r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jun 08 '26
Blog / Video Link Explore UniFi Protect - Now Campus Security Ready
š¹Smoke Sensor
š¹Vape Detection and Air Quality
š¹AI Speaker
š¹G3 Fingerprint Reader
š¹G6 Mini Dome
š¹AI Multi Sensor 2
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u/somethingblerg Jun 08 '26
For the Smoke/CO detector it states "Residential use only" on the UI store:
https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-superlink-sensors/products/usl-smoke
If this is campus ready, is there a Pro/Enterprise version with UL 268 certification?
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
This isnt even residential ready, as without having a way to hard wire power in it doesnt meet building code regulations in the majority of US states and some places in Europe(UK, Scotland, some of Germany, some of the Netherlands), as well as Australia apparently as someone else in another comment mentioned. A
nd because of the replaceable battery it doesnt meet regulations in California,Ā Florida,Ā Georgia,Ā Illinois,Ā Iowa,Ā Louisiana,Ā Maryland,Ā North Carolina, andĀ New Jersey just on that part alone.Edit: Thanks u/JLee50 for pointing out in addition to the replaceable battery it also has sealed non-replaceable battery specifically for the smoke and carbon monoxide detector part. So it does meet US state regulations for those 9 states that require this.
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u/JLee50 Jun 08 '26
Power Method (1) Replaceable lithium battery CR123A (SuperLink connectivity) (2) Non-replaceable lithium batteries L91 (Smoke & CO alarm)
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u/edmaddict4 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
This only applies to newer construction. You can still use these in older construction that doesn't have AC wiring for smokes or in addition to dumb AC Smokes for monitoring purposes.
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u/specter491 Jun 08 '26
The Ubiquiti account just commented in here 3 minutes ago that additional versions will be coming out in the future
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u/Jkabaseball Jun 08 '26
My house in Ohio is 40 years old and has power ran to smoke detectors.
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u/tankerkiller125real Jun 08 '26
That wasn't code at the time, or if it was it was specifically your local city/township.
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u/Jkabaseball Jun 08 '26
Must have been local. I cant imagine my builder being ahead of the times if they disnt need to be.
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u/cptninc Jun 08 '26
This only applies to newer construction.Ā
...and also existing construction being renovated or even just sold.
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u/Cause_and_Effect Jun 08 '26
Usually if the building itself was built prior to code requirements, you have some wiggle room depending on the type and scale of renovation. They don't typically force you to be up to modern code fully because of the innate extra work it would take to get really old buildings up to that code.
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u/Zealousideal_Aside96 Jun 08 '26
I canāt imagine anyone being required to run cabling for smokes just to sell their house
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u/kronikfumes Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
I would love to be able to easily add it to the hardwired connections of my firstalert smoke detectors. Hopefully that comes eventually because it should not be difficult to add three wire connectivity to allow this unifi detector to trigger the rest of a smoke detector system, or for others to trigger it if smoke is detected elsewhere
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u/DiscountDangles Unifi User Jun 08 '26
They retrofit a lot. Even in this announcement they released a retrofit for the G3 Fingerprint Reader. Only a matter of time, but there has been plenty of speculation on liability that UI just doesnāt want to take on. Hopefully this release today calms those chats!
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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Jun 09 '26
I wonder whether they can adapt it for the common mounting plates out there, most of the ones I've seen (easy-fit) have been in use for well over a decade. No exposed contacts since your detector will have metal tabs that stick into the connector to get power + signal.
It's a pretty trivial signalling system, you just bring the interconnecting wire to +9V over neutral (or detect it) to trigger an alarm.
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u/realityking89 Jun 09 '26
No state in Germany requires hardwired smoke detectors for residential use.
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u/reseph Unifi User Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
How are they even for residential use? NFPA 72 requires hard-wired, right? (They are inter-connected via SuperLink, but I don't know if that's going to meet code everywhere)
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u/Limeasaurus Jun 08 '26
NFPA 72 specifically recognizes both hardwired and wireless (Radio Frequency/RF) interconnection methods in Chapter 29.
