Nest Secure

The Nest Secure alarm system includes Nest Guard, Nest Detect, Nest Tag, and the Nest app. You can customize Nest Secure to fit your abode, change settings with the Nest app, get a reminder if you lot leave home without setting the alarm, and more.

How it works

Nest Secure placement and detection

Nest Secure includes 1 Guard (the brains of the system) and 2 Detects (small multi-purpose sensors). Both can sense motion.

  • Guardcan sense move from people walking up to 10 feet (3 m) away.
  • Detect tin can sense movement from people walking up to 15 feet (4.5 g) away.

The Nest app asks whether yous want to install Detect on a door, window or wall. It can sense unlike things depending on where information technology's installed:

detect on door image detect on window image detect on wall image
On a door On a window On a wall
Nest Detect tin
sense when a door
opens or closes, or
when someone
walks nearby.		 Nest Detect tin
sense when a
window opens or
closes.		 Nest Find can
sense when someone
walks nearby.

Detects motility
In room or hallway

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Detects open up-close
(requires open-close
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Number of Detects needed for your dwelling house

How many Detects you install depends on the size and layout of your habitation too as what you want to monitor. Although y'all can have upwardly to 30 Detects in your habitation, well-nigh homes don't demand most that many. Placing simply a few Detects in strategic spots tin can all the same embrace the areas where an intruder is likely to go.

Where to place Detects

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Installing Detects from the Guard

You can identify Detects upward to 50 anxiety away from Guard, just the range can vary depending on your home'south structure, wireless interference and other factors.

If 1 or more than of your Detects can't connect to Baby-sit after you've installed them, the app volition show them as offline. Y'all tin can add a Nest Connect to help bridge the gap.

Nest Connect will extend the range of your connection between your Guard and Detect. This will permit you to identify your Observe more than 50 feet away from your Guard.

FAQs about Nest Connect

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Professional installation

Yes. Nest Secure is designed to be easy to install yourself, but y'all could have a Nest pro do it for you lot.

Nest Pros are contained contractors who have access to exclusive preparation and tools for Nest products, so they can help you evaluate the needs of your home and your family, and go the nearly out of your installation.

Annotation: Nest Pros are a network of contained companies or contractors and are not employed past Nest.

UL certification

Use Nest Secure

Arm and disarming

There are several ways to arm and disarm Nest Secure.

  • Use the Nest app when you're home or away.
  • Hold Tag on Baby-sit to tag in and out.
  • Enter your passcode on Baby-sit'south keypad.

Arm and disarm Nest Secure

Nest Secure has iii arming levels. Here'south a summary:

 Secure guard keypad

Security level

What happens

What's detected

Notifications

Off

Nest Guard off

Utilize when yous don't desire security.

The alert doesn't audio.

Open up or close

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Home and Guarding

Home guard icon

Use when yous're home and want security.

The alert sounds when a door or window opens.

Open or close

Motion (optional)

Alarm and security alerts

Away and Guarding

Away and guarding

Use when no one is home.

The alert sounds when a door or window opens, or when there's motion in a room.

Open or shut

Motion

Alarm and security alerts

Nest secure videos

Arm and disarm with the Nest App

How it works with pets

Nest Secure is dog-friendly. If you have a pocket-size to medium sized dog (under 40 pounds), you can follow the instructions in the Nest app to install Nest Secure to accommodate your dog. This also turns onReduced Motion Sensitivity mode in the app.

Use Reduced Motion Sensitivity

When Reduced Motion Sensitivity is on, Nest Secure doesn't ignore animals that climb, leap or fly (like cats and birds) because movement that occurs higher above the floor tin be caused past a human intruder. Similarly, a large pet's move and heat signature can expect like a human'due south to Nest Secure.

If you accept a pet other than a small to medium sized dog, you tin can turn off motion detection on some or all of your Detects, and for Guard if needed.

Change Nest Secure settings with the app

Other Nest products don't assistance detect intruders

Other Nest products currently don't trigger Nest Secure's alert.

Nest uses motion detected by Google Nest Protects and Google Nest thermostats to automatically switch to Home or Abroad mode, just non to trigger Nest Secure's alarm. Nest Protect and Nest Thermostat detect occupancy, not intrusion. With intrusion, y'all need to be more than certain that it is a person in the room to avert false alarms. Also, devices must exist certified for security to sound the alarm.

If the Nest camera detects a person, you can receive a Person Alert notification on your phone but the camera willnot trigger Nest Secure to audio the alarm.

Change settings

Customize Nest Secure

Setting countdown timer

Schedule for visitors

Yes. When you invite someone to share access to your home, you tin can give themHome Entry Only access. This means they tin only use the Tag or passcode you assign to them, and yous can schedule when they can arm and disarm Nest Secure. If someone stays too long and the alarm goes off, they won't exist able to turn it off.

Habitation entry schedules and how to change them

Plow off Detect motion detection

Yep, y'all can turn off motion detection for any Notice that'southward installed on adoor if y'all only want open or shut detection. This can be useful for sliding doors with curtains. Curtains can move and prepare off the motility sensor, only you yet might want to know when the door opens and closes.

