Picture part of screengrab from the former nest.com (now part of Google)

I recently added a new wireless network to my house – a Netgear router that spits out wireless at twice the rate of my (admittedly old) Cisco/Linksys router.

I currently have both networks running; the idea is to slowly move all the devices in the house over to the new network one at a time so nothing has down time: Laptops, smartphones, iPad and so on. When everything is safely switched over, pull the plug on the old router.

Yesterday, I switched over my Amazon Fire Stick to the new network; no problemo.

When I went to update my smoke detector – a Nest Protect – it was a little weird. It was easy to navigate to the list of available networks and punch in the password and all, but afterwards there was no indication of just what wireless network it was attached to. The new network was at the top of the list of available networks, but no check mark or what have you to explicitly say what network the smoke detector was talking to (since both the old and new are currently active, hard to say). And when I re-added (?) the new network, I still had to enter a password. Shouldn’t it remember the networks that have been previously added, like smartphones do?

For a device that is otherwise a case study in intelligent – and beautiful – design, this is a weird oversight. End of the world? Decidedly not. But surprisingly odd.