What UI? You plug them in and, you hope, never think about them again except to change the batteries once every couple years. Why would I want a better relationship with my smoke detector? It's there to detect something that virtually never happens.
That's if things go well. But when they don't, smoke detectors are incredibly frustrating. They'll beep randomly and you won't know which one is doing it. They'll start blinking red and you won't know why. Or they'll go off in the middle of the night for no good reason. Maybe I just need higher quality smoke detectors.
I have 2 features that I'd love to see in a smoke detector:
1) notify me when the battery level is low so I don't have to think about it
2) allow me to snooze the smoke detector for 15 / 30 minutes if I end up smoking up the kitchen
I have a smoke detector that goes off every time I'm cooking anything that smokes slightly…or that produces a significant amount of steam. This means that I have to step away from the stove to silence the damned thing, and that increases the very real risk of a fire because I'm in the middle of actually cooking something that could burn if I'm not actively watching it.
I want a better relationship with my smoke detector because I can't trust it to tell me when something really has gone wrong.
