ST Compatible Alarm detector like Roost or WeMo's new offering

[keithcroshaw]

My review of the Roost Smart Battery:

Personal Roost Smart Battery Review

Hello all, I just wanted to share my experience with a new product called Roost that I was really excited about. Roost is a device that looks like a 9V battery that you plug into your smoke alarm, it listens for smoke alarms and triggers push notification or IFTTT actions if it detects an alarm. Unfortunately we all know what happens when we get excited in the IOT world, we get disappointing. TLDR version : Would not recommend at all. Pain in the butt to configure, physical design flaws, and it just didn’t work with my smoke alarms at all. Detailed version: Unboxing was pleasant, good presentation. Setup: Setup uses your phone’s speaker to transmit wifi configuration, there’s probably some name for this but I don’t really care to learn the name. My Amazon Dash button uses this and it…