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Saturday, March 8th, 2025 7:19 PM

Gen 2 motion sensors stopped responding

Hi Simplisafe,

Reporting a strange issue.

Over six hours all of my seven Gen 2 motion sensors stopped responding.

From 07:47 to 13:47 UK time.

At first the system was switched to OFF mode and within a couple of seconds, l received a notification that the Kitchen and Garage motion sensors had stopped responding, both at the same time 07:47.

I removed the battery on both sensors and checked the power level and it was full.

Reinstalling the battery restored these two sensors.

At 10:42 the system was switched to AWAY mode, then over the next three hours five more Gen 2 motion sensors stopped responding, from 10:47 to 13:47.

I received a notification each time a sensor stopped responding, and this also showed in the timeline, but checking the system on the app and refreshing the page it said everything was okay, l also went to settings and refreshed that page and the green tick/check mark was still showing.

Once home, just removing the battery for a second restored each sensor.

Thank you

Craig.

Captain

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24 days ago

@craig7327 Greetings from the colonies.  I suggest you check your timeline and see if you recently received a firmware update. If you did, like I did, OD cameras and just my 2 Gen 2 motions didn't update properly. (All Gen1 motions were fine.) A call into support and a 45 minute call took care of all of the issues.

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23 days ago

Hi @captain11 

Well all seems resolved now, strange how they all stopped 47 minutes on the hour over 6 hours.  

l’ve been a customer now for almost 5 years now and l don’t think l’ve seen reference in the timeline about updates. 

l know the US and UK systems can differ slightly, l wonder if we don’t get updates listed in our timelines. 

l did look back through and haven’t spotted anything so far or l missed it. 

Thank you anyway for the suggestion. 

Craig. 

Community Admin

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21 days ago

Hi @craig7327

 

You have done the correct steps in resolving the issue. Here is an article on some extra steps you can take to ensure your system is up-to-date too. 
There is a new Base Station FW being released in the coming weeks which includes an update on preventing Gen 2 Motion Sensors from getting into this state, but please reach out to us if this does happen again, as it's uncommon for all your sensors to not respond withing a short time period, although we do not expect it to happen again after the actions you have taken. 

 

SimpliSafe 

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@Sav_SS​ 

Thank you for the article link. The basestation received a firmware update this morning (2.18.6.0)   

So far since restoring the motion sensors, there has been no issues. 

Thanks again. 
Craig. 

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