> Over-riding their fucking primary purpose for the fucking sake of fucking occupant convenience violates the fucking basic principles of fucking life safety.

> Over-riding their fucking primary purpose for the fucking sake of fucking occupant convenience violates the fucking basic principles of fucking life safety. The system does not allow you to wave away what it considers life-threatening alarms. Nor does it allow you to wave away a worsening situation. http://support.nest.com/article/What-types-of-alarms-can-I-silence http://support.nest.com/article/What-types-of-alarms-can-I-s... Note that alarms can only be silenced in the room that triggered the alarm if the detector determines the alarm type to be a warning (and not as threatening). Your angry comment makes it sound like the creators didn't consider safety at all — while in all likelihood they paid a great deal of attention to safety, also noticing there is a lot of room for convenience to be added in a modern smoke alarm. > In the time it takes to download and install a smartphone app, one can probably replace all their smoke detector batteries Are you suggesting that getting on a ladder in each room and then removing and replacing the batteries for each smoke alarm is faster than downloading a single app on a smartphone?