Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
by tdicola on Friday February 13, 2015 @08:42PM
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I don't think it's just Nests, I bought a First Alert smoke alarm a year ago and it just recently started giving me random false alarms. Battery is fine but something is setting it off (not fire or smoke, and yes it has both atomic and photoelectric sensors). I went searching for a good smoke alarm without lots of false alarm complaints and unfortunately every smoke alarm on Amazon has complaints about false alarms.
I think in recent years manufacturers have become paranoid about missing an alarm and being sued so they probably default to fire the alarm if there's absolutely any potential reason, real or imagined, that a fire might be occuring.
Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
by tdicola on Saturday February 14, 2015 @01:06AM
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No these were false alarms at completely random times with no cooking, dusting, or other activity going on. A couple were late at night well after 2am and were pretty nerve rattling.
I think in recent years manufacturers have become paranoid about missing an alarm and being sued so they probably default to fire the alarm if there's absolutely any potential reason, real or imagined, that a fire might be occuring.