Owl Home

This app is unfortunately laughable. It seems to have quite a delay, built into it as when I toggle on and off different features of this smoke detector, they don’t instantly take affect, and they end up affecting other settings. Tried turning off notifications, but then it turns on notifications instead, etc. I’ve now updated the firmware three times in the past hour and it’s still telling me that there are firmware updates available. There’s also no way to turn notifications for an active alarm off when connected to HomeKit, but nothing in their documentation mentions that. This forces me to use this app, which is terrible. This might be returned as I’m not sure how much faith I can put in a company for home, protect protection of fire and carbon monoxide when they can’t even get a basic app correct.

I just replaced a First Alert detector with one I hope will be easier to manage and monitor remotely. Install was ok. App seems pretty good. HomeKit integration seems to be missing the ability to silence an alarm. Which is pretty much why I installed it…

I replaced some first alert safe and sounds with the Owls. The setup process was much easier, and I was able to pair them with Home Assistant using the HomeKit device integration. The only downside is the motion sensor doesn’t seem to be reliable or is too sensitive and generates false notifications. However since it can be disabled in the app this was not a problem for me as I didn’t care about the motion functionality.