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Quiet Mode: Different alarm and volume settings during sleeping hours
It would be nice if we could set quiet hours where chimes and voice prompts were quieter. I don't want to wake up other family members at night
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It would be nice if we could set quiet hours where chimes and voice prompts were quieter. I don't want to wake up other family members at night
bsims3
2 Messages
5 years ago
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alanbelniak
2 Messages
5 years ago
In the morning, I get up and get ready for work, and often leave before the house is awake.
I'd like to disarm the alarm, but not necessarily have the 'ALARM OFF' announced in the volume that it is.
Consider a keypad disarm code that disarms the alarm but only gives a visual confirmation (e.g., keypad confirmation, blinking base) for when you want to disarm in quiet/silent mode.
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christophercharlesjohnson
2 Messages
5 years ago
During the day when I have the system set to home there are a few windows that I like to have open if the weather is nice but I don't want them to set an alarm off.
On the other hand when I'm asleep I do want those windows to set off an alarm.
This probably could be solved with away mode for most people but I have motion sensors that cover large areas of rooms and sometimes I get up in the middle of the night.
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simplisafe_admin
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4 years ago
Thanks for the idea! We've let our development teams know about this request. In the meantime, if you have any more ideas or have any questions, please let us know.
SimpliSafe Social Team
SimpliSafe Home Security
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burtonrw
4 Messages
4 years ago
It's workable, but a complete PITA. A simple button in the app that would disable all audio cues for a couple of minutes would be great. Maybe easier than programming an entirely new "silent entry/exit" option.
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nprez83
7 Messages
4 years ago
The basic idea of the functionality I'm suggesting here is the following. I have 3 doors armed, several windows, several glass breaks, and importantly 3 motion sensors. I'll focus on the motion sensors as they're the ones I'm having trouble setting up with the current options. All my motion sensors are in the main level.
If the functionality existed I would set the motion sensors up as follows.
HOME DAY MODE:
- Disabled
- Instant trigger: N/A
HOME NIGHT MODE:
- Alarm
- Instant trigger: OFF
AWAY MODE:
- Alarm
- Instant trigger: ON
Basically, if we're home during the day and want to have the alarm on, the motion sensors should be off. During the night, I want the motion sensors to be on, but not trigger immediately so that we can shut the alarm off when we come downstairs in the morning. When we're away, I'd like the motion sensors to trigger an alarm immediately as we don't have pets so there should be no movement in our home if we're not there. If I had to choose one function to start with I would start with the addition of a "Night" mode, even if instant trigger remains the same.
Some might think implementing a third mode is basically a non-starter given that the keypad already has physical buttons for "Home" and "Away", but you could certainly implement the functionality I'm suggesting in software by using the screen L and R buttons to have the user select "Day" vs "Night" after they press the "Home" button.
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gaige
2 Messages
3 years ago
Last night, at 4 minutes past midnight, my Simplisafe speaker blurted out that there was a low battery in a glassbreak sensor. Whereas I appreciate knowing that there was a low battery (I replaced this AM and the system is seeing it as OK now), I really do not appreciate being awakened in the middle of the night by a system with much more intelligence behind it than the average smoke detector.
My recommendation is that initial low battery warnings should be delivered via App Notifications (which you can turn off on your device based on time of day) and/or via email.
If the low battery condition persists beyond, say, a week, then it might make sense to proclaim the alert via the speaker.
I called in to see if I was missing something and it was suggested that at night I could adjust the voice prompt volume down and then readjust it up every morning. That sounds like a horribly bad idea in general, but specifically it sounds like something that an automated system like Simplisafe could handedly do.
For as long as I can remember, people have complained about bleating smoke detectors complaining in the middle of the night that they need batteries, I just can't imagine an engineer at Simplisafe did not take it upon themselves to solve this problem for such an otherwise-sophisticated system.
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mgbphoto
54 Messages
1 year ago
Now that it is getting colder, we are receiving low battery alerts on some of our devices.
Is it possible to have a feature NOT to notify us (voice) randomly during the middle of the night ?? If the system is working, I really don't want to get out of bed to change the batteries :-) And with this in mind, it would be wonderful to receive an email alert in addition to the keypad notification for low battery alerts. Thank you!
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