First Alert’s new intelligent smoke alarm is a Nest protection replacement

The safety manufacturer has launched this week a new range of smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that will work with Google Home. Follow google Decision to stop your nest Protect Smart Smoke AlarmThe company announced that it is associated with First Alert on the First alarm Smart Smoke & Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alert.

The new alarms will work with the First Alert and Google Home applications, but not with other Smart Home platforms. They will also be Compatible with existing nest alarms.

Ryan Park, principal director of products in Resideo, alertsaid The penis Let them interconnect the Nest weaving communication protocol (which uses threads) to ring all compatible alarms when you are triggered. The notification system may also include all the first unconnected alert alarms that you may have installed.

The new Smart Smoke & Co Smart First Alert alarms will cost $ 129.99 and will be available in wired or battery-powered options later in the United States and Canada. They are now available for pre -order to Firstalert.com.

The nest protects alarms for 10 years against the date of manufacturing. They were launched for the first time in 2013, so many owners (myself included) could soon replace theirs. Park says they have been designed for easy hardware replacement so that users protect nests “can transparently replace their devices”.

The new first alert alarms have several of the same features found on the Nest Protect. These include automatic security checks, an “early warning warning” which sends voice alerts and applications before an alarm is triggered, alerts when an alarm is triggered and the possibility of silence of the alarms of the first alert and Google Home applications.

The range offers an option broadcast and powered by battery, both with emergency batteries. The application will send you low battery warnings, so you should not get these chirping at 2 am.

Unlike protection, the first alert alarms will not work as a presence sensor for the Home & Away function of Google Home or the Comport of the Protect Nightlight Protection Function. And although they look like the nest protecting, they unfortunately do not have the same elegant design. However, Google says they can trigger a live flow from your Nest safety cameras in the domestic application when an alarm sounds.

New alarms use Precision detection of the first alert – Advanced detection technology that uses photoelectric detection. They work on Wi-Fi to connect to Google Home and First Alert Apps. The existing nest soon protects appear in the Google Home application.

The new alarm compatible on Google is hot on the heels of the launch of the competitor Kidde of a Intelligent smoke alarm that works with the ring to these this year. THE Kidde Smart Smoke Alarm with ring ($ 54.97) and the Kidde Smart Smoke and CO Alarm with Ring ($ 74.97) are cable alarms with battery and will be launched in April at Home Depot. These connect exclusively to the Ring application via Wi-Fi.

First Alert has an existing line of Onelink smoke and co alarms With Wi-Fi connectivity. However, it deleted its models that worked with Apple house,, Amazon Alexa and Google Home some time ago.

Park says that the current Onelink product range will be interrupted over time in favor of new models. The company also manufactures Z-Wave smoke and an alarm that works with Annular alarm and other platforms, which will continue to be sold.

It’s great to see smarter smoke alarm options; It is a space that has really not seen a viable competitor for the Nest Protect on the American market. However, this owner approach is frustrating, especially now that Matter is here, which is designed to facilitate the integration of manufacturers with several platforms of smart homes.

Smoke alarms are Part of the materialBut none of the recently announced models is compatible with the new Smart Home standard. Resideso, owner of the first alertis part of the Connectivity Standards Alliance which oversees the material. The company recently published a smart thermostat that works with material. I asked if there was a plan to make the new of the smoke alarms compatible.

Correction, March 28: An earlier version of this article destroyed the detection technology of the first alarm of alert. He uses photoelectric detection, not an ionization and photoelectric combination.