Video Review of the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm – HT149

Posted on Sat January 4, 2014Sat April 22, 2023 by Jim Collison

Gordon Schmidt (@GWadeTech) and Kevin Schoonover(@schoondoggy1979) join Jim (@jcollison) for show #149 of Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network.

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Needed to exchange the battery version out for the wired/battery version
Service Desk at Lowes didn’t have a clue
Second person at Lowes Service Desk new of the thermostats but not about the Nest Protect
Manager thought there was a battery version only and only the stock that was on the end cap
An employee passing by knew more about the Nest products and where they were kept in the store
Took about 30 mins to exchange at Lowes all because they didn’t have a clue and poor stock placement

Setup

Remove blue tab to wake up and start the connect process
Interesting how Nest uses your mobile device only to setup and activate the Nest Protect

Light Ring

Green – to let you know all is good when you shut the lights off
White – notices movement to light your path at night w/o having to turn on lights at night
Red – smoke detected
Yellow – when the battery is low or sensors have expired

Heads Up

Hush – wave to hush

Testing

Click button to test
Click again within 10 seconds to activate a test

Emergency Contacts setup

A smoke detector in a room tells me if there is smoke in that room. A network of detectors can give me an early warning of an issue in another part of the house.

Do you have a family fire escape plan?

Fema fire safety

http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/fa-130.pdf

Smoke alarm code for all states

http://www.ajfire.org/uploads/smoke_alarm_requirements.pdf

Closing bedroom doors can save lives

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/07/04/3-on-your-side-closing-doors-helps-in-fire-survival/

I love the Nest Protect, but here are other choices

http://www.firstalert.com/detectors/battery/wireless-smoke-co-alarms/sco501cn-3st

http://www.kidde.com/KiddeWireless/Pages/KiddeWirelessFAQs.aspx#.UsG01vQV7E0

http://www.security.honeywell.com/hsc/products/intruder-detection-systems/life-safety/wireless-smoke-detector/

http://simplisafe.com/home-security-shop

Only thing missing from the Protect, explosive gas detection.

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