Hi all,
I know I can sound paranoid - I am concerned about overnight printing, not because the prints can fail but because there is a tiny chance that the printer can catch fire. I know H2D has a flame detection system but I am not sure I can hear the alarm it sends when asleep, the printer is located on a different floor from my bedroom.
I am looking for some setup that automatically shuts down the machine when heavy smoke is detected. Has anyone tried to set up something like this?
EDIT: I just read about “thermal runaway protection” that is built in and turned on in most printers’ firmware. H2D is probably not an outlier but can anyone can confirm this? Again I know this is my paranoia but I can’t rest assured with the thoughts that the house can burn down.
I haven’t done it myself but I think it would be pretty simple if you already have home automation. I use Hubitat myself. Hubitat lets you write routines with any “if then, that” you may need. I just looked an there are several z-wave smoke detectors on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Z-Wave-Detector-Carbon-Monoxide-Generation/dp/B08FFB233Y/
If you had the printer plugged in to a smart outlet / plug you could write a routine that if the smoke alarm goes off it turns off the outlet.
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If the machine is producing enough smoke that a fire alarm can go off then it turning off isn’t going to magically stop said fire due to the temperature needed to cause the aforementioned fire in the first place.
The fire would at that point be self-sustaining either way and not really something an instant shut-down would resolve.
