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A false positive is better than a false negative. And OP's actions have presumably precluded any further diagnostics. I think once it'd had the heck smashed ou
by Nexxxeh 11y ago
A false positive is better than a false negative. And OP's actions have presumably precluded any further diagnostics.
I think once it'd had the heck smashed out of it with a sledgehammer, it's out of warranty and Nest/Google/whatever won't be in a hurry to RMA it.
Which is not to say I'd have necessarily done anything different, or that it was OP's responsibility. I'm just saying it's not very helpful.
It could have just been something daft and it just needed to be blasted clean. Or it could be something serious and systemic, in which case getting the manufacturer to take a look would have been wise.
Still, if my whole house was turned into some sort of chamber of loud alarms in the middle of the night, I don't think logic would have been my primary response either.
- HarryHirsch 11y agoI think the Nest smoke detectors are overengineered pieces of shit. The dumb whitebox kind you buy from Walmart are well understood, you know where you are. If any one goes off at random at night you push the silencer button, throw the thing out and replace it for very cheap. But they won't turn the whole house into Pandaemonium and tempt you to fetch the sledgehammer for an exorcism. It's another instance of Chesterton's Fence.