Nest Protect does not meet the standards being introduced in Scotland in February 2022

[rgaila]

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Original Poster: Douglas McClymont 

Are Google introducing a Heat only detector that will interlink with existing smoke and CO alarms to meet the requirements of the standards in Scotland. I have 4 alarms and will need to bin them if a heat only option is not available by February. Google are missing a great sales opportunity here.

[neeb]

Google need to sort this out immediately - the nest system will be NON-COMPLIANT WITH THE LAW in 4 or 5 months time.

[sbaillie69]

same - posted on another thread my comments.  Needs to see some action from google on this otherwise everything needs to go in the bin!

[R4dbridge]

Looking forward to a solution am invested in the Nest eco system but have stopped buying Nest until this issue is resolved. Gradually buying other compatible cameras and before long will have reached the tipping point, away from Google Nest entirely. It's a real shame as a simple engineering solution is easy for a heat only sensor but despite years of requests and lots of posts that the Google Community moderators keep closing down, we are still waiting for a heat detector to meet Scottish law, UK building regs and also US garage fire protection, i'm led to believe. Come on Google please be a little more transparent with your plans on this one. Many Thanks

[shaft120]

For those asking for a 'kitchen' location setting on Nest Protect Gen2, which would allow the smoke detection to be switched off, and temperature alarm to remain in order to comply with Scottish regs.

Whilst I would also like to see this, and don't know why a Google intern couldn't write the firmware upgrade in an afternoon to fix the whole of market problem, I don't think it will solve the Scottish regs issue. 

In addition to having interlinked alarms and the kitchen not being allowed to have a smoke detector, the Scottish regard also require:

1) " Battery operated smoke alarms to be non-replaceable and non interferable"

2) For interlinked alarms to operate on a shared radio frequency, not Wi-fi.

This apallingly bad legislation is apparently to prevent kids removing batteries and in case a fire starts in the WiFi router. FFS. So all battery operated alarms have to have 10yr power sources where the alarm is thrown away once out of power.

[Jake]

Hey all,

Sorry for the late reply. I wanted to follow up and ensure you are good to go. Please let me know if you are still having any trouble from here, as I would be happy to take a closer look and assist you further. 

Best regards,
Jake

[shaft120]

Thanks Jake. Nobody in Scotland is good to go. It's now illegal for Nest Alarms to be used in Scotland. Reasons in my post above.