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Updates on Nest Protect and pending Scottish legislation changes

Hey everyone, I appreciate everyone’s patience as they’ve shared their feedback and questions regarding the pending Scottish legislation changes. We’re aware of the proposed legislation changes to the fire and smoke alarm standard in Scotland requiri...

RachelC by • Googler
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how to disable the old smoke detector?

I have bought a Nest Protect smoke detector (battery) to replace my old smoke detector. but I take off my old smoke detector, there are four wires connected to it, two are power, two are alarm relay connected with a resistor. When I removed those wir...

Simonsky by • Community Member
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Best Protect alerts

Hi - hoping someone can help, please! I have just connected a nest protect smoke alarm. I want that to send me alerts and ideally call me if there is an issue while I am away, with the app set to ‘away’. Can’t see how to set this.

Emz by • Community Member
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Nest Protect smoke detectors

Every day for the past 3 days one of my nest protect smoke detectors has gone offline and cannot connect to Wi-Fi. I cannot get them to reconnect. My wifi is working fine. Is anyone else having this problem and how do I fix it?

Jms1977 by • Community Member
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Nest Protects online but flashing yellow?

Hi there,I have 3 Nest Protects in my home. Yesterday, I silenced an alarm in the kitchen (Smokey cooking) and since then the other two Protects in my house are still flashing yellow. If I tap the button on the two that are flashing, it gives me the ...

Pilsco by • Community Member
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Nest thermostat Off line

Hi my nest thermostat has gone off line tried restarting , Wi-Fi working In The house no changes apart from it going offline ??

DF2 by • Community Member
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Nest Protect 2 - Mount Changed

Why change the mount? Going from expired gen 1 detects is all the more difficult. Plus the new mount is much more difficult to attach. Very frustrated right now. Why Google, why why why?

Nest Protect light will not turn on

My Nest Protect, purchased in July 2021, will not activate the light ring. It announced that the light ring cannot turn on. Looking for what to do/how to get a new unit (since it is still well within the 1-year warranty).

GabrielW by • Community Member
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Google Nest

Google why should we use two apps for the nest camera. One is thru Nest and the other one is Google home!why did you do that? Fix this problem this is so dumb!

iOS nest not setting up smoke

I am about install all new smoke detectors in a house I am renovating. I bought one nest smoke detector (hard wired) to test the setup. I have used them in the past, but this time it simply won’t make it through the setup. It pukes when it is trying ...

DougM by • Community Member
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