First Alert S Safe Sound Homekit Smoke Alarm Doubles As An Airplay 2 Music Speaker

First Alert’s Onelink smart and carbon monoxide alarm (review) was the first to hit the market with support for Apple’s HomeKit, and now First Alert is out with an interesting new version.

Unveiled at CES 2018, Onelink Safe & Sound is a new version that includes a built-in music speaker. The current version includes voice feedback when alarms are triggered, but First Alert says Safe & Sound will actually support AirPlay 2 for real music playback when the feature launches this year.

Apple’s new AirPlay 2 feature is set to debut with the HomePod sometime in early 2018 then expand to other speakers upon availability. When it launches, AirPlay 2 will enable multi-room audio playback from iOS with improved playback performance compared to the current version of AirPlay, and AirPlay 2 speakers will appear in Apple’s Home app as demoed at WWDC 2017.

Using your smoke detector as a music speaker is certainly an interesting concept. My guess is it will come down to speaker quality as to whether or not this feature is actually useful or just an add-on.

Siri, play “The Roof Is on Fire” on the hallway smoke detector.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUgLgbZbaE

First Alert is also entering the networking market with an eero/Netgear Orbi competitor.

This is CES, however, so pricing and availability are to be determined. You can keep up with all of the news out of Las Vegas with our CES 2018 Guide.