For a few years now I have been searching for an ideal replacement of my 6 Nest Protect smoke alarms. Based on my research it appears that the recently announced SC5 from First Alert is the intended replacement (by Google) for the Nest Protect. A youtube video by First Alert also showed that you can mix and match Nest Protect with SC5 enabling the replacement of the detectors as they expire.
First Alert SC5 Hardwire Smart Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm
SKU: FSMCO600NVACCL1
Since I am mostly happy with Nest Protect’s features, the SC5 seems to be an ideal replacement given they are supposedly equivalent in functionality… BUT… do they integrate into Home Assistant or will they have the same support issues the Nest Protects have?
So am interested in the same question! Would love to start bringing (or replacing) the few cloud devices I have to local operation only.
Was very disappointed but not shocked that Google decided to abandon the platform. Fortunately did not use HA for anything related other than the Thermostats (which is another topic for discussion).
I just replaced one of my Nest smokes with the SC5 - and it seemed to work fine. It came with an adapter so no rewiring and it mounted right onto the existing bracket, had to download yet another app to install but it all went smoothly - it did keep trying to insist I use chrome as the browser on my android phone but eventually by switching to “desktop” it seemed to go through. I think it’s now part of the Nest wireless interconnect but have not tested yet.
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@erktrek Can the SC5 connect to HA without the homebridge workaround or the hacky integration?