Need Multiple Base Stations??

Is there an option for a second unit that chimes when an entry sensor triggers? if you can only have one base station, I would still like the house to indicate a door was opened.

@JoeViddy​ We offer an Extra Siren that will sound when an Entry Sensor is opened. You can learn more about this product on our website. 

@pksteffen​ We do offer an Extra Siren that can be placed anywhere throughout your home. Whenever an alarm is triggered, the siren will also sound through the Extra Siren. This could help for an area in your home where you may not be able to hear the Base Station. For more info, check out this page on our website.

@emily_s​ is the siren just for the alarm sound? Or can it do voice alerts as well, like for pairing new sensors, and the voice entry alert?

@walt_l​ The Extra Siren sounds the chime when an Entry Sensor is opened and the countdown for your Exit and Entry delays as well. Unfortunately, it does not relay the Base Station's voice prompts.

@ilianaspirou​ The Keypad's screen will display which mode your system is armed in. And you can also always check the Overview page of the SimpliSafe mobile app to check the system's armed state.

@davey_d 

I never want to tell an engineer that their task shouldn't be that hard, (I hate that) so I'll refrain. That said, I do think the following should be feasible: 

Couldn't functionality be added to the base station firmware so that it can be configured as either be a master or slave? (These are real tech terms and I mean no offense) In other words, have the main base station be the brains of the operation like it is now (master). Then have the other station be the slave that services more sensors and passes information back and forth to the master device, which acts on the sensor events. If both base stations are on the same WiFi or LAN, this could use TCP/IP and be nearly instantaneous. I think this would make a lot of us customers happy and theoretically from my naive standpoint not require any new hardware revision. I have a barn with a metal roof, within which is a finished room that is my home office. The sensors barely reach if I put the base station in the attic near the exterior wall. Instead of claiming the sensors should be in range and that it must be interference, it'd be better to take some customers with real world setups at their word. I'm in a rural area with very little chance for interference, and I can confirm with a software defined radio that [widely published frequency] MHz is only interfered with by one of our remote starters. (Side note: Has SimpliSafe considered using LoRa for their future sensors? It's way more robust at long distances.) My point isn't to nerd out and be a know-it-all. My point is that instead of hearing about what works in a lab and therefore should work in our scenarios, we'd like to hear that SimpliSafe is being receptive to customer feedback and is actively innovating with real solutions to overcome this glaring shortcoming in the real world. I've been hoping for years that this would improve.

Thanks, 

Jim