Gadgetory

there's no real reason you need a smoke alarm to be fast right fire safety isn't something that needs to be prompt if you feel that way then you should absolutely go ahead and buy the one link by First Alert Wi-Fi smoke and co alarm the thing is the smoke alarm itself isn't bad the hardware here is fine First Alert has a long pedigree of doing this and that shows it's very responsive on all of our smoke tests the alarm was going off in sync or earlier than the other smoke alarms we were testing it against but you're not paying a hundred and twenty dollars for this thing in order to get a smoking carbon monoxide detector you can get those for thirty dollars for forty dollars you can even get ones that talk for that much the reason you're paying the premium is for the smarts and the smarts on this thing just aren't there yet ninety seconds this thing takes 90 seconds to deliver a push notification really all you can do with voice commands is ask it if the smoke alarm or carbon monoxide alarm has detected anything if it has I'd hope you'd get a push notification so why would you need a voice alert to do the same thing the other smart feature I was excited about is that it works with the dumb hardwired smoke alarms in your house so in other words in theory you only need to replace one smarten all the rest of them except like with the normal push alerts it takes forever for that to happen so look the hardware here works and once the app gets a few updates this could actually be a pretty good device but right now it's really not it can detect smoke it can detect carbon monoxide but so can machines that cost half the price