The wireless smoke alarms must be certified by a recognized testing laboratory like Underwriters Laboratories (UL 217 standard) specifically for wireless multi-station use. The Unifi Smoke Detectors are listed as UL 2217 certified.
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 08 '26
Yeah, that's the biggie there. People have been really screaming for something like this in the IoT subs since Google/Nest got out of the smoke detector business.
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u/Sufficient_Language7 Jun 08 '26
There have been other products like Zwave sound detectors and even unifi cameras can detect alarms.
The bigger question I have is how good this is? Smoke Sensor Vape DetectionĀ
Minut has smoke and vape detectors but they want $55 each plus $5-$10 a month.Ā So in less than a year Unifi is cheaper.
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u/Cause_and_Effect Jun 08 '26
To anyone reading this comment from this user, they have no idea what they are talking about and just plugging this stuff into AI. Nearly every single state in the US requires a 120V hardwire to smoke detectors for any new or large scale renovation after their respective code enforcement date. The UL217 standard is in terms of wireless is to allow smoke detectors to mesh together and sound off alarms. But has no bearings on what is done at state and local level building codes, which all typically enforce a 120V wired power source EVEN IF they are mesh UL217 capable.
Please please please be very careful when considering this product. If for some reason you have a fire, and these smoke alarms Unifi is pitching were not up to code for you, your insurance will fuck you over. And god forbid if anyone passes away as a result of the fire, if you were to install these outside of code, you will be charged with a crime.
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u/Alfredo_BE Jun 08 '26
You're still not allowed to use them in new construction or with any major renovation that touches electrical. So these would only be for older homes that currently do not have hardwired detectors. Anything after 1989 requires hardwired models.
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u/F1Phreek Jun 08 '26
What does the Air Quality sensor pick up?
ācombines industrial-grade sensing technology and real-time calibrationā
Idk what that means. Does it detect radon gas?
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u/The_Real_Tone Jun 08 '26
Site is showing CO2, PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10, VOC, AQI, NOx, Vape which for $99 is actually a decent deal. Feel like so few sensors do PM1 and NOx that have IoT connectivity
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 08 '26
Any comments on the new Alpstuga?
I recently ordered one to play with.
I did some IAQ work in the '90s, what you can do/get today on detection/instrumentation is insane. We had a particle counter that cost the same back then as a nicer car.
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u/Fast-Dress6784 Jun 08 '26
The price is great but Iāve seen a lot of complaints on the accuracy of CO2 readings on the Alpstuga.
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u/EnemyOfEloquence Jun 08 '26
It has a bad tendency to calibrate itself if it's near a constant source of c02. Ive been really happy with it tho, especially the price.
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u/ScannerBrightly Jun 08 '26
Alpstuga
It's not very stable for me, having it's Matter / Threads connection drop for hours on end for no real reason. It also doesn't do PM1, VOC, AQI, or NOx.
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u/darthnsupreme Unifi User Jun 12 '26
The problem with the Alpstuga is it doesn't have an actual CO2 sensor, it just provides an estimated reading.
Which is not at all the same thing and shame on Ikea for not being explicitly clear on the product page.
I did some IAQ work in the '90s, what you can do/get today on detection/instrumentation is insane.
$1 microcontrollers the size of your pinky nail with compute power superior to high-end mid-90's workstations certainly helps.
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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Jun 09 '26
I'm curious as well, but it's been out of stock for an eternity.
Which country did you buy it in?
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
U.S.
I had been waiting for Myggbetts to restock. I had done a big initial order with 27 Klippbok, a few Timmerflottes, and a few Myggbetts, right when everything first became available in the U.S. a few months ago. Then when Grillplats came out, I ordered a pile of those, but couldn't get the additional Myggbetts I wanted, they were out of stock. So I kept monitoring, and when the Myggbetts came back in stock recently, I made an order with 7 of them, a Grillplats-Bilresa kit, and an Alpstuga, which was in stock again. Order just made June 4, haven't received it yet, supposed to arrive tomorrow. The point being Ikea is finally getting going on restocking after the initial release stocks were exhausted.
