Ecolink Firefighter in Home Monitor?

I have added an Ecolink Firefighter to listen to my smoke detectors. The device added just fine as a generic zwave device, but I can’t figure out how to make it show up in Home Monitor as a smoke detector. I am using Noonlight monitoring so would like Home monitor to also report a smoke alarm to Noonlight as well. help?

I believe you need to use a custom device handler - the device type should be “Ecolink Firefighter”. The instructions/website to find the code is in the manual that comes with the device.

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Thanks. I got it. I was apparently logged into some random older samsung account when I installed the device handler… All better now. Thanks.

Out of curiosity, do these “listening” detectors have to be specifically near a combo smoke/co alarm if you interlink a mix of combo and regular smoke alarms? If you have a mix of hardwired smoke and smoke/co detectors, do they all go off when carbon monoxide is detected?

In the United States, there are two different tone patterns mandated by code for a residential smoke alarm versus a carbon monoxide alarm.

https://support.firstalert.com/s/article/difference-between-smoke-and-CO-alarm-sounds

The acoustic listeners are listening for both patterns and then they will report which one they hear.

So if you want it to report on carbon monoxide, it has to be within hearing range of a device which will make the carbon monoxide alarm sound.

And all the listener does is report to the hub that it has heard the sound. Whatever you want to have happen next is limited by what you can do with smartthings. The listener itself is not interlinked with the actual detectors.

https://www.amazon.com/Ecolink-Wireless-Detector-existing-FF-ZWAVE5-ECO/dp/B071Z8NM8N/ref=asc_df_B071Z8NM8N/

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Makes sense. I figured it would need to be near the combo detector given the proximity to both tones.

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