Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm?

Re:Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm? by lostlogin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:15AM (#35536043)

I’m at the point where a low battery in a smoke detector triggering a fire would be an actual upgrade. Have tried cheap, expensive, and multiple models. Currently have zero active and about 8 on a shelf. They randomly go off even with new batteries. My house isn’t on fire.

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Re:Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm? by blep_ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:22AM (#35537897)

I have literally never had this problem.

I don't mean that in a "so you must be wrong" way, but "there may be something up with your situation besides the smoke alarms themselves".

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Re:Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm? by mjevans on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:15PM (#35543186)

My guess is the landlord's invariably choose the cheapest models that check the box; or that everything out there just sucks for some reason.

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Re:Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm? by tobyjsullivan on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:35PM (#35546433)

One of those can lead to the other

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Re:Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm? by lostlogin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:43PM (#35544694)

> there may be something up with your situation besides the smoke alarms themselves

Completely agree and it’s very frustrating. My guess is humidity, as hot nights seem to be when they go off.

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