Nest Guard is bricked in a year. Free DIY ADT or completely switch to Ring?

Hello y’all.

All of my current system is google. Phone, nest cams, nest Guard etc. I’ve been fairly happy so far. My issue is that Nest Guard is going to be completely unusable this time next year per an email from Google. They are offering me the new ADT self set up completely free (or a $200 google store credit instead). I would be self monitoring so I wouldn’t have to worry about ADT shady business dealings. I live in an apartment so no hardwired “real” systems for me.

My brother has his entire house Alexa connected and is suggesting I ditch google (apart from my phone) and make the complete switch to Alexa/ring. I currently think that Google assistant is superior to alexa. I’m torn because if google switches its Assistant to its new AI Bard I think they will wind up being far superior in the end. However Google also seems to like to drop the ball every so often.

Anyone have any experience with the old ADT Blue? Should I just say it was fun Google and jump ship? I’m very torn.

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April 8, 2023
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