I have been looking for a smart smoke/CO detector that does not require hardwire. I recently came across Sensereo but I am wondering whether it will be compatible with Hubitat. It is matter device so it should. Also wonder what other people use for smart smoke/CO detector/alarm.
As long as you have a Thread Border Router on your network, it should. The Generic Matter Smoke Detector driver was tested against the MS-1.
I used to use the FirstAlert ZCOMBO smoke/CO detector and still have one in use. Later, I used the Ecolink FireFigther, which came in Zigbee and Z-Wave (and 433 MHz and probably others that aren't relevant for Hubitat) versions. I'm not sure if they still make either or both of these, but there are others like the Ring listener. These are nice because you can use whatever smoke detectors you already have or prefer, and they just listen for the UL-standard signals. If your system is hardwired, these will still work, or there are inline detectors like the Zooz ZEN55 you could also use in that case.
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I didn't know this existed, thanks! I have been wanting to add smoke alarms to Hubitat but I didn't want to replace all the detectors in the house, as they are only a few years old. Being able to trigger off the interconnect is such an easy solution.
First Alert makes a relay, with dry contact for alarm systems. Attach a contact sensor to that, like an Ecolink. The ZEN55 gives you a little more capability, like smoke vs co, but still, only on the entire system. The ZEN55 is powered by line voltage, so you don't have to think about battery replacement. Still, worthwhile to test once in a while, lol, as I've found out.
Unless you deploy bunches of those listener things, you still won't know which detector triggered, unless it "tells" you in some way. That's if the listener works.
Ostensibly, Apple Home can listen too, but it didn't work when I tried it.
The z-wave* ecolink firefighters have worked reliably for me when I test them (or when a nuisance alarm goes off, thankfully no real fires here).
They must be placed within six inches of the smoke/co alarm they’re monitoring, so buying one per detector is a downside but knowing the location of the alarming detector is worth the cost of additional devices IMO.
*For some reason, the zigbee version didn’t want to work with my hub. Even with a test driver @mike.maxwell made a while back. Not sure what was up with that.
I was gonna go with zooz but the I realized my alarm is battery powered. T__T
The one z-wave detector, the Z-Combo, I have, is in the garage-couldn't easily run a 120 V wire out there to interconnect. It alarms inside the house and makes a voice announcement - via Hubitat, so that has to be working, lol. I don't think I can hear the device's local alarm in the house, and it'll never wake me up. But, it's better than nothing. No false alarms either.
If yours are battery only anyway, why not try a hub-connected detector?
Sorry I don't know what is hub-connected detector?
I literally just upgrade to C8 pro. Not quite familiar with Thread yet. Do you mean I would need a thread hub for this to work?
Yes, you'd need (at least one) Thread Border Router in your network - Hubitat itself cannot do that hardware-wise.
This may be a helpful starting point for you:
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