Omacitin

Omacitin, 8 months ago

OP here, I ended up purchasing one USI MI106S, which advertises the following:

• Combines the benefits of both Photoelectric & Ionization technology in one alarm
• Smart Alarm Technology virtually eliminates nuisance alarms
• Automatic temperature and humidity compensation continuously adjusts to variations in environmental conditions, reducing nuisance alarms

Which sounds like what I’m looking for. I’ll try some informal tests on it before I buy more.

Omacitin, 8 months ago

I’ve got a T6 Z-Wave also, controlling a 2-stage heat pump. I have it connected to HA through Zwave2mqtt. It’s been pretty great except for two things:

A. Changing the time has no effect, as if the clock is read-only due to a hardware issue. I’ve had to set up the daily schedule in HA instead, but it’s probably better that way anyway.

B. I can’t see the stage and aux heat status in HA. Looks like all it exposes is a ‘heating’ or ‘cooling’ state. Anybody know how to get more info?

Omacitin, 8 months ago

FYI, there is a Scheduler card that might make that automation easier.

github.com/nielsfaber/scheduler-card

Omacitin, 9 months ago

I’ve had 10 of the RGB ones, E21-N1EA, for a few months now and they’ve been working perfectly. Not the brightest or the most accurate color, but they’re simple, cheap, and local-only.