Nest Protect in Laundry room

[MJackson]

Hi, I am thinking about getting a Nest Protect and I am curious if the plug-in can help with this.

Motion- can this be triggered via HS to turn on a light when I enter the laundry room or do I need another sensor? If the motion does work for this purpose, is it a quick update? I am relatively new to HS, and I know there is some way to assign things to one of five groups (is groups the right term)? Or do I just create an event, ie. motion detected- light on. Light off if no motion after 5 min...


Humidity, since this is a small room with the clothes dryer, can I trigger an event, like turn on the vent fan?

[spud]

The Nest API does not expose any data from the Nest Protect motion sensor or humidity sensor, so no it's not possible.

[Mitch G]

Which I find darn annoying. They have this motion detection capability that they don't expose.
I also think it would be cool if one could have API access to the speakers on the Protects. It would give me (and others) instant whole-house audio options.

I know a bit OT but I had to vent.


Mitch

[MJackson]

Agreed, as well as the lights... For the price, I might as well get the First Alert smoke /CO detector and add a separate sensor for motion/humidity.