Google brings Nest Hello support to the Home app

Google announced this week that it’s rolling retired support for its Nest Hello doorbell successful nan Google Home app. This allows you to transportation Google’s original video doorbell camera — aka, nan Nest Doorbell (wired, 1st gen) — from nan Nest app to Google’s Home app. Google is besides bringing its car shed doorway discovery characteristic retired of Public Preview, making it disposable to each users pinch compatible hardware. This uses a Nest Cam to alert you erstwhile your car shed doorway is near open.

Garage doorway discovery launched past fall successful Google’s Public Preview — a nationalist beta wherever users tin effort retired upcoming features — but is now disposable to each Nest Aware subscribers successful nan US and Canada. (Nest Aware starts astatine $8 a period / $80 a year.)

Garage doorway discovery doesn't require further hardware, dissimilar a smart car shed doorway controller, which mostly needs to beryllium wired to your car shed door’s electrics. All you request to do is constituent your compatible Google Nest cam astatine your door, either from nan wrong aliases extracurricular (Google has instructions for mounting it up). However, it can’t power your door; it tin only show you its status.

Nest Hello users will soon spot an action successful nan Nest app to transportation their video doorbell to nan Google Home app — if they’re successful Google’s Public Preview (you tin enroll here). This will fto you negociate nan doorbell and position recorded videos successful nan Home app (currently only disposable successful nan Nest app), and link your doorbell to different devices successful Google Home to usage it pinch automations — including utilizing camera events arsenic triggers.

The doorbell, which first launched successful 2018 has been discontinued successful nan US but is still disposable successful nan UK, presently shows unrecorded video successful nan Home app (if you’ve migrated your Nest relationship to Google). However, you needed to usage nan Nest app for recorded video and different features — specified arsenic doorbell ringing alerts. This modulation should bring astir of nan doorbell's usability to nan Home app. You tin transportation it backmost if you want — but you won’t beryllium capable to entree it successful some apps simultaneously anymore.

Google has been moving its legacy Nest cameras to nan Google Home app for a mates of years now, but it’s been a slow process. So far, nan Nest Cam Indoor (wired, 1st gen) and Nest Cam Outdoor (wired, 1st gen) person made it over. The summation of nan Hello will beryllium a invited 1 for galore users.

Google says it’s “actively moving to modulation further Nest devices into nan Home app.” Those still missing see nan Nest Cam IQ indoor and nan Nest Cam IQ outdoor — these tin show unrecorded footage but require nan Nest app to position recorded video. The Nest Protect fume alarm is besides still only accessible successful nan Nest app. Google will not beryllium transitioning nan OG Dropcams and Nest Secure system, arsenic it ended support for these products earlier this year.