What does everyone buy for new alarms? I put in new ones from Costco over the summer, First Alert hardwire/backup/connected ones. I think they
work but they are extremely sensitive...false alarms for humidity, miscooked food, possibly aerosol spray like deodorant spray that got away? kind of things. Maybe this is just how alarms are now? The issue mainly for me is the alarms are out of easy reach to silence. One went off this morning and wouldn't stop after being silenced, I had to climb up on top of furniture and get it off the ceiling completely.
With that limitation, I'm wondering if I should go to smart alarms. Nest Protects were the gold standard and really what I should've bought day one, but I didn't and now they aren't made anymore.
It looks like First Alert took over what was leftover from Nest, but the reviews on them are rather poor.
Kidde has a similar product without the Nest integration, but again, not great user reviews. There appears to be a third major option: t
hese new Place products (made by Gentex) seem to also be intended to be a Nest replacement, but are bulky and imperfect compared to Nest... but generally seem to be better-received online than the other two from people already in that world. Less reviews/reports of things like false alarms and stuff... some people have gotten bad units out of box, but simply replaced them and done.
I think the basic question I have is whether or not smart alarms are worth it and work well. The upsides to me are control from the ground instead of a ladder, and in theory, to be able to know if something bad happened in my house without actually being there.