Your smoke alarm needs to use the signal in the current version of NFPA 72, the US National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code. So you will probably need a US smoke detector less than a handful of years old. The alarm should be in direct earshot of the camera so the sound is not distorted or attenuated. You would need to play the signal for a few cycles so the camera can identify it.
When it alerts you it should NOT be in the form of a simple sound alert , it should identify it as a smoke or CO alarm.
I have never actually used simple sound alerts because they trigger on ANY sound – house creaking, whatever. So simple sound alerts are turned off for me in Event Recording > Sound. To get Fire alarms, sound is on under Notifications, though (and also under Alarm Settings, obviously). I also have sound detection sensitivity is also set to 100 under Detection Settings.
I just tested with 4 or 5 cycles in my hallway and I got an “Smoke alarm sound detected” alert from 2 cameras along with a couple of corresponding 12-second clips labeled “Smoke alarm sound”.
Thanks. Was that with a V2 Wyzecam you got the alert?
I have Firstalert Z-combo alarms from last year, so the sound is compliant with the pattern required.
I did notice a peculiar behavior. While holding the alarm in front of my wyzepan, the other camera(a V2) did send a smoke alert, but not the pancam.
The V1 cams never work, and never did, that’s why I wound up with z-wave alarms on hubitat, and Halos on ST.
I setup my new WYZE OG camera for SMOKE alarm detection. However, twice in the middle of the night the alarm went off very loud (I learned something here about HI-low alarm settings). I hurriedly disconnected it and again there was no smoke… nothing to cause the alarm going off. Any suggestions? I have since turned off the smoke detection button.
The camera is not a smoke alarm and does not have any impact on your smoke alarms. All this feature does is send you a notification if it hears a smoke alarm going off in your house.
If the camera alarm is going off, it sounds like you have a rule or motion trigger set to set off the alarm. If your smoke alarm went off, that’s nothing to do with your Wyze camera.