Name the signal you actually selected
Write the light color, face, symbol, display change or sound your exact clock will use. A silent visual cue and an audible alarm are different choices: one shows a signal; the other also plays an alarm. The planner keeps that choice in the caregiver instructions.
Do not assume green always means the same thing across models, or that a sound-machine track is an alarm. The model pages describe supported controls. Your cue description is a household note, not a claim that the clock can produce any color or sound you name.
Use your household’s own words
Fill in the cue meaning, what your household expects before the signal, and the person to contact when help is needed. Add the exact sentence each caregiver will use. These fields start blank because the explanation belongs to your household.
The clock is a signal, not a way to prevent someone from asking a caregiver for help. This page supplies no age threshold, bedtime, sleep duration, waiting interval, reward system or promised change in sleep or behavior. Your selected times remain your own.
Choose a documented way to show the cue
Write how you will show the actual signal before relying on the schedule. Use the preview or test path in the exact manufacturer instructions; if none is documented, ask the manufacturer which path preserves your saved setup. Do not improvise a reset, power interruption or temporary routine and assume everything will return automatically.
For example, the Nanit Sound + Light app documentation includes a routine sound-and-light preview before saving. That is evidence for Nanit’s own app flow, not a universal button sequence for other clocks. Confirm your intended schedule and mode are still enabled after any change.
Record the brightness, volume and lock checks that matter to the people using the clock. These are your observations. We have not tested menu clarity, sound quality, stability, lock resistance or durability.
Write what happens when the clock is unavailable
Choose a household fallback for a stopped cue, lost internet, unavailable phone or missing account access. Keep that instruction separate from the device’s documented power behavior. A memory cell can retain settings while the light stops; an operating battery can keep a cue running for its available runtime.
Use the power guide for the hardware distinction and the caregiver-access guide for invitations and device teams. Neither substitutes for the fallback your household chooses.
Keep one cue card with the schedule
The planner’s optional household cue card includes: the selected signal, its meaning, what happens before it, a help contact, the shared caregiver phrase, your preview plan, an outage/access fallback and when you will review whether the wording is understood. There is no sleep or behavior score.
Choose a clock and your own times, then add the card in the schedule planner. The same wording appears on screen, in the downloaded text and in print. Saving is optional and stays in this browser. The site does not send these personal notes to a server.
A manually started nap countdown still needs its own activation step. The cue card adds a shared explanation; it does not program the device or create an extra clock setting.
Manufacturer references
Material reviewed 2026-09-07. Specifications can vary by generation and region.