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This happened to me a week or so ago. Unlike the OP, I searched for "Nest Protect false alarm" and was sent directly to this helpful page: https://nest.com/supp
by rcoder 11y ago
This happened to me a week or so ago. Unlike the OP, I searched for "Nest Protect false alarm" and was sent directly to this helpful page: https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-Protect-sounds-false-smoke-alarms-or-my-Nest-app-says-The-smoke-sensor-has-failed https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-Protect-sounds-false-s...
After blowing the visibly-accumulated dust out of the interior everything was back to normal.
I wonder if the OP uses similar debugging tactics on servers that send alerts? "Hmm. 'CRITICAL: disk full' alert? Guess I'll hit it with a hammer until I stop getting paged."
- colanderman 11y agoDid it happen to you at 3 AM with your dogs barking? Honestly I'd have gone the sledgehammer route too.
- lambda 11y agoYeah, the difference with the disk full alert and the alarm is that the alarm is emitting a very obnoxious noise continuously while you're trying to debug it; and in the meantime, not actually providing a useful service, like the server is. Trying to debug a problem at 3 AM when you just want to go back to sleep because there isn't anything actually wrong, just faulty alarm hardware, is not nearly so useful as clearing out some space on a full disk when it is in active operation.
- kissickas 11y agoI've never seen a Nest product in person. A quick search [0] makes it look easy to replace the batteries in all models. Can't you just remove the battery plate and pop one out quickly before debugging? [0] https://nest.com/support/article/How-do-I-replace-my-Nest-Protect-s-batteries https://nest.com/support/article/How-do-I-replace-my-Nest-Pr...
- cmsj 11y agoIn the industry, we call it "percussive maintenance"