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SimpliSafe Home Security System (Gen 3)

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · SimpliSafe · Security Systems & Alarms · ~$282.94 ($282.94 is SimpliSafe's own list price for its entry package, browser-rendered from simplisafe.com's package shop on 2026-08-21, with a 50% promotion to $141.44 running ('ENDS SUNDAY — 50% off any new system with professional monitoring'). Never treated as a live price. ⚠ THE KIT'S NAME IS THE PART THAT MOVED, AND IT MATTERS MORE THAN THE FIGURE. This record previously called it 'the 6-piece "The Starter" kit'. SimpliSafe now serves TWO DIFFERENT PACKAGE LINE-UPS AT THE SAME URL — reads minutes apart in the same session returned, on one hand, kits named The Foundation / The Starter / The Hearth / The Beacon with piece counts, and on the other, three packages named for outcomes: Break-In Detection, Intruder Deterrence and Complete Protection. The $282.94 / $141.44 pair sits on 'Break-In Detection' in the second line-up, whose enumerated contents are Base Station, Keypad, three Entry Sensors, a Motion Sensor and a Yard Sign. Both names are recorded here because a buyer arriving from this page may be shown either one, and a page that names only the retired kit sends them looking for something they cannot see.)

Compatibility

Protocols: WIFI^[6][7]

What it can do^[13]

• Alexa: Arm only — Alexa cannot disarm this system — and the integration itself is gated behind a paid monitoring plan.
• Google Home: Arm only — Google cannot disarm this system — and the integration itself is gated behind a paid monitoring plan.
• Home Assistant: Arms AND disarms, unlike the voice assistants. Two documented limits: sensor status is available only on V3 systems, and it polls once every 30 seconds, so states lag.

Some of these may need a paid plan — see Subscription reality below.

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^{[2][3][8][12][14][15]}

⚠ Works without a subscription: No — core features are paywalled.

• Free: Live camera video in the app, Remote arm and disarm from the app
• Behind a plan: Every smart-home integration, including Alexa and Google Home, Cellular network backup, Recorded video, 24/7 professional monitoring and emergency dispatch, Insurance discount and lifetime warranty (from $22.99/mo)
• Estimated 5-year subscription cost: ~$1379 at $22.99/mo — price verified 2026-08-21

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

Plans run Standard $22.99/mo · Core $32.99 · Pro $49.99 · Pro Plus $79.99, plus a $9.99 self-monitoring tier with camera recordings — every one of those five figures re-read at SimpliSafe's own support article on 2026-08-21 and unchanged. The monthly figure recorded here is the cheapest professionally monitored plan. ⭐ THE QUESTION THIS RECORD HAS CARRIED AS OPEN SINCE JULY IS NOW ANSWERED BY THE VENDOR, AND IT IS WHY coreFunctionWithoutPlan MOVES FROM unknown TO limited. The article now carries an 'Unmonitored' section that did not exist when this record was written: 'Some customers may choose to forego a monitoring plan and simply keep track of their system, and home, themselves. You still can access basic features without a plan - though you will need an internet connection to access these features.' So an unsubscribed system is not a brick, and SimpliSafe says so in its own words — limited rather than full, because the same page lists push notifications, SMS/text alerts, secret alerts and scheduled arming among the STANDARD PLAN's features, and 'Arm your system with Google Assistant or Alexa' among them too. ⚠ What is still not stated anywhere: whether an unsubscribed system pushes an alert when the siren actually goes off. 'Basic features' is not enumerated.

Maintenance reality

• Batteries: NiMH rechargeable backup (base station)
• Works without the internet: Partly — some of it keeps working and some of it does not. See the detail below.^[3]
• SimpliSafe states the base station holds up to 24 hours of backup power and switches to network backup automatically if Wi-Fi drops. The cellular radio is in the box but the service is plan-gated. Local siren and sensor alarming survive an internet outage; everything remote does not.

Security updates^[16]

SimpliSafe publishes no security-update support date for this model. That is a gap in what the manufacturer has published, not evidence either way — some makers declare a support period and some say nothing at all.

