Google now allows you to handle Nest Cam IQ indoor and out of doors cameras — which had been each launched in 2017 — by means of a public preview within the Google Home app, that means that you could now technically handle all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Home app as an alternative of the Nest app.
Google has been slowly making it doable to deliver Nest cams into Home over the previous yr and alter. When you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Home, you’ll have the ability to “overview video historical past in occasion and timeline views, entry digital camera settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Home apps,” Google says. From Home, Google additionally allows you to view dwell streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.
You can be part of the general public preview from contained in the Home app or at house.google.com. “If you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you’ll see prompts in each the Nest app and within the Google Home app beneath the Favorites Tab with directions whenever you’re capable of switch your Nest Cam from the Nest app to the Google Home app,” Google says. Access 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 have the ability to try this, in line with Google.
Google additionally now allows you to handle any Nest Hub Max units from the Home app in case you’re enrolled within the public preview. However, not like with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, in case you deliver Nest Hub Max units into the Home app, you’ll be able to’t switch them again to the Nest app.