Heat Detection

The SS temperature sensor is not a solution for the question that was asked.  Please add a real heat detector that can be used in garages, attics, furnace rooms and kitchens.  It should have the same alarm response as the SS smoke detector.

Garages are the new ground zero for home fires. Between workshop issues with oily rags, gasoline storage, EV's and back up battery storage systems connected to solar   systems, residential garages need to be monitored for both fires and EARLY detection of cell abnormalities in batteries.  You recommend against smoke/CO detectors in garages without specifying why.  I know my stand alone smokes gave false alarms.  Is it heat or temp extremes or moisture problems?

Simpli-Safe needs to have a sophisticated sensor offerings for HEAT detection in garages and  in out-buildings with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

As the grid gets more renewable energy more of these systems will be deployed in residences and commercial facilities.

Following this tread.  As an interim measure, I will try using an a stand alone heat detector with audible alarm and put an older generation Arlo Camera in the garage to listen for that alarm- especially when I am away. 

This depends on me responding to an Arlo alarm on one phone and then me remotely trying to understand if there is a true rapid heat rise from an EV battery or our house back up battery system in the garage.  

SimpliSafe please project a response date for the request to flesh out the system.

You may want to consider placing a heat detector in the attic as well. I have responded to attic fires where the occupants were not aware that the attic was on fire until a passer by told them.

Now that we have to pay $2 more for monthly coverage (didn't the monthly fee also go up following the Covid pandemic?)  how about taking some of that money, and it probably wouldn't be that much, and give us a real heat detector that would work in those places where a smoke detector won't like the garage which my fire department tells me shouldn't be done.  Let's get moving with this request.  It's been over a year since I first requested it and many others have also input the same request.  Why have you ignored us?   Show us now, after your email stating "As of your next billing date after 9/1/2024, your plan’s price will increase by $2/month. This change will help us continue to innovate and expand how we keep you and millions of others safe every day," that you're really serious about "continuing to innovate and keeping us safe."  Heat detector that triggers a system alarm is needed. Hoping that you just don't dump the increased revenue into your profits line on the company's balance sheet and continue to ignore our requests. 

Does anyone know of competitor offerings for monitoring with heat detection?

Any Rube Goldberg solutions? Like using a wax container of water that would melt and drip water onto a water leak detector?????

https://support.simplisafe.com/conversations/product-requests-and-suggestions/heat-sensor-for-fire-alarms/6190c67d8ea41ebb0623be8f?commentId=6656443b23e7992f885af56d&replyId=6660c1ef7fd5ff6e026a72db

I have stopped holding my breath on this subject.  It seems that Simplisafe simply doesn't care about this.

It's very frustrating that SS won't provide its customers a working heat detector that triggers a fire alarm.  The real question is WHY?  Just recently had a chat with a representative and was told "it's a complex issue."  Really?  A complex issue?  How so?  You already have a fire detector and it's apparent that all you'd have to do is change out the sensor element or change your software to trigger an alarm rather then just a warning from your heat detectors.  Why is this a complex issue?  Don't we have a right to know why you don't want to provide this product which in my case was almost mandated by my local fire department for use in spaces where smoke detectors would false alarm?  C'mon give us an answer we can believe. 

SS is oblivious to its customers whenever a true heat detector is suggested for development.  "Why?" is a great question because all we hear from them is that they're dealing with a complex issue (whatever that means).   You'd think that adapting one of their smoke detectors with a solid state heat sensor in place of the smoke sensor would be a no brainer, but it seems it's beyond their development capabilities.  They have never given me a straight answer as to why it would be sooooo difficult for them to do it and add it to their product lines.  Guess that what's a no brainer to us is an unachievable technical problem for them.  You can be sure that I'll be on the lookout for a replacement system that has a farsighted development team backing up the products they provide.  Unfortunately, nobody out there offers what SS does in terms of simplicity and cost.  Maybe it's the cost that prohibiting them?  All I know is that they've recently raised their monthly rate and I would hope they could now afford to provide what so many customers are clamoring for.