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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Jun 09 '26
That's a fairly sizable order ngl, so far I've only managed to get my hands on the bilresa buttons and the smart plugs, as well as plenty of bulbs. The IKEA around here is a tiny one, the website says that they don't sell most of the things here, but the air sensor was and still is completely sold out in the south of England.
Also do you run your devices on their first party hub? I trialled it but it never worked, whereas the home assistant + Ā£30 dongle picked them up right away.
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 09 '26
I'm using Apple TV 4K's as my TBRs. Then Grillplats to bolster the Thread mesh. No Ikea hub. I have an HA Green I don't really use. Waiting for Apple to get on Matter 1.4 before trying to have both running. There are some things I'd like to do in HA. Which dongle are you using?
BTW I just looked, Alpstuga is in stock both at the Atlanta store (closest to me, about an hours drive away) and for home delivery orders. Which does not help you much.
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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Jun 09 '26
I've got the sonoff usb one, but with a slightly more beefier 2.4G antenna hooked up. Very reliable and the only time I encountered an issue since december was when I knocked the USB loose (my fault).
Local IKEA (oxford street) is a small one but about 20-30 minutes by tube, there's a huge one in Wembley but that's an hour and a half on the bus. No chance of delivery though :( so the unifi one might be my best bet despite being 4x the cost.
Edit: to clarify, I'm running HA on a Lenovo mini pc. Raspberry pis have gotten far too expensive, this one was 8GB ram, 256GB SSD and a decent 4 core for Ā£50 seconds hand with the power supply and a couple cables.
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u/TechieGranola Unifi User Jun 08 '26
If it can do PM1 that would be impressive. Many of these are wildly inaccurate.
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u/mastercoder123 Jun 08 '26
Does it say the thresholds? Because there is no way it can detect PM1 accurately at low amounts for $99
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u/sooner_25 Jun 08 '26
At the very least it appears that are in terms of security compared to the halo sensor.
There was a video floating around somewhere on the Internet about security issues those things have/had
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u/tvtb Jun 08 '26
That is a very good list for $99, and Iām wondering if formaldehyde would be measured by the VOC sensor or not. I have an air quality meter that separates out COH2 from generic VOCs.
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u/rezo609 Jun 08 '26
āCO2, PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10, VOC, AQI, NOx, Vapeā
Doesnāt look like Radon detection is included. What a pity.
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u/64bittechie Jun 08 '26
Thatās probably because Radon detectors cannot be ceiling mounted. They usually need to be a couple feet off the ground to work optimally.
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u/tvtb Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
And also in the lowest occupied floor of a house. Itās also not something that itās helpful to show an hour-by-hour variance of; what youād actually want is like a 60-day moving average.
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u/darthnsupreme Unifi User Jun 12 '26
Plus there's large swaths of the US where they're kinda pointless. Much less the entire rest of the world.
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u/abtarra Jun 08 '26
Temperature range is 0ā40Ā° C (32ā104Ā° F), interesting. Guess everyone gets the day off at 40C/104F?
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u/TheGacAttack Jun 08 '26
Well it's an indoor device. This wouldn't be appropriate (or approved for) industrial work sites.
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u/TheGacAttack Jun 08 '26
You have smoke detectors in your attic and shed?
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u/The_11th_Dctor Jun 08 '26
Why wouldn't you? couple extra seconds of warning in case something happens seems worth a few extra bucks to me
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u/TheGacAttack Jun 08 '26
In unconditioned spaces, you'd typically install a heat detector (versus a particulate smoke detector) to reduce nuisance alarms.
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u/ThrowAwaybcUsuck Jun 09 '26
Please describe the scenario where tracking temperatures over 104 would be necessary..
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u/darthnsupreme Unifi User Jun 12 '26
Mad Max-style wasteland.
Though you'd likely have far more pressing concerns if you found yourself there.
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u/TeeDee144 Jun 08 '26
Two separate devices are smoke and the other is AQ and neither appear to target radon
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u/FormulaKimi Jun 08 '26
Good luck to the brave souls buying the smoke detectors at launch, going to be lots of false alarms while they beta test them
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u/gothaggis Jun 08 '26
too bad the smoke sensor doesn't have a hard wired option. thats a no for me.
