Just an update, now have four working continuously for last 6 months or so. That’s using the original created DH.
However the other night I had a ‘scary ass’ moment when one of them triggered (at 01.50 hours) lights all went on and smoke indicator on the app went off. Panic mode i can tell you. Anyway - false alarm.
On the device in question, for a brief moment smoke was detected and then instantly cleared itself. It had cleared it self and the alarm wasn’t going by the time i went to check. Wondering has anyone else had an issue with this (not that once really is an issue) ?
The same smoke alarm has done the same once more since the above date - however the other 4 have not. This smoke alarm is some distance in comparison to the other and replies on a repeater. I’m guessing its either a battery issue or distance. if you have another one try swapping it with another and see.
Does anybody know if this device can also be used for other alarms than gas events? Basically turning the siren on over Zigbee to signal other alarms. For example, if my ST hub gets a motion alarm?
I assume the groovy drive does not support this. However, I can add it if the device supports it. Is there a zigbee cluster that gives control of the siren? Can anybody post the catchall signature of this device so that I can look it up?
Hi Foz is there any way to have it show up as a sensor with a ‘when smoke detected’ value? At the moment it shows as a device and shows when smoke was last detected but I can’t see a way of using that event to receive a notification or sms that it is happening.
Anyone know anyone knows a way to remotely trigger the alarm. And to link them with other alarms around the house. For example, if my kitchen alarm sound it can sound the bedroom alarm?
A number of people working on a Home Automation project called the deCONZ REST plugin (which provides a REST-API interface to access ZigBee devices) took a very technical and detailed look at all of the functions of the Xiaomi Fire Alarm and found that there is no way to remotely trigger the devices alarm sound. Not even when using the Xiaomi Gateway.
Devices with custom device handlers such as this Xiaomi Honeywell Smoke Detector are not officially supported by SmartThings in the new mobile app.
Some users have been attempting to find ways to modify the device handlers to allow the devices to work in the new app, but features such as the preference settings of the device handler are still completely absent.