Nest Protect

I've got battery Nest Protects and use the HACS integration. Haven't had a single issue in the few years I've had HA going. Only downside is that it's cloud reliant.

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I got nest ones and they are exposed to homeassistant via starling and HomeKit. Works good so far. But would love to move away from Google someday.

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Nest. They were fine until Google assimilated them. PITA to get into HA and I'm slowly replacing my Protects as they age out (thermostats are already gone.) Why can't Google just play nice with others?

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The Nest Protect I think is pretty dang good, just wish it was less "Google". You need a HACS integration and to extract valid Google session tokens in order for it to work, and I believe I'm unable to mute the alarm or disable the "heads up" from HASS. I love the heads up feature... It gives you a less-obnoxious vocal warning that the alarm is about to sound and gives you 5-10 seconds to disarm it if it's going to go off. Wish I didn't have to use the nest app for that. Also, having the battery reporting and self testing features is so useful

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The malfunctions that led to them going off constantly with no way to hush them that led to all the sledgehammer and burial videos. Or the fact they self-hushed in the presence of heat or fire b/c they interpreted it as “waving at it”. Or being bricked after firmware updates or going unresponsive suddenly and never coming back.

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… today, I found a huge number of log entries in the DNS log like this one: > [INFO] 172.30.32.1:54013 - 60849 "A IN czfe85-front01-iad01.transport.home.nest.com.local.hass.io. udp 87 false 1232" NXDOMAIN qr,aa,rd 76 0.000112861s And the Host log had thousands of lines like this one: > 2025-11-19 08:30:02.844 homeassistant systemd-journald[113]: Suppressed 16774 messages from docker.service After disabling the ha-nest-protect integration, CPU and network traffic dropped to pre-incident levels and the log entries stopped appearing. ### What version of this integration (ha-nest-protect) has the …

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Re-implemented https://github.com/chrisjshull/homebridge-nest/ repository's support for Home/Away state in Nest. Added required support for protobuf and http2

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That’s a good question. This is one of those edge cases like the Nest Protect, where there’s no great way with home assistant but there is a working Homebridge plugin. If you understand code, with current AI tools, it’s probably not that hard to create a custom integration based off of a HB plugin, but it can’t be too easy or someone probably would have done it by now for the genie. I do run HB as an HA addon for my nest protect. Good luck if you decide to tackle it!

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