SimpliSafe publishes a support period and it is relative, UK-scoped, and tied to a device list this record cannot be matched to with certainty. Its Statement of Compliance under the UK PSTI Regulations (page last updated September 2024, document issued June 6 2024, signed by Jose I. Graziani, Senior Director of Firmware Engineering) declares a "Defined Support Period" of, verbatim, "At least 3 years from when the device first became available for sale on SimpliSafe.co.uk." Three things stop that becoming a date. It is a floor counted from a UK availability day SimpliSafe does not publish. The statement says of itself: "This Statement of Compliance is only applicable to Products sold in the UK." And it names five products by model number - Base Station [SSBS3], Wireless Indoor Camera [CM006], Wireless Outdoor Camera [CMOB1], Video Doorbell Pro [SSDB3], Wired Indoor Camera [SSCM1 and SSCM2] - none of which SimpliSafe's own US documentation states as the model number of the Gen 3 base station this record describes, so the match was left unestablished rather than assumed. On the US side, SimpliSafe documents how firmware reaches a Gen 3 system automatically and nowhere says for how long.

The catch

Every smart-home integration is behind a paid monitoring plan — Alexa and Google included — and even then neither can disarm the system, only arm it. Cellular backup is the same story: the radio ships inside the base station but stays inert without a plan. One thing we could not pin down and will not guess at: SimpliSafe's documentation never states plainly whether an unsubscribed system sends a push alert when the alarm triggers, which is the single most important question for anyone planning to self-monitor.

Who it's for

Households that intend to pay for monitoring and want a system that installs without tools. Anyone whose plan is to self-monitor for free, or who wants their alarm wired into an existing smart home, should read the subscription row first — this is where those two goals collide.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

