I hope this is the best place to ask this.
I have 5 First Alert smoke detectors paired to my C8 hub. I just managed to set up Noonlight and I think I have it set correctly in HSM to notify Noonlight if they trigger. Is this a good or bad idea? I did a test of Noonlight by manually turning on the device switch and their text and phone call worked as they should.
UPDATE:
upon further exploring the use of Noonlight I found that where I live in the City of Los Angeles, an alarm permit from the City is required even if it is monitoring only the smoke detectors. Because of this I am not going to use Noonlight.
I have removed the Noonlight app and device from my Hubitat and will use HSM to send smoke detection alarm notifications to my phone and iPad along with using pushover for urgent notifications.
I can't claim much experience in this space... The best I can offer is to suggest it might be worth changing the category from Lounge to something more specific around (perhaps) HSM. In addition to this....
As always, it is often helpful to include screenshots of what you have tried to setup so far, to add to what you have described already. As for any Devices you have setup and used in your Hubitat Elevation, it would be good to outline the drivers you have used, again easy to do using a screenshot of the appropriate section of the Device details page.
Beyond these concepts around the HE Community, I can't offer too much more specific to what you are trying to achieve, only to say that, while I do not use Hubitat as a "security" monitor in any meaningful way.... I would suggest looking at Hubitat as just that, a monitor that can inform you or other systems about issues it notices, but see it as a "nice-to-have" and/or something that facilitates an easier control mechanism... I could go on, but feel I may be straying from your originally question, so probably worth checking in at this stage that this is the kind of information you were after...
I think the catch with Noon Light is do they support fire alarm monitoring. Unless something changed I don't think they can call Fire and Rescue. This could of changed since i originally looked at it, but i know that was a big part of the discussion before when i looked at what they can and can't do.
At best this may help you be notified, but it may do nothing to protect your house really.
Hi, thank you for answering my question. I’ll look at posting in HSM instead. I posted here since I have it set up and working, I was looking for general opinions on using it or not.
My understanding was they didn't have a way at the time to know if it was 1. a Burgler alert, 2. a Fire, or 3 a health alert. Calling 911 for everything could become problematic. Hopefully that changed as they integration changed, but i haven't looked at it for a while. Hopefully they figured that out.
Don't re-post; edit your original post and change the categories if you want to "move" it. But I wouldn't worry about it too much--this forum software (Discourse) makes it pretty easy to discover topics no matter where they are posted, and I can see this being tangential to HE and "Lounge"-esque more than an actual HSM question anyway.
As for the original question, I can't help you much there, other than to say that I wouldn't want to have 911 automatically called for anything unless I was 100% sure that it was working as intended. I don't have experience with professional monitoring systems that might do that on your behalf, either (I think that's what Noonlight does?)--just ways to do something similar myself remotely, which is good enough for my needs. Of course, yours may vary.
I've been using noonlight for a few years and it works great. I'm not sure about distinguishing the type of alarm but I was awakened by the fire department early one morning. I had a defective smoke alarm that triggered without sounding.
I have found the service to be completely reliable. You'll receive a text, if you don't respond in a few seconds they'll call. If you don't answer they will dispatch.
Thank you about suggesting to leave my post in the Lounge. I was planning on leaving it as it is.
As I understand how it works, Noonlight responds to a triggered event with a text that can be responded to advise a false alarm if that is the case. If no text response they telephone and you are connected to a live agent. If no answer then they will dispatch accordingly.
After further exploring I am finding that where I am in Los Angeles using Noonlight qualifies as using a monitored alarm service and as such requires an alarm permit from the city.
So I’m thinking that I will not continue with my use of Noonlight so I don’t have to add a layer of government involvement and cost.
Guess I’ll make use of Hubitat notifications along with urgent pushover notifications.
