Onelink Home by First Alert 4+

I’ve had three detectors installed in my house for close to a year now, and they’re fully integrated into HomeKit. We’ve recently had a detector start to report a fire in the house, which sets off all three alarms. There are several problems here. First, there is no fire, false alarm. Second, the announcement on the alarm says “Fire in hallway”. Problem is that there is no reference to “hallway” in either HomeKit or the Onelink app. No problem, I’ll just go to the app and look through the history to find out which detector is having the problem. Problem three: the history for all three detectors is blank. No alarm information at all. And when the alarms are sounding there are no alerts that pop up on the phone. I’m very frustrated with this produce and am looking to replace soon as I see three year old negative reviews. Since the issues haven’t been addressed in three years I don’t anticipate them being addressed anytime soon. I really recommend First Alert discontinue this product since they aren’t supporting it.

I’ve only seen a single review, posted in February, and I got the product and app in September. Maybe the first reviewer had legitimate issues, but I’ve had absolutely none. The alarm was simple to install; three adapters included, one for wire-to-wire installation, plus two other modular plugs for compatibility with other brands. I just opened the breaker for my smoke detector, matched the wire colors and attached with the existing wire nuts. The white and black wires come pre-stripped, but if you want to use the orange interconnect, it will have to be cut and stripped.
Once everything was hooked up, shut the breaker and everything powered up fine. Downloaded the app and paired it to the detector. Linked up with HomeKit on my phone without even trying!
Now I don’t currently have a HomeKit hub at home, so I can’t say whether there are any issues there.
As far as interconnect goes, mine is connected to three basic First Alert wired models in other areas of the house (model 9120B), and when I tested the OneLink model, they all went off. You should have seen my cats! It’s nice that the app keeps a history of these tests; I wonder if it will remind me when it’s time to test again?

Just installed my first Sensor and the process went very smoothly. I have two more to do and will adjust the review if needed, but after having Neat Protects at my old house, these are pretty similar. Hopefully pairing the other two to this one goes just as well. Will update.

Update: Got the other two installed. Third one I had to go through the process three times, but it worked. Tip: Be patient. It can time a little time for each step, so wait it out. I got impatient on the third one, which is why I think I had the issue of having to go through the process a few times.

Update: Moving to 3 stars as my first attempt to view the status of the three sensors did not work when I was away from the house. This is the main function I wanted, as I am used to Nest Protects and this is easy with them. Got a message via the app of some Bluetooth issue, which doesn’t make sense if the sensors are on Wi-Fi. I want to be able to check the status or ensure I will get alerts when I am away from the house, otherwise there is no point to spending extra for these.