I need in install 6 smoke alarms in my house addition. 2 bedrooms and 1 hallway upstairs, 1 bedroom and 1 hallway downstairs, and 1 basement near the oil boiler. I’d also like to connect these to 5 other alarms on the old side of my house where there are currently only battery powered alarms. I’d like to be able to get alerts on my phone if I’m not home. So far I have a mishmash of smart products such as Lutron Caseta switches, Wyze plugs, and lorex cameras so eventually I will have to get home assistant or something to integrate everything into apple HomeKit.
I feel something like google nest protect will get silly expensive. I’m wondering if I can just get all standard kiddie hardwired alarms and only smart kiddie alarm to get notified if any alarm gets triggered?
This is a much needed product however I feel the cloud is a issue and dependency for home automation systems. This should have a REST library in order to have localized queries and other notifications \ actions to occur. I use Hubitat and others use Home Assistant to do this today. Somebody in the PLM world needs to know the cloud dependency is not the end all answer. Give me a local API I’ll write you a driver!