Hi All,
I have a few First Alert ZWave combo Smoke\CO units that are certifed to work with the Ring Alarm. These do work as when I burnt something in the kitchen my Ring was alarming on the base as well as my phone.
What scares me though is that I took the batteries out of a couple of them (they are not hardwired) and Ring didn’t notify me that they were offline. Is this a bug? Or does the Ring Alarm NOT monitor the devices to see the battery level? Or if they are even online?
Hi @fred7157! The Base Station will alert you when a device is reporting as offline. The First Alert Smoke/CO Combo is a Certified Works with Ring device and you are not able able to see the battery life in the app. I will share this feedback with the team here. Learn more about Works with Ring devices in this Ring Help Center article.
The response by @Chelsea_Ring is not completely correct. You ARE able to see the battery life of the First Alert Smoke/CO Combo in the app. However, the app does not do anything useful with the information, like telling you when you have a low battery before the alarm starts chirping. since the app has the info it could notify of low battery levels. This could and should be fixed and I have put in a feature request/suggestion to that effect on the noticeboard.
I assume that if I have the First Alert ZCombo Smoke/CO detector that I won’t need the listening device that Ring also sells. Is this correct ?
You are correct that you won’t need the listening device. Just make sure that the ring alarm base station shows they are online with the base station.
Will it work with the First Alert OneLink Smoke and CO detector?
https://www.firstalert.com/product/onelink-smoke-carbon-monoxide-alarm-ac-power/