Poor Annunciation

The Simply Safe a system has great annunciation at the base but if you have a large home or multiple floors you have to rely on remote sirens which are terrible annunciators!

SimpliSafe missed an opportunity to include Annunciation through the keypads which apparently have already all the technology necessary to act as annunciators and chime with voice prompts on alarms! 

SimpliSafe should investigate the possibility of using Amazon's echo dot devices as base station repeaters, or create some vehicle by which the actual base station audio output can be replicated at different areas in the house. This would turn the system from good to excellent.

Another option is to put push type chime and voice annunciations into the SS App.  This would at least allow the user to know what is going on in detail when they are out of hearing range of the base!

No complaints on the function of the alarm features but the interface to the user leaves a lot to be desired.

SimpliSafe did not follow the conventional industry wisdom with how keypads interface to the users and act as annunciators.  If I am downstairs and somebody opens the front door and I am not within earshot of the base, I have no clue what's going on. I may not even here the Annunciation of the chime feature. A terrible waste on otherwise excellent system layout.  SimpliSafe moved the benchmark up in low cost DIY alarm technology but terribly botched the at-site user experience.

I am a retired alarm industry executive and understand the trials and tribulations of alarm design and the compromises for cost, etc. But mostly here it is a design shortcoming as these features would not be expensive to incorporate.   Because the Annunciation and chime feature is a critical feature for me I'm actually considering returning my system for something else.

I need the Base annunciation at all levels of my home and at each area there is a keypad.