Why Nest Protect Reporting an Emergency Filled Me With Comfort - http://blog.louisgray.com/2014...
Apr 15, 2014
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"This morning, my Nexus 5 chirped with a notification I hadn't seen before. While I was at the office, my Nest application was telling me, in no uncertain terms, that there was an Emergency in the kitchen at home. There was smoke, and the alarm from our Nest Protect smoke alarm was sounding. I called home quickly, and my wife told me, embarrassed, there was simply a small issue with the microwave, and all was fine."
- Louis Gray
I really did tweet first and then call home. :)
- Louis Gray
Ah, Louis.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I figured my wife had it under control and didn't want to answer the phone while waving her hands at the device. :)
- Louis Gray
So, you get notified every time someone makes the toast a little too dark? As paranoid as I am about fire, I'm not sure I'd like that. It would drive me bonkers to be carrying around a device that notifies me every time my hubby cooks something, without telling me what he is actually cooking.
- April Russo (FForever!)
April, it's the first time I've ever been notified. As my home is appropriately smokey, it was a good call.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I think you might have miss the humor in my statement.
- April Russo (FForever!)
Oh yeah. I have zero sense of humor. Zero. :)
- Louis Gray
Why do you have a smoke detector in your kitchen?
- Brian Johns
In the event of smoke? It's actually in our dining area to be more precise. But it's by the kitchen.
- Louis Gray
How long did you give her to answer the tweet before you called?
- Bruce Lewis
There's so much not-buring-the-house-down smoke in the kitchen that most fire peeps recommend NOT putting a smoke detector in the kitchen, exactly because of the false-positive situation you are encountering.
- Brian Johns
This wasn't a false positive. My house still smells like smoke. The smoke detector is in the dining area next to the kitchen. You'd approve of its placement, even if not its name.
- Louis Gray