[App][Pro] X-Sense - Ultimate home safety with X-Sense smart devices

i figure out right now the device disconnect by itself from the network!? After reconnecting it is 5 minutes configured in the network and then off…aim in front of the router, the signal is -43dBm during the 5 minutes when the device is connected…that behavior explain why the values are not actual on homey side!

I’ve just tested it again. The smoke alarms are going off at my place, and both Homey and Home Assistant are responding immediately to the smoke alarm.
I can’t say why it isn’t working for you.

i had give them one more chance, but same result…no impact in homey when a alarm occure…only one message from homey when you add the first time a device " The Device dont detect a smoke"..thats all.

Are you making the test with the “Test” Button directly on a Device or do you made a real test with a spray or incense stick? However good that is working in your system maybe a connection between HA and Homey because it works?..However in my case i cant trust the system anymore also the network behavior i cant comprehend so i send them back…too bad :frowning:

I carried out the test using both methods. Once with cigarette smoke and once using the test button. Both Homey and Home Assistant triggered an alarm.
I can only imagine that the problem lies with the network?

Thx for replay…well I guess also network, but no idea where I should look…all other devices are working properly and these are more than 70 Wlan devices from different brands…also I never had seen before a behaivor like this…what I could see is after a test alarm with the button the device is back in the Unifi network for approx 5min after then it is grey in the overview??? You see it but in the log from Unifi is written „ disconnected“.

I also use a UniFi network and can confirm that the smoke detectors disconnect after a short while. However, they do this to save energy and preserve battery life. In the event of an alarm, though, they reconnect immediately and send the signal to the network.

This is true for almost any battery powered sensor. I have many Tuya WiFi sensors and smoke detectors and these also connect only when an event is triggered (e.g. smoke for a smoke detector, motion for a PIR sensor, contact open/close for a door sensor). The sensors usually run on a small battery (AA/AAA) and having them always connected would drain the battery within a day.

For my Tuya sensors, I also see in my ZyxelNebula AP’s event log that the devices disconnects quickly after sending the message to the server.

Thx guys for your explanation, i didnt know that! The majority of my smart home devices are in matter-thread network or zigbee, i have actualy less smart home devices in Wifi network, the few devices are not battery powered otherwise i would have noticed this already. This explain the behaivor of the network re-connection.

Well, so the network connection seems not to be the problem because i see the reconnection in the UNIFI log when a alarm occur but nothing happen on homey side? Could it be that i made a mistake with the second account, are there any settings i have to do maybe? It seems he refresh not the cloud status even when a alarm occur…

At least battery powered Zigbee devices (end devices) do exactly the same: “wake up” from an event, connect to the network, send the message and then disconnect again. This is also to save the battery, since having them constantly connected would drain the battery too quickly. It’s just less visible, but the devices still work the same way

Great thx for this input! As you wrote this all other devices are not visible when they re-connect, for the wifi devices i saw it first time in the UNIFI network device overview…

Hi Sven,

First of all: thanks for the app! I appreciate your efforts.

I’ve got a base station (SBS50), a CO-detector (XC01-M), two battery powered smoke detectors (XS01-M) and five grid powered smoke detectors (XS0F-PMA with RF module RFM2300ZW-B).

The CO-detector and battery powered smoke detectors are discovered by your app and can be added as device in Homey. The grid powered smoke detectors are not discovered by your app.

Are those not (yet) supported by your app? Or am I doing something wrong perhaps? I would be very happy if the grid powered smoke detectors were to be supported.

Thanks again for your efforts!

Kind regards,
Tim

I’m new to Homey. I was able to connect my x-sense devices to my Homey Pro 2026. However I don’t get any messages if I use the test button or perform a smoke drill test. If I check the smoke detectors one by one they indicate “last seen 9 days ago”. What is the best approach to do more troubleshooting? I created a flow when to get an alert once the test button is pressed, but nothing happend when I press the test button on the smoke detector. (Seems the same issue as user Rammstein)

I filed a Pull Request on Github containing the additional support of XS0F-PMA (230V smoke detectors, with RF module)

Tested this with 5 such smoke detectors, 2 battery powered smoke detectors and a battery powered smoke detector. All as RF device on an SBS50 hub.

Discovered another (critical) error in the app: “Smoke detected event” will NOT trigger for child devices of an SBS50 hub. They do for WiFi attached devices, but not for RF detectors (behind an SBS50 hub). I have found out why and will come back on this later after some testing.