t seem to be available yet.
I usually check this list, which seems pretty up to date, but don’t see anything yet. You can also search the CSA’s Matter certification database, but those products aren’t necessarily shipping yet.
In addition to the Heiman announcement, I searched for the Siterwell part number and again found nothing but press releases. The Nordic semi (HooRii) product is just a module for manufacturers to use and I couldn’t find anything using it. It might be a while still.
That said, my personal recommendation is to think twice about smart smoke detectors. Since availability is limited, there may not be a model that meets all your local regulatory requirements. Also I’m reading posts every day about flaky Thread devices, so I’m not convinced it’s trustworthy enough for life-saving alarms yet. I made my dumb interconnected (wired) detectors “smart” by hooking the manufacturer’s relay device to a z-wave sensor which alerts me when any alarm goes off. It’s not critical to operations, but nice to have if there’s an issue when I’m away.
Hi Peter,
Thank you for your feedback.
I guess we’ll have to wait some more.
And I agree, whatever smoke detector you buy should be compliant with local regulations. About Thread-issues: I don’t experience them personally, but I can imagine that a smoke detector that is just being released could have some of those issues, indeed.
There seems to be a Matter smoke detector available from this German site:
I think I’m going to wait. I wanted to buy just one to try, but the delivery costs (14€) are quite high.
Agreed that we should not rely on smarthome devices for life-saving purposes, but ‘smart’ smoke alarms make an alarm locally, with smart-information and notifications sent as a secondary action. I have 9 smart smoke alarms and perhaps the biggest ‘smart’ benefits are seeing battery level and finding the one that is chirping in the night because I forgot to look at a smart-app to see what the battery level was before it ran too low!