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Today, somewhere in Bavaria: I'm at work, phone goes off - significant other on the line. "Our smoke alarms just went off and i'm running around, trying to tu
by moepstar 6y ago
Today, somewhere in Bavaria:
I'm at work, phone goes off - significant other on the line.
"Our smoke alarms just went off and i'm running around, trying to turn them off"
I'm like "Ooook, have you been cooking?" - "No, nothing, been working and it just went off, also no smoke anywhere to be seen".
Scratching my head, looking at my watch, 10:39 (alarms where supposed to go off at around 11:00).
So, we currently have 6 connected fire alarms around the house (Hekatron Genius Plus X + Base Funk (radio) module, so they're connected).
They're not connected to anything besides themselves, so i really wondered how and why they'd go off for this test alert.
Thing is, the smoke alarms do have a notion of what time it is as they turn off the flashing light from 9PM to 7AM, so i wasn't quick to dismiss them catching the publicly broadcasted signal and go off too...
Scratching my head even further, i figured i'd give Hekatron a call - the guy on the hotline tried really hard to keep his calm but chuckled and said it basically was just a coincidence and if the one that triggered the alarm would go off again i could basically RMA it.
Lesson learned, coincidences do happen, also people do win the lottery after all :)