Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
by raldi on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:11PM
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The idea is supposed to be that if you accidentally told your basement smoke alarm that it was in the bedroom, you'd wake up hearing "Fire in the BEDROOM" and then you'd look around and see there's no fire in the bedroom and push the hush button and go back to sleep and meanwhile your basement is on fire.
So networked smoke alarms require you to visit the one that's detecting the fire and disable it locally.
Now, why they would ever make the regulations such that you can't temporarily silence the alarm, even when you're in direct physical contact with it, is beyond me.
Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
by bradfitz on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:46PM
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And despite me silencing the master bedroom one, the other four didn't shut off. That's my major complaint.
Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
by pacala on Friday February 13, 2015 @11:02PM
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There multiple persons under the same roof, sleeping at night. The alarm in the basement sounds. You go in there. There is a thick smoke. You disable the alarm. You inhale too much smoke and fall down. The house burns down and everyone dies.
Of course, why on earth would you disable the alarm if indeed there is a ton of smoke is beyond me. But maybe there was a real-life case of somebody confused that did just that, and in the emotional aftermath regulation was passed to make sure this never happens again, common sense be damned.
I've never used Nest Protect so I was curious about this. Why is it location-dependent? The Nest site has some info[0]:
Hushing works differently during an emergency. If Nest Protect detects emergency levels of smoke, it will sound an alarm that can’t be hushed, by regulation. However, you can hush the other Nest Protects in the house by pressing the button on the Nest Protect that detected the problem. So, when you press the Nest button on the Nest Protect in the bedroom, it will continue to alarm, but the Nest Protect in the living room will quiet down. We designed Nest Protect to hush this way so you can more easily communicate with other people in the house during an emergency while still being able to locate and address the source of the problem.
0: https://nest.com/support/article/What-types-of-alarms-can-I-...