Continuing the discussion from Halo Smart Smoke Detector:
I’m wanting to know if I buy a Halo+ from ebay if I will be able to install it on Smart Things using the classic Smart Things app. Will all functions work, especially weather advisories and sms alerts to my cell phone? Thanks for your help!
I don’t have the Halo+ to verify, so I’m not sure about the weather advisories. I have several regular Halos, and I can tell you for sure that SMS alerts will arrive as long as you’ve set up SHM properly to send you alerts when something happens, or any other smartapp that can send messages. I personally use SHM (Classic app).
I have 2 halo+ detectors in ST. They both work including the weather alerts as well as SMS alerts. Within the ST app you can choose which alerts you want. I live in an area prone to Tornados so I set up the alert for Tornado warnings but not Severe T-Storm warnings as I don’t want them going off daily during peak season for storms.
Can you confirm that you paired these with SmartThings AFTER they folded and the code was removed from ST? That seems to be the open discussion around the weather alerts working if someone pairs them now versus prior to them folding.
I paired them prior to folding but had to reconnect one after they folded and both work. I’m ST you can pick which alerts to get just like you could in Halo app.
No code has been removed from ST. The DTH code is there, but we’re not allowed to see it for some reason, even though the version of the code for Iris has been released to open source and is freely available now.
Has anyone had any luck getting SmartThings to push the latest firmware to the Halos. I have 7 Halos in my house and I just realized that 3 of them are still on version 0x260D0027, two are on 0x260D0028 and two of them are on the latest version which I assume is 0x260D0029.
Do they require a power down to pull the latest firmware? Does that mean I need to physically disconnect the plug from the back of the smoke alarm?
I have a support ticket open with Samsung but haven’t gotten very far with them yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks - Mitch
Any update on this? 2 of mine recently started chirping and I read elsewhere that it might be due to firmware. I unplugged them but haven’t had a chance to reconnect yet.
Support told me that they cannot update my Halos. If you look in the SmartThings IDE at the Halo device you should see a current version and a target version. If they match then there is nothing that they can apparently do.
Not sure if I totally believe this though as I have seen community posts where they had pushed out updates to the Halo devices. The latest version that I believe Halo labs had sent them was 0x260D0028.
Mine don’t match which I would think means an update is available, but they just haven’t updated.
If the last two digits are 28 or 29, they are up to date.
I have 2 Halo+ both with weather alerts. One was originally paired on Iris and moved to hubitat when iris closed…weather alerts work great on it.
The other Halo+ was never paired to anything until I added it to ST a few weeks ago.
The weather alerts do NOT work on this Halo…everything else does except humidity shows 5100% all the time.
Is there any way to get weather alerts working on this Halo? I’ve tried all of the weather frequencies channels and it never goes off during bad storms while the other Halo does.
Since it was never paired with Halo app or Iris Lowe’s, will the weather alerts feature never work now?
I have the same issue with humidity levels - I’m actually here searching for a fix. My temperatures are also varying amounts of “way off”.
As far as the weather radio, that is ALL controlled by radio signals, it has nothing to do with Halo itself - you would likely get the exact same behavior with a stand alone weather radio. Where we live, the station frequency that is supposed to be “correct” for our location just sounds like static, and trying any of the others offers no improvement. It is also somewhat inconsistent which halos go off with alerts vs which don’t - I basically turned off all of the alerts beyond the tornado one, so if the thing does go off, we know that has to be what it is for.
@sarahspins I would try contacting support. Do you know what version of firmware you Halo is currently on?
I had a ticket open for about a month and a half and received responses from 3 different individuals saying that they could not update the Halo device firmware. I don’t understand how that’s possible as there are previous posts in the community forums that suggested otherwise.
Hopefully you get a different response. If you are able to get someone from SmartThings to update the devices please report back here.
The firmware can only be updated by SmartThings to version 0x26090028. This is the most recent version that Halo provided SmartThings.
There are at least two newer firmware version that Halo shipped devices with (0x260D0027 and 0x260D0029) but neither of these versions were provided to SmartThings so there isn’t a way for SmartThings to provide an update to those firmware versions.
@Brad_ST On my 7 halos I have 3 different firmware versions:
0x260D0027
0x260D0028
0x260D0029
I contacted SmartThings support and asked if they could up the devices that were still on 0x260D0027 to the 28 version and was told that they couldn’t. From what you are saying it should be possible to upgrade mine. Am I reading what you wrote correctly?
No, I understand the confusion but 0x26090028 is not newer than 0x260D0027 and 0x260D0029.
All three start with “260” but I think you are misreading the next digit. Compare 2609 vs 260D. D comes after 9 as D in hex converts to a decimal value of 13. So if you put the firmware versions in order smallest to largest they are 0x26090028, 0x260D0027, 0x260D0029.
In your case, if your device is already on 0x260D0027 then that is more recent than 0x26090028 and you are already on a higher firmware version than SmartThings can provide.
Thanks @Brad_ST for the additional detail. I rechecked and you are right. My Halos are on the three different versions you indicated. I had copied them down incorrectly when I first looked at them. In that case I have two on the oldest firmware that I would expect could be upgraded. Is there a list of issues that were fixed? I noticed that the D0027 firmware has an issue with the humidity reading.
Sorry, I don’t have a list of issues. Inquiries about the issues fixed and ability to update from 0x26090028 would need to go through Halo but I am unsure if they are still responding to support requests.
I have a Halo+ on firmware version: 0x26090028.
Weather Alerts ARE working for me (Rochester, MN weather radio - station 4). I received numerous severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings in the past 2 days.
I also am having the issue where my humidity shows up as 5700%, but all other values are correct (temperature shows up as 70 F).
I do believe there is one piece of functionality missing with weather alerts: S.A.M.E. location settings. Before Halo folded, I was able to set the S.A.M.E. location for my county so that I didn’t get EVERY severe thunderstorm warning and EVERY tornado warning in the area. Does anyone know if there is a way to configure it or if there are plans to add configuration to set the S.A.M.E. location(s) for alerts so that we’re not alerted for every warning issued?