The new alarms will work with the First Alert and Google Home apps but not with any other smart home platforms. They will also be compatible with existing Nest Protect alarms. Ryan Park, senior ...

If you have a fire emergency, it’s convenient to have a working smoke detector. However, can a smart smoke detector take it a ...

Here’s how it works. The best smart smoke detectors go beyond sounding an alarm inside your house— they can also instantly send an alert to your smartphone so you can call emergency services.

Google’s Nest Protect is being discontinued, as is the Nest x Yale Smart Door Lock, as part of a move to build a platform “that all device makers and developers can use,” the company told me ...

The popular products will be replaced by new models from First Alert and Yale.

Google is doing away with its Nest Protect smoke alarms and partnering with First Alert to manufacture a newer, more modern ...

Following the announcement that Google Nest will stop manufacturing its Nest Protect Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms, First ...

I'm eager to test it, and it may be an alternative if you'd like to wait for a smart detector. Our smoke detection test chamber lets us test how quickly each model raises an alarm when smoke ...

The First Alert smart, two-in-one alarm can connect with Nest Protect Smoke & CO Alarms, and if one alarm sounds, all connected and compatible alarms​ ​will alert families to ...

Nest launched the 2nd gen Protect a year before it became part of Google. Like all smoke detectors, the Nest Protect comes ...