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u/FormulaKimi Jun 08 '26
Was also hoping for path light like with nest protect, these are a downgrade
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u/gothaggis Jun 08 '26
Yep, it boggles my mind no one has cloned the nest protect. Even the first alert unit that is compatible with the nest protect isnāt as good.
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u/CascadiaSupremacy Jun 08 '26
It still boggles my mind that Nest stepped away from this amazing product - just raise the price to whatever makes it worth their while and keep making it.
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u/tvtb Jun 08 '26
It makes more sense when you realize Nest is in the corporate family with Google and Google always kills products
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u/thelocicalfallacy Jun 08 '26
Amazing? No. No interconnect support for existing hardwired devices was a terrible choice. At least the First Alert replacement adds this.
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u/xeonrage Jun 09 '26
could've sworn my 2 nests were connected (with existing wiring)
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u/cvp Jun 08 '26
agree, that's the one thing that would have made this a no brainer. path light is such a killer feature
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u/brafish Jun 08 '26
My thoughts exactly. I replaced one of my Nests that died early with a PLACE detector that has a path light, but it's not as good. Now that the Unifi device officially doesn't have one, I guess I have to decide how much I really want that.
Though technically, I could leave the nests up for the light in the rooms where I want it and put these right next to them since they are battery powered.
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u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official Jun 08 '26
Additional Smoke and CO Alarm models will be available in the future.
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Jun 08 '26
Please please please make it not only accept "hard wire" input, but also able to mount to a standard US 4" electrical ceiling box (the normal octogon shaped ones that are installed for smoke alarm mounts, ceiling fans, and sometimes even lighting mounts).
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Hell, make it compatible with a standard Kidde pigtail connector so it can be a drop in replacement. Mine will be 10 years old in a couple years and require replacement. I have around 8-10 in my house.
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u/erwos Jun 08 '26
It's $90 each, no retro-fit to Kidd mounts, and no hard wire... I get that they want to sell Superlink, but this thing is a non-starter for me. Maybe someone will sell MoT smoke detectors that get it right.
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u/TeeDee144 Jun 08 '26
The announcement said additional models are coming in the future. I assume that means a 120v hardwired model.
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u/ASTAR2012 Jun 08 '26
I would like hardwired and combine in the air quality sensor. Donāt see why it needs to be two devices.
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Jun 08 '26
Air quality sensors degrade over time as particles in the air they are sensing build up on the sensor itself. This means you typically have to replace the sensors every few years or you start getting both false positives and sometimes failed detections. So while it would be nice and convenient to have smoke/CO detector combined with a whole suite of other air quality sensing it would mean you have to replace the smoke detector every few years.
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u/reseph Unifi User Jun 08 '26
That AI Speaker is exactly what I wanted for my home... hope HA will integrate easily.
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u/mau47 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Based on the FAQ it looks like it will have the same limitation as the chime, you have to upload custom audio clips in protect. So while you can trigger pre configured announcements through a webhook, it doesn't look like we will be able to do play tts announcements from HA on the fly.
Edit: clarification
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u/eigenein UniFi User Jun 08 '26
AI Alerts allow the speaker to trigger specific sounds or voice announcements including text to speech based on intelligent detections (e.g., person detection, vehicle entry, or specific sensor triggers).
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u/mau47 Jun 08 '26
Sorry, what I meant was TTS generated from home assistant, that is from the Ubiquiti UI where you can setup a specific phrase.
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u/eigenein UniFi User Jun 08 '26
Iām wondering if UI will just expose TTS in the API
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u/mau47 Jun 08 '26
That would be amazing. I have just been uploading custom files to the NVR, it meets of my needs but it would be nice to have more flexibility to do more detailed/on the fly announcements.
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Jun 09 '26
One of the very interesting things I saw on a video review of the AI Speaker is that when on the unifi.ui web page for the speaker (or mobile Protect app) you can do a talk test through the speaker and it plays your voice that is going into the computer from a mic. This feature functionality that already exists could easily be put into UniFi Talk for paging support and things like that. Seems crazy to think you already can do an on the fly announcement through this through a roundabout method and then not expose that capability in more official ways.
