Google now enables you to handle Nest Cam IQ indoor and outside cameras — which have been each launched in 2017 — by means of a public preview within the Google Residence app, which means that you may now technically handle all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Residence app as a substitute of the Nest app.
Google has been slowly making it potential to convey Nest cams into Residence over the previous 12 months and alter. If you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Residence, you’ll be capable of “evaluation video historical past in occasion and timeline views, entry digital camera settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Residence apps,” Google says. From Residence, Google additionally enables you to view reside streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.
You may be a part of the general public preview from contained in the Residence app or at residence.google.com. “In case you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you’ll see prompts in each the Nest app and within the Google Residence app beneath the Favorites Tab with directions once you’re capable of switch your Nest Cam from the Nest app to the Google Residence app,” Google says. Entry will begin to roll out this week. And if you wish to reverse switch your Nest Cam IQ indoor and outside cameras again to the Nest app, you’ll be capable of do this, in accordance with Google.
Google additionally now enables you to handle any Nest Hub Max gadgets from the Residence app should you’re enrolled within the public preview. Nevertheless, in contrast to with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, should you convey Nest Hub Max gadgets into the Residence app, you may’t switch them again to the Nest app.
