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Re:Nest introduces their Smoke Detector by darkarmani on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @04:59PM (#6517816)
> if it was Nest they would have "easily" dismissed it and probably died.

Did you read the description at all? You can only dismiss warnings not alarms. You cannot dismiss life threatening situations.

Re:Nest introduces their Smoke Detector by krishnakanthc on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:50PM (#6518060)
I did. Maybe I missed the fine print. It seems like you can dismiss warning and alarms.

"You can wave your hand in front of Protect to dismiss the beeping — essentially, like pressing snooze on an alarm. As long as the situation doesn’t worsen, then your smoke alarms will never sound."

"For severe issues, Protect may opt to bypass the "heads up" warning and simply sound the alarm"

Still it doesn't say that this hand wave feature will stop working in these severe situations.

Ofcourse, I am sure they will iron things like this out before shipping.

Re:Nest introduces their Smoke Detector by enoch_r on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:08PM (#6518458)