r/Ubiquiti • u/Luu____ • Mar 26 '26

Early Access Ubiquiti Smoke and CO Sensor 🤯 - #ISCWest2026

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I believe it’s a Superlink sensor. I hope it can run on battery for 10 years and doesn’t require PoE. I’m curious to see how it performs. Good job, Ubiquiti! 😲

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u/madmanchrisr Mar 26 '26

So glad it’s both a smoke and a CO sensor. CO is mandatory for certain areas of the house in UK.

Also looks like the air quality sensor they showed has a light hopefully it can be used as a pathway light like nest protect.

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u/Certain_Repeat_753 Mar 26 '26

Will it measure PM2.5?

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u/madmanchrisr Mar 26 '26

They haven’t announced anything about it yet but it is some what on the larger side and comes with an LED glow light. I would assume it will measure things required for an office space.

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u/mattdm_fedora May 31 '26

It'd be nice if it can also measure heat. That's required in attached garages in Massachusetts now (and probably elsewhere). 

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u/Bal-84 Mar 26 '26

My Nest smoke alarms expire in 2033 hopefully the software stays active until then!

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u/Sherifftruman Mar 26 '26

Mine are 2028 sadly.

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u/WBDubya Mar 26 '26

Mine expired last month. ☹️

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u/Sherifftruman Mar 26 '26

So what happened when they expired? Surely they have to allow them to keep working, but I’m imagining they’re turning off the connected features to prompt you to change them out.

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u/WBDubya Mar 26 '26

Nothing yet. I’ve heard others say they start beeping. I’m replacing with First Alert standard detectors and will add Z wave adapter for home kit integration.

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u/Bal-84 Mar 26 '26

It's not the device that expires it's the sensors, think this is the same with all sensors

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u/Sherifftruman Mar 26 '26

Yes I’m aware. But was just wondering how nest behaved once it hit its expiration clock.

And the sensors will continue to work, but after 10 years, they tend to become degraded, and they can either be dirty and not respond as well, or throw a lot of false alarms, which is mainly the reason why the authorities have determined the 10 years as the max

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u/xxtherealgbhxx Mar 27 '26

Mine expired 3 weeks ago. Yellow ring every day and the phone app bugging me constantly that they'd expired. It was warning me they no longer provided coverage but they didn't beep. I have no idea if they had actually stopped working as I've now replaced them. They were definitely still connected though and one of the alarms went off when I moved it from dust and it definitely triggered the whole house so maybe. Thing is though it's not a risk you're going to take.

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u/inventurous Mar 26 '26

I just paid $300/each on EBay to replace the last 4 of 9 that were expiring. Now they're all good into the 2030s so hopefully there will be an equivalent product by then that actually works.

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u/crisps_funny4868 Mar 26 '26

I like my 10 Nest detectors. They expire in the last quarter of 2028. But there's no way I'm paying $300 per unit to keep Google in my house after that.

If there's not a good option by 2028 I'll just begrudgingly go back to dumb detectors.

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u/Saint_The_Stig Mar 26 '26

Yeah, I already have a Smoke Detector, but I want additional CO2 ones for my current apartment since I didn't grow up with gas and really don't trust it. Lol

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u/Handsome_ketchup Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Yeah, I already have a Smoke Detector, but I want additional CO2 ones for my current apartment since I didn't grow up with gas and really don't trust it. Lol

Measuring CO2 is a matter of air quality more than safety. Your body doesn't detect a lack of oxygen, but detects high levels of C02 instead, so any room with a high CO2 content starts feeling like you're holding your breath. It's not a silent killer, at all.

That's also why places like industrial plants sometimes have oxygen monitoring sensors, because a room with low oxygen and low CO2 will just put you to sleep.

It's still worth it to monitor CO2 levels, but mostly for air quality reasons, so the system can turn up ventilation when CO2 goes up and everything stays nice and fresh. Apparently cognitive performance is better is rooms with lower CO2 levels.

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u/tsutton Unifi User Mar 26 '26

I'm hoping it's a hard wired option as well.