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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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nest protect relay base

I need to connect my nest protect to a relay base to shut off a ventilation fan in my loft if there is a fire. How do I do this??

beme by Community Member
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NVM: False Alarm for Room that Doesn't Exist

The settings for just one of the devices had a "spoken name" different from its location designation. I reconciled the two. I would delete this message, but I can't seem to find anyway to do so.

mwylie by Community Member
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Nest Protect: 2nd Gen Smoke + CO Alarm - Battery malfunction

In 2021 I bought a package of three Nest Protect: 2nd Gen Smoke + CO Alarms, battery powered. A month ago, one of them started making false smoke alarms ("Heads up! There's smoke in the house. The alarm may go off. It's going to be loud.") There was ...

MBrunel by Community Member
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MASTER THREAD for Problems adding multiple Nest Protects

INTRODUCTION4 years and 44 separate threads about this specific issue and still there is NOTHING official from Google that explains exactly what is wrong or how to fix it. There are several different error codes, so it's not clear how many of these a...

Legolad by Community Member
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Remote silencing of low battery alarm

I'm out of the country for 2 months and my app and neighbour tells me the alarm of my Nest Protect is chirping (low batteries). Can I silence the chirp remotely and if not why not?! I cannot be the only person to have this problem. My neighbour is an...

Parasite by Community Member
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History shows sensor failure then sensor restored every day

I have six battery Protects. I just noticed that one has been reporting a sensor failure for over 10 days. I received no proactive notification (which is very concerning). I just happened to look at the app.On each day at 2:00pm, it reports, "There i...

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PaulQ by Community Member
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Solved: Eero Connection to 2nd gen Nest Protect Fails

Moderator edit: Subject updated for clarity and findability. Yesterday I accidentally deleted my Google account and with it all of my cameras, thermostats and Protects. In the past I have never had an issue with a Google product and connections. Rein...

jsr84 by Community Member
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Cannot setup nest smoke detectors after changing wifi.

I changed intertet providers and now all of my nest devices are offline. I need to configure the new wifi on each device but I am unable to connect to the devices from the app. I am following the instructions on the app and it goes and says that it i...

LeoAyala by Community Member
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Protect devices stopped working

I have 4 Nest Protect devices and all worked fine until last weekend when the power went out. When the power came back on, after three days, none of the Protect devices would connect to my Wi-Fi network. I've tried resetting their Wi-Fi connections b...

peters48 by Community Member
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