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HEADS-UP AND EMERGENCY ALARMS
SILENCING
Heads-Up alerts and some Emergency Alarms
can be hushed by using the Nest app or
pressing the Nest button. In some cases, the
smoke level may be too high for the Emergency
Alarm to be hushed. Only silence an alarm
once you have checked conditions at the Nest
Protect that first sounded the alarm. Do not
silence Nest Protect by removing the batteries.
This will disable the alarm so it cannot sense
smoke or carbon monoxide, leaving you at risk.
Because there are many different types of
fires, you may experience an Emergency Alarm
without having first experienced a Heads-Up
alert. This means that dangerous levels of
smoke or CO occurred extremely quickly and
Nest Protect has to sound the Emergency Alarm.
HAVE MORE THAN ONE NEST PROTECT?
After all the Nest Protects in your home are
connected to each other, if there’s a Heads-Up
or an Emergency Alarm in one room, they’ll all
tell you what the danger is and which room it’s in.
If multiple Nest Protects are interconnected,
a Heads-Up alert or Emergency Alarm can be
silenced only at the Nest Protect that originally
sounded the alert. You’ll need to go to that room
to silence all the Nest Protects in your home.
Always check the conditions near the Nest
Protect that first detected the smoke or carbon
monoxide before silencing it.
ALERTS
When Nest Protect has something to say, it
will speak to you in words and light up instead
of just beeping. Nest Protect has two kinds of
voice alerts: Heads-Up and Emergency Alarms.
When smoke or carbon monoxide levels are
heightened but haven’t yet reached Emergency
Alarm levels, Nest Protect can sound a Heads-Up
as an early warning. Nest Protect will pulse
yellow and tell you where there’s smoke or
carbon monoxide.
You’ll get an Emergency Alarm when smoke or
carbon monoxide reach critical levels. Nest
Protect will pulse red, sound a loud alarm, and
tell you what room the emergency is in. If there’s
both smoke and CO present, the smoke alarm
will take priority.
