Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product

Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by brudgers on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:41PM (#9048506)

Yes. Incapacitated smoke alarms are a contributing factor in fire deaths. Hence smoke alarms are deliberately difficult to incapacitate.

Be aware that battery powered smoke detectors are a retrofit, and do not meet building code requirements. They are better than nothing, but failure due to disconnected or missing batteries is already in the realm of worse than the worst thing that can legally be built today.

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Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by raldi on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:54PM (#9048541)

You're conflating "incapacitate" with "temporarily silence".

They're two separate concepts. We should make it really easy to temporarily silence a smoke alarm (for, say, 15m or 4h), so that people almost never have to fall back on incapacitation.

And mandating wired ones does not address the problem. People still incapacitate them, by unplugging them. More generally, people will always find a way to silence a smoke alarm, and the regulators' goal should be to ensure that they do it in a temporary way.

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