Separate Door Chime setting per Entry Sensor

Hi @jimzeroff, 

There is no current capability to turn off the chime for certain Entry Sensors; there is only the ability to turn them all off or all on. There could be a workaround for your situation: if you set the Entry Sensors you use often to "Secret Alert" it won't chime, but it will send a push notification to your phone.

I hear you, though! I'll pass this idea along to our dev team.

I would also love this feature.  We have sensors on every window and door.  I don’t need a chime every time I open all the windows on a nice spring day, so the ability to turn off chimes for specific sensors would be fantastic!

Would love this feature for when my dog is sleeping and I need to access the patio but still want the chime to go off for all other doors.

A very thoughtful, detailed post from a loyal customer that deserves the same kind of response from Simplisafe. No offense to Emily or Davey, you are great at your jobs and faithfully pass suggestions such as these to the development team on a regular basis.  The issue here is that Simplisafe is not a regular, or usual type of security company.  (I know, as the founder and CEO of SS was in the forums on a regular basis back in the day.)

Here's the point, again. Marcom needs to get off their duffs and actively manage the products they manage.  That doesn't just mean internal meetings, conference calls and being held accountable to their direct supervisor/managers. It means being held accountable to the ultimate supervisor/manager, external customers.

Please, shock all of us, and have someone in product management spend the few minutes it would take to respond to Ben_in_NC here in the forums.  And in the area of special needs features, such as his requests and the often strobe light feature request, actually do something.  ADT wouldn't but the Simplisafe I use to know would.

User here.

Are you a programming and computer technically inclined, DIY type background?

Unfortunately, it took years for even the Simplisafe announcement feature to come to development. And it's extremely limited to names they pick.

I can point you towards hardware and devices, but its all DIY. GUI programming for much, but easy and similar to IFTTT, YAML for high end automation. (Similar to HTML in web pages)

For instance, when one of my doors or windows etc., open I can set off an alarm, and/or send myself a push notification, and/or if opened and left open send warnings ASAP or reminders every so many minutes that its still open etc. etc. Skies the limit.

Sounds for me come thru my Bluetooth hearing aids via my Samsung phone, but I suppose speakers or Echo's etc could be integrated as well. I don't use those myself. I do integrate a bluetooth speaker at night when my other alarm is armed.

That alarm integration written by someone else, does do zones, allows night, all sensors armed, home, just sensors I never open. Etc.

Android phone sounds are the alert for me.

Too much to describe here. If you're interested, I'll DM you some info and you can research it and do the due diligence.

Any or most canned systems including SS is going to be limited with features or perhaps a bone thrown out occasionally.

@dlpsr​ samples of push notifications coming into my Samsung phone.

@captain11​ 👍 Happens with my other equipment, for now..., especially in Beta, but when they also get rich and famous, sellout & are owned by an investor, who knows what will happen then.

The way of the times I suppose. Mammon & stockholders rule! Maybe they just need the right leadership to change, @captain11 perhaps?😉

@dlpsr​ thanks for the response!

Yes I am technically inclined... Been in IT/InfoSec for 30+ years. Thought about going that route but was really wanting the integration into simplisafe so if there is some hooks into the system somewhere point me to any documentation or guide if someone has done the integration piece. I can easily run any of the home automation applications in a VM or Docker or even on a Pi.

Main reason for the desire/requirement on the integration is my wife, my parents and my in-laws are all technically challenged... and/or old enough to have hearing aids but constantly forget to put them in when coming over to spend time or watch the kids so my wife and I can go to dinner occasionally.... Lol

I'm not huge on the development side of things (unless you consider programing PLC's with ladder logic and/or banging out a wicked Batch file, VBScript, Powershell or Python job)....but can fumble my way through enough to get me in trouble in other stuff... But I have LOTS of friends who would spit out the code for just about anything in their sleep and more than a few who likely would reverse engineer and hardware hack the basestation just for fun and because they never turn down a challenge to see what they can do with it or find hardware/software security flaws/vulnerabilities.

Send me a DM for sure. 

-Ben