Nest Smoke Alarm Erroneously Stops Alarming

January 21, 2014

Google Nest engineers discovered an issue in the Nest Wave feature of their Nest Protect: Smoke + CO Alarm, which may mistakenly silence actual alarms during testing.

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Alleged deployer: nest-labs
Alleged developer: nest-labs
Alleged harmed parties: fire-victims

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