Should I Worry? Old Security System Detecting Heat

Home Security Systems Forum
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https://imgur.com/a/7MHCkfv

Our security system hasn’t been working for years, and the battery has been dead for about three years. Today, as I walked by it, the system suddenly started beeping and showed these messages:

“Supervision 9 2ND FL Heat”, “Supervision 8 2ND FL SMK DET”, “Low Batt 8 2ND FL SMK DET”, and “Low Batt 9 2ND FL Heat” (see the imgur link).

These are new messages from today. All the other ones have been there for a long time. Is this something to worry about? I told my dad, and he just turned off the alarm.

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A supervision alarm means the sensor isn’t talking to the system anymore. The batteries in the sensor are probably dead.

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@ingosi Yep, that’s right. Try resetting the system, and you should also change the batteries while you’re at it.

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It’s just the batteries in the smoke and heat detectors. If you’re not paying for the system and don’t care about using it for safety, you can ignore them.

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The smoke and heat detector on the second floor has dead batteries.

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Please tell me you have other working smoke detectors!