Google now permits you to handle Nest Cam IQ indoor and out of doors cameras — which had been each launched in 2017 — by way of a public preview within the Google Dwelling app, which means which you can now technically handle all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Dwelling app as a substitute of the Nest app.
Google has been slowly making it doable to deliver Nest cams into Dwelling over the previous yr and alter. Once you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Dwelling, you’ll be capable to “evaluation video historical past in occasion and timeline views, entry digital camera settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Dwelling apps,” Google says. From Dwelling, Google additionally permits you to view stay streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.
You’ll be able to be a part of the general public preview from contained in the Dwelling app or at house.google.com. “In the event you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you’ll see prompts in each the Nest app and within the Google Dwelling app underneath the Favorites Tab with directions if you’re in a position to switch your Nest Cam from the Nest app to the Google Dwelling app,” Google says. Entry will begin to roll out this week. And if you wish to reverse switch your Nest Cam IQ indoor and out of doors cameras again to the Nest app, you’ll be capable to try this, in keeping with Google.
Google additionally now permits you to handle any Nest Hub Max units from the Dwelling app in the event you’re enrolled within the public preview. Nevertheless, not like with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, in the event you deliver Nest Hub Max units into the Dwelling app, you possibly can’t switch them again to the Nest app.
