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So what was it?
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
So what was it?
- miles 9y agoAnd what was the app?
- Namrog84 9y agoI forget now. Was over a year ago now. It was just one that allowed me to zoom in on a specific point in the past 60 seconds of sound in real time to see an exact dB reading for a very specific and tiny spike. To my ears it always sounded the same volume. And to some apps. It wasn't considered loud enough to be read in a meaningful way.
- mixedCase 9y agoNot him but I'd bet 5 bucks it was a smoke alarm with depleted batteries.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoI'll add a related real life debugging tip I've seen play out at least twice in the real world: If you can't get an alarm to shut-off or stop beeping, no matter what you try, then give serious thought to the possibility that there's a second alarm nearby which is the source of the noise.
- Klathmon 9y agoAbout a year after I moved into my previous house, we heard that familiar chirping sound. After 3 goddamn hours of searching, and having run to the store to buy 9-volts and replaced every goddamn battery in the house, we found a carbon monoxide alarm thrown INSIDE the return air duct of the HVAC unit...
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoWhich is a reasonable place for one, as it will trigger from excess CO anywhere in the house when the HVAC is running. The problem is only obvious when you're not the original tenant who installed the thing.
- Namrog84 9y agoHere is $5. You are right.
- lostlogin 9y agoWonder if a full battery with a resistor in series would prolong the agony.
- taneq 9y agoOr a NiCd in place of an Alkaline battery.
- Namrog84 9y agoThe others were correct. It was the neighbors low battery smoke alarm. I had high suspicion that it was that. But not hearing it thru neighbors door. And with how loud it was and the fact I could hear it thru my front door and not theirs. Made the hunt for it so much harder.