I have the Nest Protects. Great devices. Pity Nest was bought by Google though as they seem to have no interest in them or putting them in the home app.
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HomePod Saves Family's Life After Dog Starts Kitchen Fire
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Lord how many hateful comments here. Accidents happen. I had a similar thing happen to me - our dog is always very curious about things in the countertop and while we were out he climbed and turned on the touch controlled stove top with his paws by accident and caused a fire. I think the point of this story is just to a) remind people to not leave anything on, or near the stove top and b) showcase the safety features of the homepod. And yes smoke alarms are loud but if you have sound/fire proof doors, a house that is not built with paper walls and multiple floors it can easily happen that you don’t hear it.
Then they went and bought ADT of all companies and are trying to force Nest users over to ADT with expensive yearly contracts.
The HomePod was just jealous to observe dog's smarter capabilities with home appliances and thus triggered a Siri notification.
Do tell which country you believe Colorado to be in.
Our Homepod Mini in our living room saved our two dogs from carbon monoxide poisoning.
We had a gas fire in that room turned on in the morning and my wife turned it off and then left the house to run errands. I was two floors away in the top of the home and had the door to the room I was in closed. The fireplace while off had a bad valve and was leaking carbon monoxide into the room which caused a nearby detector to start alarming.
But I was so far away I couldn't hear it, I probably also had headphones on and the door was shut as I mentioned so I had no way to hear it. But the Homepod Mini in the same room as the fireplace did hear the alarm and sent a notification to my Phone which showed up on my Apple Watch that it had detected some kind of alarm.
I had no idea it even had that feature so for a few seconds I was like huh? I opened the door to the room I was in to listen and sure enough the monoxide alarm downstairs was going off. I ran down there and it had a little screen showing how much gas it was detecting and the reading was very high.
Our dogs were only in that part of the house with no way to go upstairs and it's possible they may have died if they'd been left there for an extended period so I'm glad we had that Homepod Mini in the room, very scary to think what may have happened if we didn't have that Homepod and we both left the house together, it could have filled the house with gas for hours.
We had a gas fire in that room turned on in the morning and my wife turned it off and then left the house to run errands. I was two floors away in the top of the home and had the door to the room I was in closed. The fireplace while off had a bad valve and was leaking carbon monoxide into the room which caused a nearby detector to start alarming.
But I was so far away I couldn't hear it, I probably also had headphones on and the door was shut as I mentioned so I had no way to hear it. But the Homepod Mini in the same room as the fireplace did hear the alarm and sent a notification to my Phone which showed up on my Apple Watch that it had detected some kind of alarm.
I had no idea it even had that feature so for a few seconds I was like huh? I opened the door to the room I was in to listen and sure enough the monoxide alarm downstairs was going off. I ran down there and it had a little screen showing how much gas it was detecting and the reading was very high.
Our dogs were only in that part of the house with no way to go upstairs and it's possible they may have died if they'd been left there for an extended period so I'm glad we had that Homepod Mini in the room, very scary to think what may have happened if we didn't have that Homepod and we both left the house together, it could have filled the house with gas for hours.
It's normal to have a security camera pointed at the stove.
Have you seen the video? What the CSFD posted to Facebook is here. The camera does not move. The stove is not in the center, it is seen in the side of the frame from across the kitchen.
The clip that was posted earlier here is from the BBC. Any cropping in that clip is because the BBC wanted the video to be viewed on a mobile device. The BBC's browser version of the clip is here and it's different from the mobile clip. What you may think is "proof" of it being staged is simply because the BBC cropped the video clip for mobile.
Be nice. Macrumors has a global audience (I’m typing this from Japan). Not everybody reading MacRumors is from the United States. And not everybody human being in the world knows that Colorado Springs is a city in Colorado, which is a state in the United States.
As mentioned numerous times, this whole story is incredibly suspect. Then you have the matter of the items on the stove. Who the heck leaves cardboard boxes on top of a stove!?!?!?!??
This is clearly a Darwin Award nomination for 2024....
This is clearly a Darwin Award nomination for 2024....
Not sure the insurance will cover an act of dog.
Should we now applaud a family that bought a HomePod but was too stingy to buy three smoke alarms?
Sounds typically American: "I can't afford health protection because I have to buy the latest iPhone."
Four smoke alarms with batteries for ten years cost $36 on Amazon.
In my country, these smoke alarms are even mandatory.
Sounds typically American: "I can't afford health protection because I have to buy the latest iPhone."
Four smoke alarms with batteries for ten years cost $36 on Amazon.
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In my country, these smoke alarms are even mandatory.
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Apple Intelligence, and generative AI in general, will surely have some confidence that a fire is actually happening and call the fire service themselves yeah? I mean eventually.
If Siri is involved, I really have compassion for the fireservice.
They will get a lot of fake calls.
Wonder what the sentence will be for the dog?