[samtho]

It always struck me as strange that AirBnB never went in the direction of providing a simple base station with a CO/CO2 detector, noise sensor, Wifi AP (for IoT locks, lights, etc). I know the whole “hardware is hard” thing but you can surely find a vendor already selling something like this that’s most of the way there and can be white labeled.

I suppose on the flip side, rental gig economics is often predicated on the fact that corporate provides as little as legally or even ethically possible.

[Etheryte]

For starters, the place you're supposed to install your CO2 detector is not the same place where you're supposed to install a CO detector.

[amluto]

I have the distinct impression that there is a bizarre legal/regulatory problem with this: safety devices need to comply with local regulations, even when those regulations are inconsistent or weaken safety. For instance, in the US, a UL-listed CO detector must not alert at problematic-but-not-immediately-dangerous levels. So you end up with absurd hacks like this:

https://www.kidde.com/home-safety/en/us/products/fire-safety...

That’s a real name brand device that is not a CO detector because it does not meet the UL requirements.

I can easily see AirBnB not wanting to get involved.

(Also, there are properties listed in multiple services, and maybe the owners/managers don’t want to put in special gadgets for each service. And maybe people who rent their own home and live in it some of the time don’t want the AirBnB cloud intruding.)

[OfSanguineFire]

Hardware is doubly hard when you are as international as AirBnB. Wifi has to conform to local regs with regard to channels and tx power. I wouldn't be surprised if there were varying local regs for CO detectors, too.

[4death4]

I mean plenty of companies do offer these things, so likely you’d just subcontract out to them. And it’s not like you need to offer everything everywhere all at once.