{"id":3213,"date":"2025-05-24T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:01:05","slug":"smartwares-rm149-teardown-smoke-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2025\/05\/smartwares-rm149-teardown-smoke-detector","title":{"rendered":"Smartwares RM149 &#8216;teardown&#8217; (smoke detector)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo for those who want to see what a Smartwares RM149 smoke detector looks like on the inside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149.jpg\" alt=\"[Photo of the insides of a smoke detector]\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/smokedetector-inside-smartwares-rm149-840x560.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I opened one after it produced a false alarm in the middle of the night (apparently you need to vacuum them regularly to prevent bugs or dust from blocking the sensor) to see if I could see the blockage.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see though, the sensor is in its own housing (the round black thing with the pencil marks) and I did not feel confident I could open it without breaking things, so I did not.<\/p>\n<p>The metal plate in the right element lines up with the three springs in the top right of the left element.<\/p>\n<p>The two elements are attached with four plastic clips (seen on the left element) and a small phillips screw (seen peeking through the battery compartment in the bottom right of the left element).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo for those who want to see what a Smartwares RM149 smoke detector looks like on the inside. I opened one after it produced a false alarm in the middle of the night (apparently you need to vacuum them regularly to prevent bugs or dust from blocking the sensor) to see if &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2025\/05\/smartwares-rm149-teardown-smoke-detector\" class=\"excerpt-read-more read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}