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Sunday, October 18th, 2020 5:25 PM

Add a speaker to the base station?

I have just left ADT and installed a Simplisafe system and the difference is fantastic.  I have hidden the base unit in the house and love the part where it speaks to tell you when the alarm is set etc.

What I would love to know is, can you sync it to a Bluetooth speaker, say an Alexa or can you get a separate Bluetooth speaker for the base unit so I can hear the commands in a different part the house?

I intend to max this system out and expand it fully.

many thanks

Captain

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4 years ago

As of right now, there is no official way to do it, however, if you use a google site search, some customers have a hacked solution. For my SS3 system, as it was with my SS2 system, I have it configured to no lights, no prompts, no noise, period.  The delay for home is set to 0 and for away, I called and cranked entry down to 20 seconds. Add that the base is quiet, very unlikely an intruder would find it before sending a signal to monitoring company.

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Why do you want the alarm to be silent? Do you really think that they Simplisafe will send the cops over within 5mins? Even if one cop arrive soon enough, the burglars may still still walk away freely. That's in the USA only because cops have no reasons to risk their lives and job to catch the bad guys. In fact, some cities even have laws to forbid cops from chasing the bad guys.

So, I think the best way to defend ourselves is not to put valuable stuff at home.  Make the alarm as loud as possible and hope the burglars will leave quickly without too much damage.

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@wtt​ that's why it's good to have simplisafe cameras in your home, I have 2 smart alarm cameras and gave them permission through the app to lok in them and they can intervene with the intruder and send the video to the cops which is good as normally when an alarm goes off and the cops get just (an alarm is going off at so and so address) they tend to take there time but when they get an actual video sent to them in there car they respond very quickly. If someone breaks into my home the base says nothing but the keypads beep but that's OK and the siren will sound plus I have the outdoor siren outside as well so the whole neighborhood will know. I know a few cops and they say if they get actual footage from the monitoring company they respond super fast. 

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