Nest Aware Confuses Birdsong with Carbon Monoxide Alarms[.md]
I have an external Google Home security camera, and on several occasions now I've received a notification that it's heard a carbon monoxide alarm. This more advanced functionality is available through a premium Nest Aware plan.
The first time it happened, I was understandably worried and poked into my Google Home app to see if I could hear the alarm for myself --- and more importantly if I need to rush home. But I didn't hear anything; just some birds singing in the background. So I scrubbed back to when the event was logged and listened closely. There wasn't an alarm going off, but there was a bird calling loudly nearby.
A tufted titmouse to be exact.
I shrugged it off as a fluke, but just this afternoon it happened again. I shared this with my friends chat and my friend had the same thing happen to him a few days ago. He shared the video with me and, sure enough, it was another tufted titmouse.
Perhaps Google needs to tweak their identification algorithm or training data just a bit so as not to trigger an alert for tufted titmouse calls :-).
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