I have 6 smoke/CO combo alarms with voice and 4 smoke only alarms with voice. There are specific models with the voice feature which i think is great. I have seen no change in the stated policy that Insteon should not be used for such purposes. The Smoke Bridge is an augment to, not a primary functionary in the alert system. I have to assume the manufacturer of the sensor made the same ROI evaluation as any business would as did SmartLabs in deciding what function the Smoke Bridge would provide. Only certain sensors provide location information and that is somewhat general in nature. It would be nice if location, even if it was just some burned in number, was carried along with the alert message but all indications are that is not part of the sensors. That means every Smoke Bridge would trip if a Smoke Bridge existed from every sensor. Sleeping on the third floor the third floor sensor should trip to wake sleeping residence if the sensor in the basement several floors away trips. All the sensors are linked together so if any one trips they all trip. That seems like overkill plus the Smoke Bridge is going to react when the linked sensor alert trips which should be when any of the sensors trip. I am assuming users would not have a Smoke Bridge for each sensor. Question from dss – “Is there a way for the ISY to know which alarm is giving the low battery signal?†There would not be a method of know which sensor sent the Smoke alarm or which sensor sent the CO alarm or which sensor sent the low battery alarm. It indicates the Smoke Bridge API does not provide location information which identifies which sensor sent the alarm. I was using the following link as the source to this topics question.
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