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If you're looking to retrofit existing alarms, get the Roost Smart Battery.

Our budget pick, the Roost Smart Battery ($ 35), is good for those who want to retrofit existing «dumb» smoke detectors to make them smart.

Our budget pick: The Roost Smart Battery will work in any smoke detector that uses a 9 - volt battery, and will send an alert to your smartphone when the alarm goes off.

DuBravac is referring to the Roost Smart Battery ($ 34.99), which we reviewed and rated 9/10 because of its utility and simplicity.

The Roost Smart Battery is an elegant and inexpensive solution to both of my problems: This $ 34.99 device is essentially a 9 - volt battery with Wi - Fi and some smarts built in; it not only will power your smoke detector for 5 years, but will send you an alert to your smartphone when it goes off.

Get the Roost Smart Battery if you're looking to inexpensively retrofit smoke detectors to make them smart.

The $ 35 Roost Smart Battery lets you monitor and control your everyday smoke detector from your smartphone.

However, if you don't want to spend more than $ 100 on a smoke detector, then check out the Roost Smart Battery.

The Roost Smart Smoke Alarm has LEDs to indicate the presence of smoke, carbon monoxide, and natural gas (hopefully not all at the same time).

The included Roost Smart Battery enables it to connect to your Wi - Fi network, and that's how it sends alerts to your smartphone if the alarm goes off.

Once in place and connected to Wi - Fi, the Roost Smart Garage Door Sensor can send you notifications if you forget to close your garage.

Each Roost Smart Battery you install gets a unique name, so you can tell which alarm is sounding off or which battery needs service (if it loses contact with your Wi - Fi network, for instance, or if it's nearing the end of its five - year life cycle).

At the time of this writing, Amazon was selling USI's 4 - in - 1 detector for $ 45 and the Roost Smart Battery for $ 25.

The Roost Smart Smoke Alarm RSA - 400, $ 80 (shown up top), detects the presence of natural gas — an industry first, according to Roost CEO Roel Peters — and carbon monoxide as well as the smoke from a smoldering fire or the flames from a fast - moving fire.

But the battery provides only backup power; the Roost Smart Smoke Alarm must be hardwired to your electrical system to operate.

At present, there is only one smart battery on the market: the Roost Smart Battery.

If your home loses power, the Roost Smart Battery won't be able to send alerts to your smartphone.

We gave the Roost Smart Battery high marks when it came to market late last year.

We'd call this a tie between the Leeo and the Roost Smart Battery, but we haven't put our hands on the second - generation Roost product yet.

The Roost Smart Battery will provide backup power in the event of a blackout, but its primary purpose is to connect to your Wi - Fi network and send emergency text messages to you and your contact list when the smoke alarm goes off.

As I mentioned up top, Roost partnered with Universal Security Instruments to build the Roost Smart Smoke Alarm.

You can put a Roost Smart Battery in just about any smoke detector and get nearly all of the benefits that the Roost Smart Smoke Alarm delivers: Alerts on your phone when the detector goes off, the phone number for your local first responders right alongside the alert, alerts sent to monitors you choose who might be able to take action if you're not around, and no more 3AM chirps from a dying smoke - detector battery (you'll get an alert on your phone long before then).

Save yourself the money and get a non-connected $ 30 to $ 40 combination sensor, or if you want to get smart with smoke detection, go with the $ 100 second - gen Nest Protect, or the retrofit $ 35 Roost Smart Battery.

Note: The Roost Smart Battery is now available for purchase, and my opinion has changed.

Installing a Roost Smart Battery will be a three - step process: Download the app to your smartphone, name the smoke detector it's going into, and then select your Wi - Fi network and provide its password.

Roost also announced that it intends to offer its own line of smoke alarms that will be bundled with its Roost Smart Battery.

Six Roost Smart Batteries would cost between $ 150 and $ 210 every five years.

You'll find more details about the Roost Smart Battery in our review and at GetRoost.com

If you're happy with your existing smoke detectors, but wish they had smart features, you can purchase the Roost Smart 9V Battery for $ 34.99 and install it into your alarms.

This hardwired alarm, which is simply a standard, «dumb» smoke detector with the Roost Smart 9V Battery installed, is around $ 40 cheaper than many of its top competitors.

The Roost Smart Battery, which is the same smart monitor used in the Roost RSA - 400, is actually easier to set up when purchased on its own, and it delivers the same fast, high - quality notifications.

The Roost Smart 9V Battery comes in a specially - designed foam package that makes syncing more straightforward.

Roel Peeters, the CEO & Co-Founder of Roost Smart Battery told us that the mission of the Roost team is to provide the ability for regular home users who may not be so tech savvy, to have the convenience and advantages of having a smart smoke and CO2 detector, without the complexity and headaches of typical Smart tech devices like Nest.

So, on top of retrofitting old alarms, you can buy a Roost Smart Smoke Alarm that can detect CO, all types of smoke (Roost uses a modified ionization sensor, called IoPhic, made by Universal Security Instruments), and natural gas, or you can get a cheaper smoke - only alarm.

If notifications when you are away from home are your main priority, a Roost Smart Battery is an excellent, inexpensive choice.

For instance, each new Hippo Home Insurance policyholder receives a Roost Smart Water Leak and Freeze Detector when they sign up for a Hippo Insurance policy.

Not exact matches

Roost's smart functions come as a battery that you install in any smoke alarm, or as a complete alarm with the battery already installed.

The Roost alarms are actually just standard alarms, but each comes with a Roost battery to add the smarts.

This addition to Roost's offerings gives you two more budget - friendly options for outfitting your home with smart smoke alarms.

If you are looking for a smart, wired interconnected alarms, First Alert's Onelink offers this, or Roost's new wired - alarms with Roost batteries will also interconnect with existing systems, although currently they have no battery - only options.

Both the Roost battery and the Leeo smart alerter offer this function.

At just $ 79.99, the Roost RSA - 400 Hardwired Smart Smoke / Fire / CO / Natural Gas Alarm is our pick for best value detector.

At the end of the day, the Roost RSA - 400 is a solid smart smoke and carbon monoxide detector.

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So you could say buying the Roost RSA - 400 is like buying USI's detector and getting the smart battery for free.

Roost impressed us last year with its Wi - Fi - enabled 9 - volt Smart Battery ($ 35, available at Amazon.com).

With Roost, you'll need to rely on IFTTT to tie it to other smart - home products, and there are only a handful of existing IFTTT recipes.

Roost's integration with other smart home systems is fairly limited.

However, the Wi - Fi smarts in the Roost make it an easy way to turn any smoke detector into a smart home device, and alert you from afar when it goes off.