The Roost battery makes it easy to make your smoke, carbon monoxide, and other monitors or alarms smarter! The Roost is a 9v battery that connects to your home’s Wi-Fi network and can be managed from your smartphone. It’s compatible with your existing alarms, so you don’t have to invest in any more smart devices – just the battery! BTW you won’t be throwing out the Roost, just swapping out it’s lithium battery pack, keeping all the smarts. Nice.
And since it is simply a smart battery, your typical smoke alarm, will still do its usual thing, going off when it senses smoke. That means that should your power be out, or your wifi down, you still have a functioning smoke, or CO2 or other sensor/alarm, working in its traditional old school fashion.
I will be doing a short review on the Roost, in the not too distant future. That’s because I consider it a compelling product, a must have solution in a home automation world of lots of products that are great, but that we can live without. I cannot live another year without installing these in our Dream Home project’s assorted sensors. The reason why is the first one discussed below: No more 3am chirps!
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