While they are more expensive I have used Sensaphone Web600 devices to monitor multiple things like room temperature, humidity, and leak detection. They have 6 channel inputs that can be set to N.O. or N.C. and send alerts for each channel. Each channel can be given a custom name. In your case you could actually wire the Alarm, Trouble, and Supervisory relays off the FACP to the Sensaphone and monitor all three. The Web600 connects to an email server (gmail will work) and can be set to email or use the email to text address that most carriers provide. I have found that the email to txt address vs the email to mms messaging sometimes uses the same phone number. This depends on your phone carrier.
What I did is take a ring alarm co and smoke listener and put it next to a horn strobe. This makes it so it alerts me, but won't tell me if there's any other conditions on the panel. Still cool though.
that’s a pretty neat solution especially without building anything software-side. if i had a panel myself i’d probably play around with coding something to DIY it 😂
In New Zealand, some Pertronic alarm panels have a feature where you can connect them to your pager or even printer. The best panel I recommend for price to feature ratio is the F100 which i know has that feature and can be configured to do many other things. Or you can use something smaller like the F1 or F4. But i don’t know if they have it.
@@pilotboy Not public info. If you ask enough tecnitions they might give offer you a previusley installed one. I am expecting to get one at the end of the year.
I also wanted to mention after watching alot of your other vidoes.. it would be really cool if you have annunciator in your room or somewhere in the house so you could monitor or silence / reset the system without having to get up and / or go outside
There is two problems with that though first one being I won't stay in the same room second of all if the fire alarm goes off it's going off for a reason and I need to get out to see the problem ASAP you never ever silence a fire alarm blind if your building is going on fire you're not going to just wake up silence the alarm without going to see what's happening first
@@nics-systems-electric good points.. I just thaught I would suggest it. Also I assumed you had a way to look at your cameras while your in the house and if you could see there was nothing going on (false alarm) you could silence or reset the system from the annunciator
I've made a homemade communicator using an esp8266 wifi microcontroller running some basic code to connect to wifi and send an email using SMTP. This method also has no subscription fees and only costs like $5 for the controller. Let me know if anyone wants more info.
Please note that this alarm communcator still needs working Wifi. I think a communicator working on comination on fixed (internet) connection and mobile as backup is the best approach, you don't to miss fire alarms due to a malfunction wifi
I talked about this in the video that it does not need Wi-Fi and will still communicate a loss of power without not to mention my Wi-Fi doesn't go out in a power outage
BTW: Did that WIFI unit still connect to the AP after you closed the door on the file panel? I would thing that the fire panel being made out of metal would block the wifi signal from getting out.
Curious if it works reliably with the door closed on the panel? Other than the plastic window, the red box makes for a bit of a faraday cage which could cause some level of Wi-Fi interference. I suppose if your AP is close by it’s not that much of an issue tho. Good job on the install and engineering; quite the unique “hack” you came up with!
Would it work if you switched the normally closed with the normally open so the power will turn back on and it will send a message? Might be better than disconnecting the power and it should still send you a message if it turns back on
I was just talking to my dad about doing this same concept with my garage/pole barn, haha. Is there any way the text can say something like "Alarm Active"?
