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Visual Indicator for Alarm State
I saw a thread where this suggestion was submitted in 2011 Here were 9 years later and nothing has been done to assist the hearing impaired
Once again my alarm was triggered because I could not hear the warning beeps. I set the alarm accidentally when I put my keys in my pocket
Its not a major engineering thing. Just add AC powered blinking lights as devices. There is already some two way communication between cell phones and the system. You could just add devices that use the home wireless just like the base. The devices do not have to communicate two way directly with the base, they could get their trigger from the web, but they could be triggered like the siren but during countdown. Once the countdown starts, the web site could alert the lights.
This is a revenue opportunity being missed. I can tell you I would buy at least two of those devices, even at 100 per device
One suggestion that would take almost no engineering and that is to add a voice warning when the alarm is in countdown mode to triggering. This should override the volume setting and be repeated at the highest volume. Something like "warning, the alarm is about to trigger" Or even "Warning" This would not solve the issue for the deaf, but it would sure help someone like be with severe mid/high frequency loss
The base already has voice. Even a programming change that simply repeats one of the armed commands when the trigger timer is counting down would be awesome
Once again my alarm was triggered because I could not hear the warning beeps. I set the alarm accidentally when I put my keys in my pocket
Its not a major engineering thing. Just add AC powered blinking lights as devices. There is already some two way communication between cell phones and the system. You could just add devices that use the home wireless just like the base. The devices do not have to communicate two way directly with the base, they could get their trigger from the web, but they could be triggered like the siren but during countdown. Once the countdown starts, the web site could alert the lights.
This is a revenue opportunity being missed. I can tell you I would buy at least two of those devices, even at 100 per device
One suggestion that would take almost no engineering and that is to add a voice warning when the alarm is in countdown mode to triggering. This should override the volume setting and be repeated at the highest volume. Something like "warning, the alarm is about to trigger" Or even "Warning" This would not solve the issue for the deaf, but it would sure help someone like be with severe mid/high frequency loss
The base already has voice. Even a programming change that simply repeats one of the armed commands when the trigger timer is counting down would be awesome
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