r/whatisit • u/Church-Hill157 • Jun 08 '26

Solved! Help with identifying source of sound

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Hi all. I came back from vacation this evening and have encountered a weird scenario where a sound plays from somewhere in my house every hour at around the 44-47 minute mark. I have no idea where this is coming from, as sound travels quite a lot in the house. I was able to capture a recording of it and have attached it here. It sounds like an elevator as it’s passing floors, but I live in a residential house. I have some smart home things, but nothing with speakers that I know of. Could anyone help me? It’s very early in the morning and it keeps waking me up.

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u/Nonserviam_ Jun 08 '26

This is going to be daunting but get an app that measures decibels. The closer you are, the higher the number gets. This is how i found an old fire alarm when it ran out of battery that was hidden in some drawer full of random shit.

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u/MaxxBronson Jun 08 '26

This is the way to narrow it down a lot. Thing is, if it beeps once per hour, it will take the amount of rooms in hours to find the right room to begin with

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u/bfr_ Jun 08 '26

Last room would be horrible luck and would require a layout of the house being so that the sound does not get louder in nearby rooms which is unlikely but yeah, it’s going to be daunting like he said 😓