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Google Retires Nest Protect After a Decade, But There’s a New Alarm on the Way

Google has officially retired one of its oldest and most well-known smart home products: the Nest Protect. Instead of giving the smart smoke detector a long-overdue update, Google is partnering with ...
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Nest Protect finally gets added to the Google Home app

The Nest Protect smart smoke and CO2 alarm has just been added to the Google Home app in Public Preview. Rather than using the old Nest app, Nest Protect users can now monitor and control their smoke ...
9to5google

Nest Protect now (barely) shows up in Google Home app, years after it was promised

The Nest Protect smoke detector is one of the few products that hasn’t been renewed under Google’s umbrella, and beyond that it hasn’t even been integrated into this new era, as it still doesn’t ...
Forbes

Google Discontinues Nest Protect Smart Smoke Alarm, Smart Lock

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 ...
CNET

Google Nest Shuts Down Smoke Detector Sales, Partners With First Alert

On March 28, Google Nest announced two major changes to its Google Home lineup of smart devices. First, it will end sales of its Nest Protect smoke detector, which is featured on our list of ...
The Verge

The Google Home app will soon support the Nest Protect

The smoke and CO alarm is finally coming to the Home app, along with increased functionality for smart locks connected to Google Home via Matter The smoke and CO alarm is finally coming to the Home ...
9to5google

Google Store lists & promotes 3rd-party Nest Protect replacement

Earlier this year, Google announced it was discontinuing the Nest Protect. The intended smoke and carbon monoxide alarm replacement from First Alert is now listed on the US and Canadian Google Store.
Android Authority

Google beefs up Home with Nest Protect and expanded Matter smart lock support

Nest Protect compatibility comes to the Google Home Public Preview. Google’s also expanding Home support for third-party Matter smart locks. These new features are available on Android now, with iOS ...
VentureBeat

Nest Protect: A smart, talking smoke and CO alarm that you can quiet down by waving

“It’s 4 a.m. and what the hell is that beeping?!” If you haven’t been rudely awaken by your smoke alarm’s dying battery cries yet, just give it time. For such essential and potentially life-saving ...
CNN

The Google Nest Protect smoke detector is alarmingly good

We’ve all experienced that annoyance: You’re cooking bacon on Sunday morning and the smoke alarm goes off. How convenient would it be to yell, “Bacon!” and have the alarm shut off? We’re not there yet ...
Ars Technica

Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock

Google acquired Nest in 2014 for a whopping $3.4 billion but seems increasingly uninterested in making smart home hardware. The company has just announced two of its home gadgets will be discontinued, ...