Learn about sound detection for speakers and displays

With a Nest Aware subscription, your Google speaker or display (Google Home Mini, Google Nest Hub, etc.) can pick up the sound of any smoke or carbon monoxide alarm and send you lot an alert from the Home app. Your speaker or display tin also allow yous know when it detects glass breaking (such equally a window) in your dwelling house. That style, your speaker or display can notify you when something happens, even if you lot're far away.

How to turn on Sound Detection

Of import things to know

  • Sound detection does not let your speaker or display find fume or carbon monoxide. It tin only detect the sound of a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm. Sound detection is not a replacement for an alert system and cannot contact emergency services, such every bit the police or fire department, on your behalf.

  • You must have a Nest Aware subscription and a US address saved in the Dwelling house app to use sound detection on your speaker or display.

  • Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm and glass breaking detection isn't bachelor with a 1st gen Nest Aware subscription.

  • Yous need the Home app to turn on sound detection for your speaker or display and change settings.

Other devices

Nest cameras can also detect sounds and notify you lot. To learn more, read our article about Nest camera's motion and audio detection.

Nest Secure can also observe glass breaking. Read Secure's glass intermission detection commodity to acquire how it works and how to set it upwardly in the Nest app.

How sound detection works

With sound detection, your speaker or display tin can notify you when information technology detects the sound of whatever smoke or carbon monoxide alarm or glass breaking, even when you're away from home.

For example, if yous're gone just have left something on the stove, the smoke alert in your home should go off when it detects smoke. With a Nest Aware subscription, the speaker yous accept in the same room as your fume alarm can discover the sound your smoke alarm makes.

Your device records the alert and saves the audio clip in the Dwelling house app. If y'all take notifications turned on, you'll become a notification from the Home app.

You tin can use the notification to go directly to the sound detection upshot in the Feed. From there, you can only tap the sound detection event to review the sound clip in the Home app. You can even listen to alive sound to effort and verify the audio of an alarm in your home.

If needed, you can use emergency calling in the Home app to quickly contact a 911 call center shut to your home, fifty-fifty if you're very far abroad.

Your speaker tin work the same way if it were to notice the sound of a glass window breaking in your abode. That fashion, if in that location is an intruder, you can contact emergency services to dispatch assistance to your home.

Requirements to use sound detection

  • A Nest Aware subscription. Sound detection is not available with a 1st gen Nest Aware subscription.

  • The Domicile app

  • An address in the United States

  • Any of the post-obit speakers or displays:

    • Google Dwelling house

    • Google Home Max

    • Google Nest Mini

    • Google Home Mini

    • Google Nest Audio

    • Google Nest Hub

    • Google Nest Hub Max

    • Google Nest Wifi point

Placement guidelines for sound detection

For the best audio detection results, your device should exist in the same room as a smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, or window.

If that'south non possible, your device should have line of sight to the alarm or window. This means that walls, doors, and piece of furniture should non block sound from the warning or window to your device.

View sound detection events in the Home app

In the Home app, you tin find and select sound detection events to review audio clips your speaker or display has recorded.

From a notification

You tin use the notification to get directly to the sound detection event in the Feed. From there, you tin can simply tap the sound detection event to review the audio clip in the Home app.

In the Feed

The Feed is the section of the Home app that shows the events your supported Nest products detect. Learn more about the Feed in our help centre.

  1. To go to the Feed, tap in the lesser right corner of the screen.

  2. Find and select the sound detection upshot to open the sound prune. You may take to curl down to observe the sound detection effect you lot want.

    • Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm and glass breaking events volition automatically show upwardly underPriority events at the top of the Feed.

    • Older smoke and carbon monoxide alarm and drinking glass breaking events will move underRecent events in the Feed.

In progress alarms

If your display or speaker detects a smoke or carbon monoxide alert and the event is In progress, information technology will prove up at the top of the Home app. The ongoing audio detection effect will exist at the top of the Feed.

Dismiss a sound detection effect

When you lot dismiss a sound detection outcome in the Feed, it will move to the elevation of Recent events.

