You could go crazy lol, buy an “extra” detector and hook it up somewhere within reach or if you really want to mess around with it, crack the extra one open and figure out a way to hookup a relay to the silence button using an esp8266 and something like esphome/tasmota then you can silence from HA.
Of course you would need the ability to run wires, which is/was easy for me in my basement since I have a drop ceiling.
Very interesting… of course I’ve already taken the plunge and said ‘screw it I’m going with nest protect’.
Curious - can’t seem to find - do these have a ‘remote silence’ feature? If not thats a deal breaker for me anyways. My ceilings are pretty high, and I can’t be pulling out a ladder to silence a nuisance alarm….
I have one of the First Alert Smoke/CO detectors, using z-wave aeotec dongle and it works well. I have a few automations set up in Node Red such as phone app notifications and all house lights on when it alarms. I think I found the information such as the sensors and attributes to use on this forum. I have found the battery reporting to be strange, the low battery chirp started when the battery reported 77%. The Smoke and CO alarms are reported in the HA sensor differently so you can tell which alarm type it is.
Any chance anyone knows of movement on an integration? Looking to change my existing Kidde detectors to the smart ones, and would love to have it integrated with HA.
Even if this can be integrated, it would be a cloud based integration subject to change at the whims of the manufacturer, and could even be shutoff at anytime.
I would not rely on an online integration using an API for something as critical as a smoke alarm activating. Actually, I wouldn’t rely on cloud based integrations for anything anymore as I’ve been burned too many times by them failing.
Instead, you might want to look at this option to make your existing detectors smart and use Zwave, an entirely local and standard protocol. If they are wired and interconnected you would only need one relay and can keep your existing detectors.
That does appear to be a good solution if you’re only looking for a binary sensor. If you’re looking for supplement attributes (replacement, faults, etc.), and methods (triggering tests, sending a hush command, etc.), then you’re back to the API for now.
Update- I don’t currently see it on Amazon, but it is available on the ring website. Since it’s zwave, it doesn’t need the ring hub and would work with a zstick running zwavejs
That looks nice - and would get rid of the stupid Ring listening thing that never seems to work. I’m assuming no remote shutting it up if there is a false alarm? My broomstick and vaulted ceiling routine is getting old
Oh - that is not happening - I am not an “open it up and solder something on to it” type of guy . - Just bought the Aeotec Z-Stick 7 USB stick (ZWA010) instead and will call it a day.
I believe someone said a powered usb hub between the rpi4 and zstick gen5 would work to solve the issue as well instead of soldering, but it’s an odd problem for sure. Something about power draw specs being off.
I hear you on the vaulted ceiling thing. Some of mine are over 20 ft up… absolutely no way to reach in the event of a nuisance alarm…. (I went with the nest protects)
Does anybody have experience with the Google Nest Protect V2? Some google search hits didn’t made me clear how well this is supported bij HAS?
I currently have non-smart smoke detectors, the HAGER TG501A powered with 230V and a backup battery and linked together but they are not very reliable.
So for me a 230V powered solution (with optional backup battery) would be preferred because the power is already available (just replacing the current Hager ones). But if there is a better option out there with accu then that’s fine.
Requirments:
Smoke detection
Heat detection is preferred (probably more reliable then only smoke?)
Carbon Monoxide detection is not mandatory (within a few months I will no longer use natural gas and my natural gas connection will be eliminated).
Serine somehow (speaker with warning voice is also OK) linked
@roelos the only downside of Nest Protect is that it is communicating via the cloud, and that there is no local API. If you have the wired Nest Protect (230V), the integrated occupancy sensor will be exposed to HA as well. The only downside is that it will stay ‘triggered’ for 10 minutes after first motion, which is an API limitation.
. - Just bought the Aeotec Z-Stick 7 USB stick (ZWA010) instead and will call it a day.