1. [1] simplisafe.com/home-security-shop-packages, read in a rendering browser 2026-07-19 because the storefront is client-side rendered and returns no price nodes to plain fetches. "The Starter" 6-piece: $282.94 list, $141.44 at a 50% promotion. List price recorded as the durable figure. — vendor-page research (browser-rendered), verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Price
2. [2] support.simplisafe.com/articles/alarm-event-monitoring/what-are-the-service-plan-options — Standard $22.99, Core $32.99, Pro $49.99, Pro Plus $79.99, self-monitoring with camera recordings $9.99; unsubscribed users keep live video and app arm/disarm but lose monitoring, cellular backup, recordings and all integrations — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Subscription
3. [3] support.simplisafe.com — "Integrations require a residential or business monitoring plan"; the Alexa article states the skill "cannot be used to disarm your system through voice commands"; the Google Home article carries the same limitation. Gen 3 required for both. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-20
   Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility, Subscription, Works without the internet, SmartThings compatibility
4. [4] Apple is a direct vendor statement ("SimpliSafe does not integrate with Apple Home Kit at this time"). SmartThings is evidence of absence from both sides per 09 §3: SimpliSafe's integrations article omits it, and SimpliSafe is absent from partners.smartthings.com/supported-devices. — vendor-page and counterparty-source research, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: SmartThings compatibility, Apple Home compatibility
5. [5] home-assistant.io/integrations/simplisafe — core integration, Cloud Polling, exposes alarm control panel with arm AND disarm plus sensors, locks, siren and PIN management; requires a manual auth-code step against an undocumented cloud API — counterparty-source research, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
6. [6] FCC certification filings, which are the regulator's own records: base station FCC ID U9K-BS3001 transmits at 433.42 MHz; entry, motion, water and freeze sensors (U9K-ES1000 / MS1000 / WT1000 / FS1000) are all filed as 433 MHz Part 15 security transmitters. No Zigbee, Z-Wave or Thread. 'wifi' is listed in protocols because that is the base station's uplink; the proprietary sub-GHz sensor link has no protocol value in our taxonomy and is described here instead of being forced into one. — regulator-source research, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Protocols, Required hub or bridge
7. [7] csa-iot.org certified-products search returned no SimpliSafe entries; corroborated by SimpliSafe's own integrations documentation, which does not mention Matter anywhere — registry research, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Protocols
8. [8] SimpliSafe's plan-comparison table lists alarm texts, push and email alerts under paid tiers, but no support article states plainly whether an unsubscribed system notifies you when the alarm triggers. Surfaced in theCatch as an open question rather than resolved by inference, because it is the decisive fact for a self-monitoring buyer. — sourcing gap, recorded honestly, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Subscription
9. [9] simplisafe.com storefront, read in a rendering browser 2026-07-19 — seven kits listed and purchasable, from "The Foundation" (4-piece, $250.96 list) to "The Beacon" (10-piece, $733.90 list). Gen 3 launch year is not published in SimpliSafe's own support documentation, so soldFrom — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-07-19
   Backs: Market availability
10. [10] SimpliSafe support and monitoring pages operating normally — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Service status
11. [11] BQ-107 re-verification batch 36, 2026-08-20. Two axes re-read at primary sources, one attempted and refused. ✅ SUBSCRIPTION: support.simplisafe.com's service-plan article re-read in full — Pro Plus $79.99/mo · Pro $49.99 · Core $32.99 ("Our Most Popular Plan!") · Standard $22.99 · Self-Monitoring w/Camera Recordings $9.99 · Unmonitored free. Every figure this record publishes is unchanged. The free tier still gives exactly "Live video feed of your cameras from the SimpliSafe® App" and "Remotely arm/disarm your system with the SimpliSafe® App" and nothing else, which is precisely the pair recorded in `freeCapabilities`. ✅ HOME ASSISTANT re-read at home-assistant.io/integrations/simplisafe: "SimpliSafe home security (V2 and V3) systems", arm/disarm plus lock control and sensor status, "Sensor status is only available for SimpliSafe V3 systems and is updated once every 30 seconds". ⛔ MARKET AXIS NOT ADVANCED: simplisafe.com/home-security-shop-packages returned truncated, unreadable content on two separate attempts this pass, so the hardware price and package composition could not be re-read and keep their true earlier date. — vendor-and-counterparty re-verification (BQ-107 batch 36; placeholder replaced in place per BQ-218 R-4), verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Research status
12. [12] support.simplisafe.com, service plan options article — vendor-documentation research (BQ-107 re-verification; the hardware-price axis was attempted and could not be read), verified 2026-08-18
    Backs: Subscription
13. [13] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/simplisafe — Home Assistant's own integration document for this system (read 2026-08-20) — ecosystem integration document, plain fetch, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Capabilities
14. [14] support.simplisafe.com service-plan options article, re-read 2026-08-20 (BQ-107 batch 36): Pro Plus $79.99/mo, Pro $49.99, Core $32.99, Standard $22.99, Self-Monitoring with Camera Recordings $9.99, Unmonitored free. Paid plans include "Arm your system with Google Assistant or Alexa"; the Unmonitored tier is limited to "Live video feed of your cameras from the SimpliSafe® App" and "Remotely arm/disarm your system with the SimpliSafe® App". Pro Plus alone carries 24/7 Active Guard Outdoor Protection; Pro carries the overnight (8pm–6am) version; Core and Standard carry 24/7 emergency dispatch without Active Guard; Standard caps the system timeline at 7 days. — vendor-and-counterparty re-verification (BQ-107 batch 36), verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Subscription, Service status
15. [15] SimpliSafe's own package shop (simplisafe.com), read BROWSER-RENDERED 2026-08-21; monitoring plans re-read the same day at support.simplisafe.com/articles/alarm-event-monitoring/what-are-the-service-plan-options — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-21
    Backs: Price, Subscription, Market availability, Research status
16. [16] SimpliSafe, Inc., Statement of Compliance under the UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 (simplisafe.co.uk/legal/statement-of-compliance), read 2026-08-22; the page states "Last updated: September 2024" and "Date of issue: June 6, 2024". Verbatim: "Defined Support Period: At least 3 years from when the device first became available for sale on SimpliSafe.co.uk" and "This Statement of Compliance is only applicable to Products sold in the UK and is not intended to supplement any other aspects such as our standard product warranty." Products named: "SimpliSafe Base Station [SSBS3]", "Wireless Indoor Camera [CM006]", "Wireless Outdoor Camera [CMOB1]", "Video Doorbell Pro [SSDB3]", "Wired Indoor Camera [SSCM1 and SSCM2]". Signed Jose I. Graziani, Senior Director - Firmware Engineering. — first-party security-support sweep (BQ-192, method note 69 rungs a-c walked, outcome recorded whichever way it fell), verified 2026-08-22
    Backs: Security-update support period
17. [17] Record-keeping entry: this record's `none` cells were classified under the five-way absence sort, 2026-08-30 — internal, verified 2026-08-30

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