Re:We're hearing about troubles at Nest
by IgorPartola on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:05PM
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This is why I like the FirstAlert wireless detectors: mesh network so they all go off, but you program each one to announce with a voice which room the trouble is in. They even announce which one has the low battery instead of chirping in the middle of the night.
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Re:We're hearing about troubles at Nest
by Klathmon on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:27PM
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Well much of that was the "dream" of the nest protects...
It announces where the "alert" is, you can wave to dismiss it, it has the app for your phone to alert you if you are away from home, and they all link together (without needing any wiring in the house, making it easy to retrofit).
Sadly in practice it's a mess, nothing works, so much so that I've lost all confidence in the product to do it's minimal function, detect smoke...
It's a bit ridiculous when you could have basically taken any old mass produced el-cheapo smoke detector circuit, and instead of tripping an alarm have it just feed into gpio pins on some wifi/whatever controller that has the "smarts".
Literally all that was needed to get 100% of the reliability of the billions of detectors out on the market, while working out all the kinks on the "cloudy" sort of stuff.
I have to admit I re-invent the wheel more than I should, but man. This one seems simple :)