Skullvalanche

Google "Nest Detect" sensors

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Google "Nest Detect" sensors - Lemmy.world

I have a bunch of Nest Detect (A0028) sensors from the now defunct Google Nest home security system. Anybody know what radio protocol these things use? Zigbee? Z-Wave? some other thing? I have a Z-Wave USB dongle, or I could get a Zigbee one, but I’m not sure if either of them actually communicates with these devices. I hate to throw them away, as they’re well designed.

Jul 12, 2023 at 9:27pmWeb
Show threadthehatfoxJul 12, 2023

I think the Nest Secure products used a protocol called Weave on top of Thread. Weave was an application layer protocol like Matter and was open sourced by Google, but I don’t think any other projects picked it up and integrated with it. There is no Home Assistant support as far as I can tell.

It’s a shame as the Detect sensors are cute little devices.

Show threadSkullvalancheJul 12, 2023
ah, damn. thanks for the info!
Show threaddbrand666Jul 14, 2023
Homebridge might be worth a shot. I know its Nest integration is better in some ways than HA’s native integration.