My power went out at 3:00 am and wasn't restored until 11:00 am.
Less than a minute after the power went out, my SimpliSafe Base Station started announcing network trouble. Ok. But it kept announcing network trouble about every minute and I was trying to get to sleep.
I took out my phone and opened the SimpliSafe app in order to turn off the voice completely. (I've already had door chimes and entry announcements turned off as those get annoying as heck.* But I didn't mind the Armed and Off messages, which are in the "Status" category, which sadly also includes the endlessly repeating network trouble messages.
It wasn't easy to get through to the base station. I figured that was because the wifi router was down, and it only worked with direct communication from my phone to the base station when it would try to use the router first. But eventually I did get through and shut the messages off. And was able to get back to sleep. (I was in deep panic for about 10 minutes worried that somehow I would not be able to do this, but persistence paid off.)
(*One of the curious but unfortunate things is if you have door chimes or announcements enabled for any entry sensor, you have to get some announcement or chime (you can choose which) for every entry sensor. So I couldn't just have an announcement for the back door, which I hardly ever use and might like to have such indication, without also having an announcement or chime for the front door, which is what gets annoying as heck. I tried just having a chime on the front door and decided that was little less annoying than the announcement.)
To avoid having this situation happen again, I'm going to have to keep all the voice messages off, and I miss some of them.
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