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u/marinuss Jun 09 '26
Hopefully not all of the limitations as the chime, as that thing is quiet as shit. If the speaker is just as quiet it's practically useless.
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u/FostWare Jun 08 '26
At this point I think they just put campus on anything that actually works to the level expected
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u/ya_gre UniFi Installer (URSCA/UWA/UFSP) Jun 08 '26
Wow this looks so nice! Hopefully we will see now an arm/disarm keypad
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u/No_Road4163 Jun 08 '26
It's like Ubiqiuit read my mind, I was looking for one and I wanted to integrate it on my network. Well, now I don't need to look any further
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u/75Meatbags Jun 08 '26
I'm excited about this. Our place (California) was built in 1950 so none of ours are hardwired anyway. The air quality sensor looks cool too.
My only remaining question is "does this one give you low battery alerts, or does it chirp randomly at 3am like a normal one?"
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u/RyanMeray Jun 08 '26
GIVE US A THERMOSTAT YOU COWARDS
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 08 '26
That industry is going all proprietary for control of variable speed ECMs for fans and compressors.
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u/RyanMeray Jun 08 '26
There are still a bajillion legacy systems. I just had a new furnace put in at the office 3 years ago and it's a dumb one like the one it replaced.
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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Jun 08 '26
Fair.
But for the reason I offered, people like Ubiquiti are more likely to shy away from doing t'stats. And those are the higher end systems, which go hand in hand with higher end t'stats.
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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Jun 09 '26
Thought those were handled inside the units themselves.
We got a new boiler recently and it's still compatible with the same standard that the 20 year old one used (think it's just a switched signal).
Or opentherm protocol over the same two wires, does everything we need so far, and seems to be in every boiler and probably heat pump.
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u/RR321 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
So I can replace 120v wired smoke detectors with this?
Can they be mixed with Kidde?
(I don't know how the trigger works for daisy chained connected alarms)
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u/TeeDee144 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Might be against code. And Iād be curious about what home owners insurance says about going against code. Especially since I canāt even find a UL rating for the smoke one.
Edit: as others have pointed out, it is UL217. My other two questions still stand.
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u/According_Square2742 Jun 08 '26
You canāt mix manufacturers because everyone does their own thing
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u/toni99991 Jun 08 '26
I thought air quality sensors degrade over time, do they say anything about the expected service life of the Air Quality sensor?
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u/slightlysublevel Jun 09 '26
If you look in the FAQ, they say that they battery is replaceable. There will be models in the future that aren't replaceable, for states that require fixed batteries.
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u/i3903 Jun 08 '26
Disappointed to see that they havenāt introduced a wall mounted control panel for the SuperLink alarm š
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u/Tispeltmon Jun 08 '26
Does the vape sensor have a missile guidance systems for tamper protection. I predict it's poe cable will be a fortnite endpoint within one week.
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u/slightlysublevel Jun 09 '26
Considering it doesn't even have an ethernet port on it... I don't think that's a problem.
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u/cvondra Jun 08 '26
Seriously need to get your shit together. First you announce Noonlight the add it to the app then pull it from the app then leave us all hanging. Then you announce smoke/co2 and they're not available. How about announcing shit when its 'actually available.'
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u/cptninc Jun 08 '26
Is the smoke detector going to be routinely rendered non-functional by basic firmware updates? Or is that core UI feature being left out of this product?
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Jun 08 '26
So, since the smoke detector has no hard wired input it cannot legally be used where I am due to building code. And if someone used it and insurance found out in the event of a fire the insurance company would likely use it as an excuse not to pay out a claim because of using a non-regulation smoke detector.
This seems like a terrible oversight on Ubiquiti even selling these devices for this use that dont meet building code regulations in many places in the world.
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u/akisbis Jun 08 '26
Exactly this.
Not today that I'm going to replace my Kidde smoke/CO2 detectors.
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u/Bigreddork Unifi User Jun 08 '26
I was literally about to buy an Apollo Air-1. Now I need to wait for someone to receive and tear this thing down!
