smoke detector with wifi?

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Anyone happen to know if they make smoke detectors with wifi? I know they make smoke detectors that can interface with an alarm company, so i imagine that a detector with wifi is possible but i havent been able to find any. Ideally you would be able to send an alert if the detector was tripped. Anyone ever heard of anything like this, or better yet know where to get one?

Thanks.
 
I've been curious myself to find smoke detectors that have an alarm point relay on them. Been wanting to monitor my house better. Going to be adding water detectors around the basement too. I have not heard of any wifi ones though.
 
Never heard of a wifi one. Typically the major alarm brands (like DSC) use 433mhz RF for their wireless sensors and contacts (including smoke/CO alarms).

A DSC alarm panel is actually not too expensive, and then you can tie it in with something like the Eyez-on Alarm Module to get internet alerts/dashboard/etc. You can find all these items at www.homesecuritystore.com
 
In addition to DSC sec panels, you can integrate the DSC with automation systems such as Homeseer to manage and alert, you can even run automation scripts if an alert is triggered.

I don't know of any that have wireless alerting yet, but i have a feeling they are coming just like the nest thermostats are getting popular
 
Over here in the UK we have a home automation company called Z-wave who make wireless smoke detectors which sit on the wireless z-wave network.

Haven't bought myself one yet, but plugs into my Raspberry Pi with no issues for controlling sockets etc

Not wifi but when I looked for the same it was the best I could find.
 
nry said:
Over here in the UK we have a home automation company called Z-wave who make wireless smoke detectors which sit on the wireless z-wave network.

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I have been waiting a long for these zwave smoke alarms to hit US markets, sadly they still have not.

I have homeseer and a z-wave network but I don't want to go with DSC security panel, just need the smoke alarms.
 
Just thinking I seem to remember z wave works on two different frequencies one of which was banned in the USA. Might be completely wrong here
 
nry said:
Just thinking I seem to remember z wave works on two different frequencies one of which was banned in the USA. Might be completely wrong here
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Do you happen to know the freq that they use, i'm on 908.42 mhz
 
gangolfus said:
I use Insteon from www.smarthome.com for my home automation. You could achieve your goal using:

Insteon Hub: http://www.smarthome.com/2242-222/INSTEON-Hub/p.aspx
Insteon Smoke Bridge: http://www.smarthome.com/2982-222/INSTEON-Smoke-Bridge/p.aspx
First Alert OneLink Detectors: http://www.smarthome.com/_/ProductResults.aspx?Ntt=onelink
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That's a neat solution.

I will say for very little more you could go with a true alarm panel setup like DSC (you can reduce it down to simply the Panel, Keypad (includes wireless), Internet Bridge, and Wireless Smoke Alarms. The advantage is that it is much more robust and expandable. For something like smoke alarms you want them to be monitored and work all the time.
 
gangolfus said:
I use Insteon from www.smarthome.com for my home automation. You could achieve your goal using:

Insteon Hub: http://www.smarthome.com/2242-222/INSTEON-Hub/p.aspx
Insteon Smoke Bridge: http://www.smarthome.com/2982-222/INSTEON-Smoke-Bridge/p.aspx
First Alert OneLink Detectors: http://www.smarthome.com/_/ProductResults.aspx?Ntt=onelink
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Huh, I can actuall interface this with Homesser via This and a simple plugin, and it will control other X10 and Insteon devices.

I think i found my next project
 
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