Starting Off One of the things that has bothered me quite severely, is that I was not able to get my Google Nest Protect (Smoke alarm) into Homey. This isn’t necessarily Homey’s fault. It’s just Google being Google, and they love refusing to make Local API’s available for their devices. After a bi…

Hi @Herazio . It would be awesome if I get this to work. I will try this tomorrow but I have already a question. Will this also work for the battery operated ones? Rogier

Yep! I actually use those myself. The Protects (No matter battery or AC operated) are registered towards the Google Home cloud. You should normally be able to see them in the script editor. Happy coding!

Hi @Herazio , It works. Can’t wait to set my house on :fire: for the ultimate test :rofl: [1000001369] Great tutorial. Thanks a lot.

Just a quick FYI. I tested the flow today with an actual live test and I saw that my Homey didn’t react towards the change of state. I found out that there’s some debug tools in Google Home and they showed me this when the alarm was sounding: [INFO] Automatisering gestart door: [apparaat niet gevon…

Thanks. I will change that tomorrow. Fyi, one time I saw that the state on one of my AVD buttons on my tablet was ‘active’ (red dot with exclamation mark) while at the same time on my phone it wasn’t. Rogier

This doesn’t work…my google home can’t find the virtual smoke detector

Good work. I will give this a try. One question though. What is the benefit of having smoke alarms connected to Homey? I mean the Nest Protect App will let you know if one of the sensors becomes active, even if you are away from home.

[image] Peter_Bittner: What is the benefit of having smoke alarms connected to Homey? That all depends on what other devices you have connected to Homey. But a few things I can think of are: Turing on the lights on your escape route Unlocking the door (if you are home) Playing sound through…

Thanks. I have implemented the lights idea,. The others are good ideas also but I don’t yet have the capabilities.

Nice tutorial, but the two favorite flows in Homey, do not show up in my Google Home. Not even after a “Sync all my devices” command for Google Home.

[Tutorial]: Adding your Google Nest Protect to Homey

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Sorry, missed your reply somehow

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