- There are a lot of boring, smart home products out there.
Things that you never use, you install it
and you totally forget about it until two years later,
get a notification on your phone,
you be like, "Oh yeah, I forgot I had that thing."
And one of the things that fit that description
is a smart smoke detector.
Now I gotta tell you, they are life saving
and they are extremely important,
but you are spending more money for a smart smoke detector
and you really gotta get some value out of them.
Now, unfortunately, there are not a lot
of smart smoke detectors that work with HomeKit.
But today we're gonna look at one from Firstlink
called the Onelink Safe and Sound.
And I gotta tell you this thing is not boring anymore.
This your first time here.
My name is Eric.
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And like I mentioned, this is a HomeKit product
but this also features Lady A aka Alexa.
Actually, this has Alexa built right into it.
So if you do use Alexa as a voice first personal assistant
you can talk to this just like any other, Echo Dot
or Echo.
Alexa, what's 7 is million divided by 12.
- [Alexa] 7 million divided by 12 is 583,333.3333.
- But if you do wanna use just HomeKit exclusively
you can do that,
also you can mute the Alexa altogether.
That's not where the fun stops.
Now this is a intelligence smoke detector
and carbon monoxide detector.
Has a customizable nightlight
which I'll show you in a few minutes.
And as you can tell by the speaker grill
this has a builtin speaker.
So you can play music through Lady A, from Pandora
Amazon Music, Spotify and any other Alexa services
but that's not where the fun stops.
This now has AirPlay 2.
Which means that you can stream music
from your iOS devices
to all your AirPlay 2 speakers throughout the entire house.
You can have your HomePods playing at the same time.
Your smoke detectors are playing
while your Sonos speakers are all playing the same music
throughout the entire house.
One of the things that I love about this
is that you just mount these to the ceiling
where you have wired smoke detectors already.
It's all built into this one device.
You don't have to worry about power.
They're always on,
always ready to go and they sound pretty good.
Now doesn't sound like a HomePod.
You can't beat the sound of a HomePod, but for the price
for the size, for the location, this sounds really good.
(pop music)
♪ We head to the sky its alright ♪
♪ I went to it and fly its all right ♪
♪ If we are crashing down again ♪
♪ Pieces of love its alright ♪
♪ Scattered in mind its all right ♪
♪ You've given me a light again ♪
The installation I gotta tell you, this is awesome.
Since you're already have hard wires in your house,
more than likely,
and you already have a smoke detector there
they do include two adapters that fit a lot
of different smoke detectors
for the wires that are already there.
So this is just adapter that plugs into the existing plug
and then plugs right into the device.
And that made it so much easier.
I got this thing installed in less than two minutes.
First thing you wanna do is turn off the power of course,
you just simply unscrew the old one
unscrew the plate.
Put in the new plate
with the same screws, put in the adapter,
plug it into here and twist it back on and you are done.
It does interconnect with other smoke detectors.
My other smoke detectors are some no name knocked off
and the interconnection did work.
Unfortunately when I triggered
one of the other smoke detectors
I did not get an alert on my phone,
but the alarm did go off on the First Alert,
smoke detector, the Safe and Sound.
I just didn't get a notification, which is fine.
As long as the smoke detectors are all going off
in the house, that is the purpose of the interconnection
so that worked for me.
(whirring)
(beeps)
This also has an internal 10 year battery.
It is not changeable, you cannot replace it.
The only thing you can do in 10 years
and when that battery dies it is to replace the entire unit.
It might be insane to me,
that's awfully expensive and you're right.
A $200 item you don't wanna last just 10 years.
Unfortunately, a lot of states
and counties and jurisdictions
are now enforcing that 10 year smoke detector rule
where you have to replace them every 10 years
and in all honesty, that is great for safety.
If they do go bad, so after 10 years,
you do want to replace it
unfortunately these things are quite expensive
at $200 but the only option currently
is to replace the entire unit at 200 bucks
so, hopefully they come down in price a little bit
but currently, that's the only option,
you gotta buy a new one.
(spray hisses)
(alarm blares)
That was fast.
This also had voice announcements.
So if it does set off the smoke detector,
it will let you know where that smoke is detected
and let you know to evacuate.
It's not the first thing that gets sounded.
You do get the alarm that goes off first
and maybe 10 seconds into it
it will announce where that smoke is coming from.
(alarm blares drowns out conversation)
- [Alexa] Evacuate, there's fire in the kitchen.
Evacuate. (alarm blares)
- [Child] Stop it.
(alarm blares drowns out conversation)
- [Alexa] Silence the alarm.
- I wasn't able to do a real life test
with the carbon monoxide, but in the testing
it also has that voice prompt feature
for carbon monoxide.
(alarm blares)
- [Alexa] Evacuate!
Evacuate!
There's carbon monoxide in the kitchen.
The testing is complete.
- And so it's really nice.
They say some people respond better
to voice rather than the alarm.
I don't know about you.
I hear an alarm and I'm up and out the door
in two seconds, but maybe for other people
for my kids, for my wife, maybe that's better.
So I'm glad that this device has both.
Now, when it comes to the nightlight,
I really liked that it's exposed to the home app.
You can change it's color, the brightness,
all through the home app, plus you can automate it.
So if you wanna trigger a door to turn on the light
a certain color or a motion sensor
you can do all that through the Home app.
You also have a setting
in the First Alert app that you can have auto brightness
but that's all based of time of day.
So it's gonna be brighter during the day
and lighter at night.
I would like to see
maybe if it picked up motion, it would be brighter
but there's no motion detector in this.
So I don't see how it's possible.
You would have to use like a HomeKit app
or HomeKit motion sensor to do that, which worked.
I did test that and that works great also.
Now, when I did try to connect this
I did have issues with connectedness with HomeKit.
I did eventually have to call customer service
multiple times one for the HomeKit
and one for the AirPlay 2.
I don't know why it was so difficult to add this
to HomeKit.
It was easy to add it, but I was having issues.
It would say that I would have to go
into the First Alert app and give it access
to the Home account, which already had access.
So I'm not quite sure what the confusion was.
They were able to walk me through a reset,
which I did by myself too,
but they did the exact same thing and it worked.
So maybe they did something
in the background that I just don't know
but they did get it up and running,
works great in the HomeKit.
And then later on, I realized it did not have AirPlay 2.
So I had to call them back again.
They had to let me know
that they're going to send me the new firmware update
which took about 20, 25 minutes to get that update.
And I got AirPlay 2 and it works great.
So I gotta tell you, this gets a two thumbs up from me.
I am pressed with this thing.
It is a little pricey around $200.
I've seen it as high as like 250
as low as 150 during Prime Day hopefully.
They will have more available
for prime day coming up like two weeks.
If that is available, definitely check out pricing.
I'll leave a link down below
cause at 150, these things are a steal.
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I'm out.
♪ Nothing can break me. ♪