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First Alert’s new smoke detector will work with Google Home as Nest shuts down the Nest Protect detector line. On March 28, Google Nest announced two major changes to its Google Home lineup of smart ...

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 in a ...

After around a decade of Nest Protect Smoke & CO Alarms dominating the market, Google is moving away from the established platform to partner with First Alert. The company announced today that it ...

There are plenty of common problems with Google Home devices. Yet, these largely don't apply to the Google Nest Protect smoke and CO alarms, which, according to many, work well. Though it was ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google has discontinued producing the second-generation Nest Protect connected smoke detector. Existing Nest Protect units will ...

There’s never a bad time to invest in home fire safety, and the best place to start is checking your home’s smoke alarms to ensure they’re working properly. These invaluable devices protect you and ...

SimpliSafe is taking a much more affordable approach to smart smoke and carbon monoxide detection with one listener device that detects alarms. Incidentally, this is a familiar Google Nest feature ...

Google is revamping its smart home lineup, ending production on two of its devices in favor of integrations with third-party manufacturers. First, it will sunset the Nest Protect smoke & CO alarms.

There is literally nothing more annoying than a faulty smoke detector. One that is completely broken and doesn't go off in a fire could be called annoying, but I'd call it a hazard first. That's bad.

When you move into or buy a new home, no one hands you a guide to how the smoke detectors work. They “chirp,” which really means shriek loudly, and you occasionally have to put new batteries in them.

Google introduced the first-gen Nest Protect smart home accessory in 2013. The company released the second-gen model in 2015, which it has just discontinued. If you like Google’s smart home ecosystem, ...