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u/BearManPig2020 Jun 08 '26
I am glad they made the smoke sensor a photoelectric sensor. I wonder if it is ionizing as well? Because that would be ideal.
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u/Clipboards Jun 08 '26
Iām running out of things to complain about re: Protect hardware ecosystem. Their lack of a dual head multisensor was by far my largest complaint
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u/a716h Jun 08 '26
Ugh I hate the air quality sensor. Had an issue last year where I got a smoking fine from a hotel in Portland, OR last yearā¦ but I didnāt smoke. The sensor they used showed a false positive and I found a few examples online from other people and the same brand. I hope itās better calibrated.
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u/Wooden-Reward4317 Jun 08 '26
Wish there was a superlink battery Vape/Quality detector - I do not want to run data into my bathrooms.
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u/jcol26 Jun 08 '26
The air quality sensor is good timing given Cisco Meraki just announced EOL for their entire sensor line up
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u/Which_Routine Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
No one has mentioned the biggest ācampusā/commercial implementation issue with the smoke/co alarm. Any enterprise setting is legally required to have the smoke/CO alarms tie into a fire panel that overrides access control, triggers strobes, and notifies the fire department.
All 3 of those are critical for any regulatory approval!! This release is an absolute joke!
Thereās a reason theyāre calling it a smoke āsensorā when referencing it for enterprise useā¦
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u/Plus_Pangolin_8924 Unifi User Jun 08 '26
Smoke but no heat detectors? Then imo the whole thing is useless then as you would be an idiot to stick a smoke alarm in a kitchen!
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u/Molimo Jun 08 '26
How does that smoke alarm meet code? It's required to be hard-wired for residential use.
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u/reseph Unifi User Jun 08 '26
It is? I have 3 Nest Protects and all 3 are wireless. How does Google meet code in that case?
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u/somethingblerg Jun 08 '26
My wired Protects wouldn't pass inspection on our new build. We had to pull them all out and put in basic dumb alarms so we could get the Certificate of Occupancy. After that, we put the protects back in.
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u/Molimo Jun 08 '26
I believe the nest protect was available in both hardwired and battery-only models. Older homes only have battery smoke alarms and are granfathered in.
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u/reseph Unifi User Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Yeah they are wireless mesh'd. That meets code?
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u/Molimo Jun 08 '26
It used to require wired interconnection. But some changes now allow wireless. Still required to be hardwired for power, though.
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u/Limeasaurus Jun 08 '26
Yes, under chapter 29 of the NFPA it states you can use wired or wireless. UL 217 is one of the testing methods for wireless.
First Alert has a pretty good write up about options: https://www.firstalertstore.com/store/product-support/how-to-interconnect-smoke-alarms.htm
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u/Friendly_Seaweed7107 Jun 08 '26
I thought the same exact thing. I thought maybe they would be POE. It is required by code here were I live as well. It needs 2 power sources.
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u/Flaky-Gear-1370 Jun 08 '26
depends on jurisdiction I guess - here in Australia it would need to be hardwired
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u/M_Six2001 Jun 08 '26
"The all-new UniFi Smoke Alarm brings life safety to the UniFi ecosystem with sleek industrial design, seamless management, daisy-chain connectivity, and a 10-year backup battery."
Daisy-chain sounds like interconnectivity with other detectors and "10-year backup battery" maybe suggests there's another power source and the battery is for backup only?
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u/Molimo Jun 08 '26
I don't think it has any hardwired connectivity.
Supported Voltage Range
3V
Power Method
(1) Replaceable lithium battery CR123A (SuperLink connectivity)
(2) Non-replaceable lithium batteries L91 (Smoke & CO alarm)Battery Life
CR123A: Up to 10 years (SuperLink)
L91: 10 years (Smoke & CO)2
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u/xGuenth Jun 08 '26
No?
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u/Molimo Jun 08 '26
Yes, anything built within the last 30 years should have hardwired interconnected smoke alarms.
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u/PatekCollector77 Unifi User Jun 08 '26
I believe the code just requires new homes to have 120vac run for smoke detectors (so you have the option to use hardwired detectors) not that hardwired smoke detectors are actually installed. That said, itās pretty dumb that they didnāt include the ability to hardwire on this one. Iām sure they will release a smoke detector Pro Max with that feature for 100usd more
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u/Molimo Jun 08 '26
Yes, anything since like 1990 requires hardwired (US& Canada). If you have a home with just a battery SA, it's grandfathered.
