Horrible App and Smoke Detector. – Onelink Home by First Alert Review

I had to replace the detector after 4 years. It’s supposed to have a 10 year life. When I tried to install a replacement every attempt failed. The app is very unreliable in setting up the Bluetooth connection to the detector, adding the detector to the Apple HomeKit, and especially connecting to Wi-Fi. There’s no trouble shooting support in the app. If any step fails you have to start the whole process over from the first step. It’s particularly annoying that mounting the detector is included in the setup process, so you have to page through those steps every time you have to retry the setup. Come on, once it’s mounted your done with that. Do you really need to walk through that 20 times? I gave up on the setup after 2 hours effort. Now I’m looking for a better smoke detector.
Review by AlanRashid on Onelink Home by First Alert.