NEST Smoke and CO Detector

[Neal]

About two years ago after an electrical short situation and discussion on inverter fires or other potential basement fires I decided to add smoke detectors to my basement. At the same time I replaced the two in the house part of my RV so in all I now have four smoke detectors. You can go cheap from Lowes and hope you hear it or you can go modern with NEST so you get notifications on your smartphone, etc. which can help when you're not at your RV and keep in the know. Yesterday I had an incident where NEST gave me great warning as to a smoke in the basement situation due to an electrical short in my hydronic water heating system. NEST proved their value and purpose. Highly recommend! Be sure to get the battery version vs. wired version.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XV1RCRY/?tag=rvf01-20

 

[Rich W.]

Do these rely on wifi and internet to communicate with your phone? Also do they work on blue tooth to communicate with each other, so that even with no wifi or internet you can still get an alert from a remote detector? I’m guessing its time for a router in the coach.

 

[Neal]

I don't know all of those answers but I have them setup to Wi-Fi which is how they talk to the cloud which monitors them and runs tests at certain intervals and how the phone connects. I don't know if it has a bluetooth option. You'd have to check the specs.

https://store.google.com/us/product/nest_protect_2nd_gen