Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The whole reason I bought Nest smoke detectors was to avoid being woken up at 3a when the battery is low. The website says “count sheep not chirps”. But it chirps when it needs new batteries and there’s no heads up. You’d think that with the promise of a talking smart alarm that it would say “this is a warning that you’re battery is low”. Or that it would send you a notification on your phone, since there is an app after all. Or that it would at least send you an email alert that the batteries are low. After all, I get marketing emails and a monthly “home report” email. Nope. The only thing it does it put a message in a message center in the app a couple days before the batteries are about to run out. So you’d only know if you were checking the app all the time. Here I am again getting woken up at 3a with a chirping smoke alarm, but having spent $100 instead of $50.