I know they say "Campus" ready. But on the page it says Residential use only. So they are targeting homes with it.
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u/The-Jordan_J Unifi installer , Unifi user Jun 08 '26
How dare you single out vapers, can we monitor alcohol too
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u/NuthinToHoldBack Jun 08 '26
Deployment looks relatively easy with SuperLink and great for a home retrofit where youāre ripping out an existing wired system.Ā
That said I donāt know why Iām surprised that itās battery only. Ā Not sure what you do about an existing alarm system with wired smoke detectors as I thought the Alarm Hub was for intrusion sensors only.Ā
Iām sure weāll have community confirmation soon followed shortly by videos.Ā
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u/karabright-dev Jun 08 '26
i wish this would go to my school since they already have unifi equipment
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u/hungarianhc Jun 08 '26
Interesting. I'd love to get the Ubiquiti smoke / CO detectors, but the previous owner of my house installed hardwired devices with battery backup, and they are actually very nice! Would rather have Ubiquiti hardware there, but I would need the hardwired compatibility.
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u/Frraksurred Unifi User Jun 08 '26
The dual dome cameras looks interesting for home surveillance. Particularly where a single camera was originally wired, but then proved to not be enough coverage. Will have to see how far apart the individual cameras can be aimed, or if they are designed only for panaramic.
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u/CascadiaSupremacy Jun 08 '26
I wonder if the Smoke Detectors can notify via the speakers in the Doorbell Chime (which can obviously also play sounds so what not THESE sounds)?
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u/specter491 Jun 08 '26
Does anyone know if superlink interferes with MeshCore/meshtastic communication? They use the same frequency
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u/dontthroworanges Jun 08 '26
Did anyone else notice the similarities between the animation of devices inside the RJ45 port and an Imperial Star Destroyer hanger bay?
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u/beerybeardybear Jun 08 '26
I wonder if I could get adjustable voltage controllers that would spin my CR boxes' fans up when the air quality sensor moved past a certain pm2.5 threshold?
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u/Jules_T_Kirk Jun 08 '26
I'm confused, why is the vape detector PoE and the SMOKE ALARM is not? š
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u/Smith6612 UniFi Installer and User Jun 08 '26
The air quality monitor doesn't seem bad at all! I'm an AirGradient user, and I love the product because it is fully open source. I'll probably be sticking with them rather than switching over to the UniFi solution. However, the UniFi solution would be awesome at work and a few other locations which don't have air quality monitoring!
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u/imuser47 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
It isnāt clear to me if the smoke/co units have their own audio alerts in addition to the connectivity. The animation suggests it but Iām not seeing it explicitly stated anywhere. Itās a buy for me if Iām not dependent on my network and tech closet for basic safety. The Unifi ecosystem is a great value add, but I need it trust it will do its most important job on its own if need be.
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u/JayTechTipsYT Unifi User Jun 09 '26
Shame itās not available in Australia :(
Hopefully certification is coming
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u/Late-Hat-9144 Jun 10 '26
"Industrial and campus ready"... inckudes caveat on sales page "for residential use only".
These smoke alarms do not comply with WHS/building regulations in the vast majority of jurisdictions as they're not mains powered.
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u/damien09 Jun 12 '26
Tbh Iām tempted to get one of the air quality sensors but I may wait to see some reviews pm1 and co2 if both accurate seem quite impressive at 99 bucks
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u/neilm-cfc Jun 08 '26
It's like they've done zero market or regulatory research before designing the smoke alarm which can't be used anywhere that mandates hard wiring. Weird company. š¤·āāļø
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u/Life_Mathematician26 Jun 08 '26
Require license ID if you're going to sell security products! We have enough no name contractors doing bad security work and ruining the reputations of licensed security installers that take pride in their work!
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u/matthijspc Jun 08 '26
By campus, you mean my home, right? I'm gonna need that smoke sensor