Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by bshep on Sunday December 17, 2017 @09:24PM (#15948959)

My house has 6 fire alarms, when they beep there is NO way to tell which one it is making the noise 2/2 the combination of short beep and irregular beeping interval.

My solution is to just change all the batteries at once so i dont have to guess (and if you guess wrong you then you wont sleep tomorrow because of the beeping)

I wish there was some visual indicator to tell which one was faulty.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by lb1lf on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:32AM (#15949879)

My smoke detectors made a boast on the packaging they featured a fool-proof low battery indication, without going into any details.

I bought half a dozen of them to install in our new house years ago, thinking the nightly find-the-beeping-^+=¥€ games were finally a thing of the past.

When one started beeping, I did the rounds, figuring I'd be back in bed in minutes. Well, I wasn't. Turned out the fool-proof indication was to have the normally green LED flash red instead.

Did I mention that I am colour blind?

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by michaelmior on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:14AM (#15950423)

Unfortunately as some who isn't colour blind and doesn't have any close friends who are, it's easy to forget about these concerns. I think attention to accessibility issues like this is one of the things that separates great designers from good ones.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by lb1lf on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:11AM (#15950632)

Oh, it isn't all bad - now I get to kick my wife out of bed to find the offender, instead.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by mark-r on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:07AM (#15961148)

The smoke detectors in my house are supposed to do that, but many times I've found one chirping and the light is nice and green.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by dawnerd on Sunday December 17, 2017 @09:57PM (#15949056)

I believe they all beep because they want you to replace all the batteries.

I had this happen a few months ago except it wasn't a low battery alarm. It kept yelling "FIRE FIRE" but then turning off. Of course FirstAlert apparently doesn't indicate which alarm is causing it. They say the initiating one flashes a different pattern but I didn't find one. Ended up, after getting no sleep at all, replacing all 9 of them with nests. At least then if one fails I'll know which one.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by lostlogin on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:24PM (#15949411)

This who thread had me feeling twitchy. How did any of these product designs make it to market?

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by TeMPOraL on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:57AM (#15949731)

They weren't (probably still aren't) regulated enough.

Manufacturers can get away with it because even if they screw up, an angry customer doesn't really affect their sales in any meaningful way.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by gasbag on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:31PM (#15956111)

Aren't Nest Protect alarms also linked? This harrowing video leads me to believe they are. It's a couple years old at this point though. (Turn your sound down, video is a poor soul trying to deactivate them.)

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

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by macintux on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:17AM (#15952162)

That reminded me of an iOS quirk that thankfully has since been resolved.

A few years ago I used "Find my iPhone" to chase down my phone in the house, buried under some pile or another. Unfortunately I had earlier been using AirPlay to play music through remote speakers, so of course the emergency tone played through the speakers, not the device.

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