I like everything about NEST Protect by google except that you need to dispose of it after 10 years which seems such a waste.
I was looking for alterinatives and came across owl. It seems the perfect fit except maybe the price but that’s okay.
As it has homekit support, does anyone know if this will work in HA?
I really like the specs
Also interested.
Anyone got this working in Ha?
I found a review on youtube from 6 months ago which was very informative. The initial test did not give off a smoke alarm but subsequent ones did. The interconnected feature did not work though which is concerning… We also need someone to test Home Assistant Compatibility. I also noticed they added a post saying they are planning matter support which is promising.
The price tag at the owl is high when you buy multiple for your home. I am currently looking into the Livy Protect, it can do the same for 20% of the price. Livy Protect with Smoke Detector - Order Now
Apparently you need some kind of business account to get mqtt working so I requested one today.
micro usb and no actual homekit or local api support yet.
I’ll wait for the owl or something better to come along.
but how hard can it be to capture the API values? The google nest protect integration does the same AFAIK. I requested a test device from Livy, let’s see if they deliver. The price is a bargain if it were to work.
Any updates on this? Looked into Owl but non local makes it a hard pass for me. That said motion, temp/humidity and smoke means a device like that would theoretically get rid of 2 other device classes and the fact it uses standard alarm wiring is a huge plus.
Homekit and matter support is local. I would think this would work great as a homekit connection to home assistant. Someone just needs to take the plunge and try it.
Shipping to the US 20$ which is almost the price of the item so unfortunately won’t be trying it. They say HK support is on the way meaning it will work with HA using the HK controller.
For homekit connected folks, I just set up my first Owl Wired and it appears to be working great.
Added via apple home, then removed from apple home per this workflow and the integration entity became available in HA Homekit Devices. (I already have other HA Homekit devices).
Exposed 5 sensors, all responding normally: Owl Smoke, Owl CO, Owl Motion, Owl Temp, Owl Humidity.
Amazing! Thank you very much for testing!
Just wondering if anyone else has had any luck the Owl Wired? I’m on the market to replace 8 Nest Protects
Owl confirmed they have a native Home Assistant integration that is in testing.
Most definitely, native Home Assistant integration is currently in testing and should be available next month.
Best,
Owl Support
That’s amazing, although I doubt it will be a local integration
They have homekit support already (local) they were working on matter (also local)
Why would you not think the HAss integration would be local?
Since my good old reliable original wired Nest Protects are all expired, and one started beeping endlessly and I had to remove it, I am very intersted hearing more about the Owl and HA integration. It sounds like it should get auto-discovered via HomeKit Device - or maybe using Matter to get it in HA. The Owl site says they start shipping next month. I like all the sensors it has and looks much better than anything else I have seen in the market since the original Nest Protect that Google successfully killed.
Received the Owl Wired Wifi smoke detector and installed it yesterday. For the device to connect to the Wifi you do have to go through the initial setup with their app. Afterwards I removed the device from my account in the app, rebooted the device and after about 2 minutes it appeared in HA under the Homekit integration. I put in the pairing code (it’s on the 2nd page in the manual) and device is up and running in HA.
I banned internet access at the router for the device and everything works great.
Note: If you run a manual test on the device it will show up as Smoke detected on the sensor in HA. Keep that in mind if you set up an automation that notify your family in case of smoke detection.
I got my owl a couple of weeks ago, and I would not recommend it.
1:The plastic install ring for it wouldn’t fit my existing ceiling box.
2: the app for it crashes frequently and it can take multiple attempts at toggling something like motion detection before it will take effect. Motion shows as being turned off in the app right now but is still actually turned on and reported to hass.
3: the alarm level is not as loud as the nest and there are no voice warnings for it like the nest had
4:the motion detection for the path light is bad. The light tends to turn on too early and then turn off right before you pass under it
5: it initially wouldn’t pair to hass, as the code sticker that came with it was the wrong code. I had to contact support to get the correct one
6: after pairing it to hass, it still doesn’t pass everything to hass, such as battery level, or “sound” events that show in the app but not in hass.
7: there is an electric like staticy noise coming from it, more noticeable when the motion light is on, that sounds like a noisy ac/dc transformer.
8: worst of all it started chirping randomly (the same chirp the smoke detectors do when low on battery). The battery is not low and it is hard wired and nothing in the app tell me as to why this is happening.
It is not a suitable replacement to the nest for me in its current state.