  • If a sound detection event is in Priority events in the Feed, tap Dismiss.

  • If your speaker or brandish has detected a smoke or carbon monoxide alert and the effect is In progress, it will appear at the top of the Feed. Go to the Feed And then tap Dismiss Dismiss icon on the event.

View Habitation history

Y'all can go to your home's history to view and filter audio detection events. This is helpful if you want to view events that are non as recent and won't appear in Priority events or Recent events.

  1. Go to the Feed.

  2. Select Get to history at the top of the screen.

  3. Apply the post-obit filters in Dwelling history to specify the kind of activity you want to review:

    • Device

    • Result type

  4. Observe and select the sound detection result to open the sound clip. You may have to curlicue downward to find the 1 y'all desire.

Sound clips

Select a sound detection consequence in the Domicile app to open the sound prune captured by your speaker or display.

Delete an sound clip

  1. Tap a sound detection upshot to open its sound clip.

  2. Tap Options in the height right corner of the screen.

  3. Select Delete audio clip.

Listen to live audio

If a smoke or carbon monoxide alert or glass breaking event happened recently, you can Listen alive to hear what your speaker or brandish is detecting.

Note: When you begin to listen live, the device's speaker will announce that someone is listening live.

  1. Select a sound detection event to open its sound prune.

  2. Tap Listen alive. You'll be able to heed to alive audio for up to iii minutes.

Use your telephone'due south microphone to speak through your device

When listening to live audio, tap Microphone Microphone icon to turn on the microphone, then speak. Tap it again to plough off the microphone.

Use emergency calling

If you lot're listening to live audio in the Dwelling house app, you tin tap Emergency calling to call emergency services near your home.

Note: Make sure emergency calling is enabled in the Home app. If it's disabled, you won't see the choice to apply emergency calling.

Learn how to utilise emergency calling

Alter settings for your speaker or display

Go to sound detection settings in the Home app:

  1. Tap Settings in the Home app.

  2. Choose Nest Aware.

  3. Select Sound detection. From there, you'll be able to change sound detection settings.

Read the sections below to acquire how to change specific settings.

Turn sound detection on or off

Note: You need to turn on the microphone for your speaker or display for sound detection to work.

Once y'all turn sound detection on, you tin do the following:

  • Choose which sounds tin be detected.

  • Select which speakers and displays participate in sound detection.

Note: These settings will apply to everyone in your dwelling house. Dwelling house members cannot set their own sound detection preferences. However, each home member can set their ain notification preferences.

  1. Tap Settings in the Home app.

  2. Choose Nest Aware.

  3. Select Sound detection.

  4. Toggle the switch to turn Sound detection on or off.

Change which sounds you want to be detected

When you change which sounds you desire to be detected, it will apply to all speakers and displays you have set with audio detection.

  1. Tap Settings in the Habitation app.

  2. Choose Nest Aware.

  3. Select Sound detection.

  4. Under "Sounds," cheque or uncheck the box next to Fume alarms, Carbon monoxide alarms, and Drinking glass breaking to ready the sounds you want your device to discover.

Fix which devices participate in audio detection

When you change which speakers and displays participate in sound detection, information technology volition apply for all home members. A home fellow member cannot individually ready which devices participate in audio detection.

  1. Tap Settings in the Abode app.

  2. Choose Nest Aware.

  3. Select Sound detection.

  4. Under "Devices," toggle the switch to turn sound detection on or off for each device.

Change notification settings

Each domicile fellow member can choose whether to receive notifications when a device detects a smoke or carbon monoxide warning or glass breaking in your home.

  1. Tap Settings in the Dwelling app.

  2. Choose Nest Aware.

  3. Select Sound detection.

  4. Tap Audio detection notifications.

  5. Toggle the switch next to Smoke alarms, Carbon monoxide alarms, and Drinking glass breaking to plow notifications on or off for each sound.

Troubleshoot

If sound detection isn't working on your speaker or brandish, become to our Troubleshoot sound detection article.

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