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“It works - sort of. It reliably reports smoke alarms and battery status to my ZWave HomeGenie controller. However, it fails to send any notification that the smoke has cleared. The Sensor.Smoke parameter stays set at 255. It appears to not support ZWave configuration in its Node Info frame, so there seems to be no way to fix the problem. It also fails to respond to a Basic.Get command, despite claiming support for it.”
“This device is not getting recognized by Fibaro Home Center 3 although the website claims it to be specifically compatible with it. When contacted support, it was communicated that it is not testing with any gateway and mention is based on availability of z-wave protocol. This is misleading and cheating. Since I am in different country, its difficult to return and also I lost on customs duty.”
Sorry to hear that but this isn't misleading - on the website it specifically states what we mean by compatible and that's visible to everyone before purchasing: https://www.vesternet.com/compatibility
With over 500 Z-Wave devices we simply can't test compatibility with every controller - it's not our place to do that even if we wanted to, as things change with software versions almost daily (all explained in the above guide - we even provide links to check compatibility from each vendor before ordering)
“The smoke sensor is nice and small, and very easy to install. It is loud and ear piercing.
I had no problems adding it to my home centre 2, very straightforward.
Purchased two of these to go into a outbuilding.
Highly recommended”
“I was surprised how small this device was so I was naturally amazed when I tested the alarm--it was close to deafening (which is a good thing).
I just had a bit of difficulty including the device in my network (you have to push the pin 3 times quicker than usual) but not a big deal for me.”
“Im totally new to Home Automation and I am currently setting up my home using a number of Z Wave devices using Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4. The Heiman Smoke Detector is very small and compact and once I've got my head around Home Assistant it was fairly easy to add to the existing Z Wave network. For this I pressed the pairing button 3 times within 1.5 seconds whilst Home Assistant was in Discovering mode. I also clicked Add Zone within the Z Wave network add-on although not sure if this step was needed. Home Assistant paired the Heiman Smoke Detector successfully.
If you are looking to add this device into your setup I would recommend using the script below to help with sending an automated notification via a trigger. For my Home Assistant setup I enabled iOS notifications to allow a message to be sent to my iPhone when the smoke detector goes off rather than SMS although you can also add this within Home Assistant if you wish. Having tested this successfully with a burning match I can verify that this is a great little smoke detector and will be buying more of them. The smoke sensor also works independently of your Z Wave network so it will sound a very loud audible alarm regardless.
Automated Trigger code within Home Assistant: (note the entry you need is 'sensor.heiman_technology_co_ltd_smart_smoke_sensor_hs1sa_z_smoke'
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entity_id: sensor.heiman_technology_co_ltd_smart_smoke_sensor_hs1sa_z_smoke
from: '0'
platform: state
to: '2'`”
