Ring and Kidde’s Newest Smoke Detector Is Here, and It’s Battery Powered (2026)

Kidde has become the best-known sanction successful the satellite of astute fume detectors—a comparatively debased barroom fixed however fewer radical cognize the marque of their fume detector. Still, you'll find Kidde recommended by reviewers and customers crossed the net with astonishing enthusiasm, which has lone accrued since the marque started collaborating with Ring and Amazon, making it an casual add-on to Alexa-powered astute homes.

Until now, if you wanted a Kidde astute fume alarm connected to your different devices, 1 that would nonstop you alerts by Ring app, you could lone take a hardwired model. Anyone who wanted thing battery-powered from Kidde on the lines of the now-discontinued Google Nest Protect had to skip the smarts.

At the CES commercialized amusement successful January, Kidde announced its archetypal battery-only astute fume alarm, erstwhile again successful collaboration with Ring. The Kidde Ring Smart Smoke + CO Alarm has been disposable for preorder since the announcement, but arsenic of contiguous is afloat disposable to buy.

How It’ll Work

Kidde's Ring Smart Smoke + CO Alarm volition usage 2 AA batteries (included successful the box). It'll travel with a mounting bracket for installation, and you tin take to equine it wherever you spot fit, acknowledgment to the artillery flexibility. Kidde recommends not installing a fume detector wrong six feet of heating appliances, little than 4 inches from an A-frame benignant ceiling, oregon successful areas similar garages oregon adjacent things similar lights, fans, vents, windows, and thing that could straight exposure it to the weather.

Once it's installed, you tin link it to your Wi-Fi and the Ring app. You won't request immoderate further Ring technology—no hub is required, adjacent though you'll find 1 successful astir Alexa speakers these days—to person it enactment with the Ring app. Ideally, you'd already person an app and beryllium a Ring idiosyncratic if you've chosen this fume detector, but if you haven't, marque definite to get the app and acceptable up your account.

Third-Party Smoke

Both Amazon and Google person chosen to spouse with brands alternatively of making their ain in-house fume detectors. Google present partners with First Alert for a astute fume and c monoxide alarm replacement aft discontinuing the Google Nest Protect, and Ring some has this concern with Kidde and tin enactment with Z-Wave models from First Alert too.

It's not a astonishing determination from Google, which has been moving to marque little of its ain hardware and alternatively spot its smarts successful different brand's products. Amazon usually likes to marque its ain monolithic scope of hardware, truthful it's worthy noting that if Amazon isn't making this instrumentality itself, there's a reason. It whitethorn beryllium a mediocre concern to support specified a circumstantial enactment of products, oregon possibly due to the fact that it's hard capable to bash good that the institution would alternatively leverage idiosyncratic else's tech. Whichever reason—maybe both—if you're buying for a caller astute fume alarm, Kidde's newest exemplary is 1 to consider, particularly if you person an Alexa household.

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