Google brings Nest Hello support to the Home app

Google announced this week that it’s rolling retired enactment for its Nest Hello doorbell successful the Google Home app. This allows you to transportation Google’s archetypal video doorbell camera — aka, the Nest Doorbell (wired, 1st gen) — from the Nest app to Google’s Home app. Google is besides bringing its store doorway detection diagnostic retired of Public Preview, making it disposable to each users with compatible hardware. This uses a Nest Cam to alert you erstwhile your store doorway is near open.

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

Garage doorway detection doesn't necessitate further hardware, dissimilar a smart store doorway controller, which mostly needs to beryllium wired to your store door’s electrics. All you request to bash is constituent your compatible Google Nest cam astatine your door, either from the wrong oregon extracurricular (Google has instructions for mounting it up). However, it can’t power your door; it tin lone archer you its status.

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

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

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

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