Within Nest protect it will give you a warning alert and then fire alert.  I'm trying to program within Composer Pro 2.6 to have the lights flash yellow for warning and red for fire.

 

 

The NEST gives the state in a form of a string variable - so you would need to use an IF statement based of that variable

In the Nest Protect driver itself, you would program off of:

 

WHEN SMOKE_ALARM changes (or CO_ALARM depending on what you want.

IF variable SMOKE_ALARM equals emergency {you'd have to type emergency, or any of the others itself}

-do what you want.

 

For either SMOKE or CO there are three possible values expected to be return, therefor you can program based on:

-ok

-warning

-emergency

 

For completion:

BATTERY has:

-ok

-replace

 

UI_COLOR has:

-green

-yellow

-red

 

Those represent the LED colors

 

ONLINE is a boolean so you just have a true/false option.

Thanks a BUNCH!!! couldn't figure it out to save my life!

Don't worry you'd have to know the exact strings to use it.

I'm sure 95% of dealers wouldn't know it - even though it's all in the driver documentation tab visible within ComposerPro (but who reads a manual let alone a documentation tab )

I read the doc's from time to time. But I find it easier to ask just in case if I run into issues.

The problem with asking is that even those of us who *wrote* the info on the Documentation tab can't remember it.

 

 

That's always the first question I ask if someone has issues with any of my drivers: "Did you read and follow *all* the instructions on the Documentation Tab?"

 

RyanE

The problem with asking is that even those of us who *wrote* the info on the Documentation tab can't remember it.

 

 

That's OK Ryan -we all get older

Since the latest version of the driver was updated last October, may I assume that it works for both generation of the Protect ?

Thank you in advance,

Matteo

The NEST drivers do not talk to the devices themselves, but rather to the online system - generation is not an issue.