Heat Sensors or Temperature Sensors

@BillAggie​ the major problem with that is the the Temperature Sensors update only once per hour. So unfortunately it wouldn't be fast enough to alert for fire. It really is just for monitoring room temperature, e.g. for frozen pipes or overheating pets.

Okay understood! However you guys need to revisit the logic on this even as a monitoring system only. I use the free sensors to monitor my crawl space and my greenhouses.  If I set the temperature at a 36 degree freeze warning, the system does alert me but then it keeps alerting every hour all night long.  There's no way to pause it!   I don't think you guys thought this through as nobody wants a repeated alarm every hour... All night long it makes the feature worthless.  My wife complains constantly about the alerts because once they start they don't stop until you either remove the sensor physically or delete it. You should use the logic that once a temp threshold alarm has raced alarm status, you don't continually trigger that device but instead warn with a status light or a keypad message that is in triggered condition.  Try sleeping with a freezer warning, it's impossible.

@davey_d​ 

Why can't your engineering group design such a device?  Heck, just replace the smoke sensor on your smoke detector with a heat sensor external to the case that would trigger an alarm if it melted.  That's how system heat sensors work.  It can't be that complicated since other alarm systems have them.  Then use the smoke detector logic to essentially provide communications to the base station like you already do.  My fire department hates the idea of having a smoke detector in the garage for what likely will produce false alarms.  My basement has a workshop that generates much dust and will trigger you smoke detectors.  That's unacceptable.  Why just tonight an alarm was triggered when I was cleaning up the floor of the workshop and the detector is in the next room.  So please do something about this.  It can't be that hard.   Look,  I once many years ago integrated an off-the-shelf smoke detector with a mass produced clock radio that would detect smoke and trigger the radio's alarm.  The company I worked for wanted the device to put in hotel rooms where there were no central alarm systems at the time.  If I could do this, Simplisafe can adapt it's smoke detector to a heat sensor configuration.    

They said that the idea was submitted to development, but they've said that before.  I have tried to get them to manufacture one, but every time I feel like I'm talking to a stone wall.  Keep  prodding them as I will as well.  Sooner or later they're bound to get the message and our problems will go away.  I'm actually thinking about opening one up one and integrating a Bosch solid state button sensor into it in place of their smoke sensor.  Will let everybody know if I'm successful.   

@dcane​ Unfortunately at this time I do not have an update on this product request. As Aswierz mentioned, we do have an open ticket for a Heat Sensor with our dev team, but I do not have any word from them on whether it will be brought into development or not. I'll bubble this back up to them, but when we have news we'll let everyone know in this thread. 

8 months later and still no word about the requests for a heat detector that would trigger an alarm.  Does SS development group understand English?  Has SS simply decided to do development off shore and wherever it's located just doesn't speak our language and ignore the requests?  

Thanks for your consideration?  That's a wasted sentiment for a company that has ignored many requests for a heat detector that would trigger a fire alarm.  Whenever anyone requests such a device SS appears to deep six it out of hand.  They've ignored many requests and haven't said a word about developing such a detector that was first requested many months ago.  This company DOESN'T LISTEN.  If they think that their arrogance will keep them in business they should think about companies like DEC and Wang and what happened to these two billion dollar "premadonnas" who, thanks to arrogant management/workforce, went belly up.