I've been using 4 of the combined smoke/co First Alert Onelink for the last year or two coupled with the Insteon Smoke Bridge to turn all the lights on, get email notification etc, and that's all been fine up to now.
Now I have an Elk M1 and (think) I want to switch to using the Elk smoke/heat devices instead as Elk is battery backed, can dial out etc. The Elk sensors though are not CO detectors.
These are the questions going through my mind, and I'd appreciate any guidance or advice on what to do.
If I switch to Elk, I'll replace the First Alert devices as I don't need twice as many smokes, but now I need CO. I could link the CO detectors to Elk, but then it means either adding the GE wireless transceiver to Elk (I already have Elk wireless) and using something like a TX-6310. I could do that but adding another wireless device to Elk, not ideal, just for that is it? Cost is several hundred for transceiver and devices.
I could replace the combined smoke/CO's I have with CO only Onelink devices such as the CO511B and then carry on using Insteon for CO only. Then it's only when the power is out that I don't get the CO alerts. Maybe that's ok. Cost perhaps two hundred.
Any other solutions? Leave them all in for double layer protection and deafen the hell out of the family when they go off?
Now I have an Elk M1 and (think) I want to switch to using the Elk smoke/heat devices instead as Elk is battery backed, can dial out etc. The Elk sensors though are not CO detectors.
These are the questions going through my mind, and I'd appreciate any guidance or advice on what to do.
If I switch to Elk, I'll replace the First Alert devices as I don't need twice as many smokes, but now I need CO. I could link the CO detectors to Elk, but then it means either adding the GE wireless transceiver to Elk (I already have Elk wireless) and using something like a TX-6310. I could do that but adding another wireless device to Elk, not ideal, just for that is it? Cost is several hundred for transceiver and devices.
I could replace the combined smoke/CO's I have with CO only Onelink devices such as the CO511B and then carry on using Insteon for CO only. Then it's only when the power is out that I don't get the CO alerts. Maybe that's ok. Cost perhaps two hundred.
Any other solutions? Leave them all in for double layer protection and deafen the hell out of the family when they go off?