Google now allows you to handle Nest Cam IQ indoor and outside cameras — which had been each launched in 2017 — by way of a public preview within the Google Dwelling app, which means which you could 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 potential to convey Nest cams into Dwelling over the previous 12 months and alter. If you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Dwelling, you’ll be capable of “assessment video historical past in occasion and timeline views, entry digicam settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Dwelling apps,” Google says. From Dwelling, Google additionally allows you to view reside streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.
You possibly can be part of the public preview from contained in the Dwelling app or at house.google.com. “Should you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you’ll see prompts in each the Nest app and within the Google Dwelling app below the Favorites Tab with directions while 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 outside cameras again to the Nest app, you’ll be capable of try this, based on Google.
Google additionally now allows you to handle any Nest Hub Max gadgets from the Dwelling app for those who’re enrolled within the public preview. Nevertheless, in contrast to with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, for those who convey Nest Hub Max gadgets into the Dwelling app, you may’t switch them again to the Nest app.