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Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Kiddie smart and standard smoke alarms (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by LongjumpingExplorer1@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
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I need in install 6 smoke alarms in my house addition. 2 bedrooms and 1 hallway upstairs, 1 bedroom and 1 hallway downstairs, and 1 basement near the oil boiler. I’d also like to connect these to 5 other alarms on the old side of my house where there are currently only battery powered alarms. I’d like to be able to get alerts on my phone if I’m not home. So far I have a mishmash of smart products such as Lutron Caseta switches, Wyze plugs, and lorex cameras so eventually I will have to get home assistant or something to integrate everything into apple HomeKit.

I feel something like google nest protect will get silly expensive. I’m wondering if I can just get all standard kiddie hardwired alarms and only smart kiddie alarm to get notified if any alarm gets triggered?

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[–] ankole_watusi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

https://www.kidde.com/home-safety/en/us/homesafe-collection/

These are “interconnected” using RF which is now acceptable by code at least it’s when I checked with San Diego Fire Marshall. But YMMV. SD has interconnect (only within each apartment) and dual-power requirement in high-rise dwellings.

If there’s an interconnect dongle for old hardwire-connect detectors, you’d find it on/linked from above link.

They all have a 10 year mandated lifetime anyway. Maybe just replace all now?

[–] forcedfx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If they're all inter-connected I don't see why you would need more than one. I ended up using an adapter made by Kiddie that senses the 9VDC alarm interconnect and triggers a relay.

[–] ankole_watusi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Getting notified is nice.

Getting the FD notified is nicer.

[–] PeteZappardi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Don't know if it fits your needs/setup, but I have one of these and it works with my Kidde smoke detectors (these)

Basically just a widget listens for a standard smoke/CO2 alarm sounds, so it doesn't have to be "in the loop" with your detectors.

That said, my smoke detectors do have the wireless interconnect, so if one goes off, they all go off, so I didn't have to worry about where to put the audio detector, just stuck it next to one of the smoke detectors.

[–] Ambitious_Parfait385@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is a much needed product however I feel the cloud is a issue and dependency for home automation systems. This should have a REST library in order to have localized queries and other notifications \ actions to occur. I use Hubitat and others use Home Assistant to do this today. Somebody in the PLM world needs to know the cloud dependency is not the end all answer. Give me a local API I'll write you a driver!