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How SimpliSafe® Products Respond During an Alarm

SimpliSafe’s® Professional Monitoring protects your home or business across many types of alarms. If an alarm is triggered from your system, you’ll be immediately notified through App Push Notifications or Alarm Text Messages. Depending on your monitoring plan and alarm type you can also interact wi

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How Does the Smoke Detector Respond During an Alarm

When the Smoke Detector detects particulate consistent with smoke, it will sound the alarm to notify you of the potential hazard. After the alarm has sounded, two things will happen at once, depending on your monitoring plan. The first Primary Contact(s) of that location will receive an Alarm Text,

Install / Set Up Help

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How to Find the Serial Number for Your SimpliSafe® Device or Camera

During troubleshooting or for account verification purposes, you may be required to identify the serial number for a product within your system. You can easily find the serial number for your devices or cameras within the SimpliSafe® Mobile App. Using the SimpliSafe® Mobile App: Open the SimpliSafe®

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Tamper Detected Error

You may encounter a constant yellow light that is not accompanied by a chirp on your Smoke Detector, CO Detector, or Smoke & CO Detector, accompanied by the app error “Tamper Detected”. This is an indication that the Smoke and/or CO Detector is not fully attached to its bracket, and needs to be adju

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Malfunction Error

If you see a “Malfunctioned” error for your Smoke Detector, Carbon Monoxide Detector, or Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector, that means that the device should be replaced as soon as possible. If your device is still within warranty, please contact our Support team to receive a replacement.

Errors / Warnings

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Low Sensitivity Error

If you see the “Low Sensitivity" error for the Smoke Detector, Carbon Monoxide Detector, or Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector, that indicates that you need to clean your device so it can detect properly. To Clean the Device: Twist the detector counterclockwise to remove it from its bracket Remove a b

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Testing the Smoke Detector

Test Mode is a great way to test the connection between your Base Station and other sensors. We recommend periodically placing your system into Test Mode to ensure that your sensors are still communicating with the Base Station without any errors. Placing Your System Into Test Mode Disarm your syste

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