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Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

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Voice prompts / announcements are cut off / incomplete

My base station does not always announce the complete voice prompts when arming home and when announcing the various sensor names in test mode.  For example, I'll press "Home" on the keypad, and the base station will say something like "Sim..." or "Simplisafe" or even just "Sss" instead of the full announcement which is "Simplisafe On, Home."  When in test mode, it'll say something like "Master..." instead of "Master Bedroom, Motion Sensor."  The completeness of the announcements vary.  Strange thing is when I arm using the app, so far the announcements have been complete.  I have the latest firmware updated one week ago.

Anyone else having the same issue?

This issue has been resolved as of Base Station firmware 2.14. If you are experiencing this issue, please update your Base Station to the latest version.
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3 years ago

We have been having the same issue for a little over a week now

3 years ago

Same issue started for our system this week.

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3 years ago

We had this issue. My issue was fixed by replacing the batteries in the keypad. The system has been working normally for a couple of weeks now. Cheers!

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Not sure, I had been having this issue for about a month like everyone else. If I double clicked my keypad or key fob button twice, it would respond with full message as normal. Finally, received message that keypad batteries were low. After replacing them, everything worked normally and has been ever since. So, maybe it was a battery/low power reaction, or whatever re-sync happens when the keypad and base station are momentarily disconnected that corrected the issue? Whatever, it is working now... I have had premature battery failure issues with them before on other devices such as key fobs and window sensors lasting barely a year. I think it's probably like your car, when your car battery is low and about to fail, other systems in the car start randomly going whacky. Hope this is of some help and you get your problem fixed.

2 Messages

3 years ago

I am experiencing the same thing on arming and disarming

39 Messages

3 years ago

Same here. Voice response works correctly maybe 50% of the time. Other times only parts of words or no spoken response at all. Seems to still arm/disarm correctly. Hoping for a fix soon. 

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3 years ago

I’m having the same issue, but our doorbell Chile no longer works in our base station. 

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@dcast43​ I will have to check our chime to see if it was effected

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3 years ago

Our voice prompts have been cutting off for about the past 3 weeks.  We push 'Home' or 'Away' on the keypad and the voice prompt gets cut off quickly.  We push 'Off' and then push either 'Home' or 'Away' again and the entire voice message plays through without getting cutoff.  Either way, system seems to arm or disarm properly and function properly.  Just a very annoying glitch.  We did remove and replace the batteries in the keypad and the same problem continues.  Hope there's a fix sometime soon...

1 Message

3 years ago

Also having this problem since December.

it makes me second guess the accuracy of my system.

6 Messages

3 years ago

Gee wiz. I have the same issue. Happening a lot lately but not all the time,

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3 years ago

If system is arming/disarming from keypad, I cannot see battery strength affecting the voice prompt on the base station. Mine will say "system" and nothing else when arming or disarming, but otherwise everything is working. We have two keypads both with new batteries and the voice messages truncating is now a frequent issue.

This seems to be a very widespread problem with a lot of people experiencing it. I hope a fix is in the works soon. Any progress??

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Hi @garys​, 

Our engineers are currently working on a fix for this issue. Once a solution has been found, we will provide an update in this thread.

39 Messages

3 years ago

When you run diagnostics from the keypad (menu, enter code, System, diagnostics) do you show wifi as available? I found out that mine was not and when I got it fixed, the voice prompts returned to normal. Although I did complete an update that had said "couldn't do without internet" after getting it set back up.

 

On another note, why does this forum let you type a response and then not let you post it until you log in? But then when you do log in, everything you typed is gone

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11 Messages

3 years ago

Yes the log in issue is a real pain, hopefully, the software people will fix that as well.

3 Messages

3 years ago

Me too

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3 years ago

Mine started after the update too.

8 Messages

3 years ago

I updated last night, but the voice prompts are still cut off.

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