  1. Open the Nest app.
  2. Tap SettingsSecurity.
  3. SelectHome and Guarding orAway and Guarding.
  4. Tap Motion detection Plough movement detection on or off.

Note: If y'all desire the motion detection setting on a Discover to be the same for both Habitation and Guarding and Away and Guarding, update each security level.

How to change Nest Secure settings with the app

You don't need to worry virtually Detects on windows since move detection is disabled for them.

You can't turn off motion detection for Detects installed on walls since wall-mounted Detects only wait for movement. If your pets are causing a wall-mounted Discover to trigger alarms, a different arroyo might be to install your Detect somewhere else. Our article most moving Discover to a new location will walk you through the process. since motion detection is disabled for them.

Alter passcode

Disable a Tag or assign it to someone else

When something happens

What happens when there's a interruption in

Alarm audio and loudness

Per UL certification, Guard'south siren is gear up at 85 dB at x anxiety (iii meters). It is not adjustable to ensure that it's always loud enough.

In addition, Baby-sit'southward lite ring flashes cherry and says what triggered the alarm and where. For instance, "The window was opened in the main bedroom." This repeats for 10 minutes.

What happens when Nest Secure'south alarm sounds

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How it works during a power outage

Aye. Guard comes with a backup battery that keeps it powered on for at to the lowest degree 12 hoursin instance information technology gets unplugged or your home's power is out. Nest Secure should yet wait afterward your abode and sound the alarm if needed, and your admission to primal security features such as arming and convincing with a passcode or a Tag will remain.

How Nest Secure continues to work if the power goes out

If your home'due south power goes out, your Wi-Fi might go down besides. When yous add professional monitoring with cellular backup, it can allow your Nest Secure to continue to send you lot notifications about security events in your dwelling house.

Learn more than about cellular backup

How information technology works when Wi-Fi is disconnected

Yes. Although Nest Secure uses Wi-Fi for certain things like sending notifications to your phone, it doesn't rely on Wi-Fi to monitor action or audio the alarm. The Detects installed throughout your habitation utilise a dissimilar technology called Weave to communicate with Guard. So, if any of your Detects sense activity, Baby-sit can sound the alert even without a Wi-Fi connection.

However, without Wi-Fi, you lot tin't utilise the Nest app to view and control your alarm system or get notifications. When y'all add professional person monitoring with cellular backup, it lets your Nest Secure continue to send yous notifications about security events. Acquire more than most cellular backup.

Services

No subscription required

Starter packs came with Guard, two Detects and two Tags. You lot'll also need a working Wi-Fi internet connectedness in your habitation, and you lot'll need to download the Nest app. After you gear up and install your alarm organization in that location's no additional monthly fee to use information technology.

An optional professional monitoring with cellular backup subscription is available for Nest Secure. This subscription is not required to apply your Nest Secure alarm system and it's upward to y'all to decide if information technology is right for you lot and your home.

What comes included with Nest Secure

Hither are a few key features that come included:

  • Arm and disarm in three ways (Baby-sit, Tag, and the Nest app).
  • Control your system remotely with the Nest app. Modify settings, set the alarm, and receive notifications if in that location's been a security event.
  • Prepare Remind Me alerts to remind you to set up the alarm when everyone's gone.
  • Automatically use battery fill-in when the power goes out.

Optional services not included

  • Professional monitoring: If Nest Secure sends a notification to your phone, you'll need to respond to information technology yourself. 24/7 professional monitoring is an extra layer of security, provided by our professional monitoring partner Brinks Home Security, that links yous up with trained experts to aid y'all through an emergency. Professional monitoring comes with Cellular Fill-in.
  • Cellular Backup:Cellular fill-in will boot in if your home Wi-Fi goes down. Your Baby-sit and Detects don't rely on Wi-Fi to talk to each other, but Guard needs Wi-Fi to send notifications to your phone. With cellular fill-in your Baby-sit tin can send notifications without Wi-Fi. For more than details, check the side by side question.

Cellular backup

Baby-sit uses Wi-Fi to connect to the internet and then yous can get alerts and manage security settings on your phone no affair where you are.

If your home's power is out or your Wi-Fi goes down, a cellular fill-in subscription can help to make Guard and Detect even more reliable.

Acquire more virtually cellular backup

If yous subscribe to professional person monitoring, a cellular backup subscription is included.

Professional monitoring

Without professional monitoring, it'south up to you to answer to your alarm and call the police force if needed.

Professional person monitoring is an extra layer of security for y'all, provided by our professional person monitoring partner Brinks Home Security. With 24/seven professional monitoring by Brinks Dwelling house Security, trained experts are at that place to help you through an emergency.

When yous subscribe to professional person monitoring, security advisors actively monitor your Nest Secure warning organisation and contact yous if your alarm is triggered. If needed, they tin contact authorities on your behalf to relay of import data to help resolve the situation.

Professional monitoring includes a cellular fill-in subscription.

Learn more about professional monitoring for Nest Secure

Note: Professional monitoring does non include security partner monitoring or agent response for Nest Protect smoke or CO alarms.

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