Nest Cam Indoor 1st Gen vs Google Indoor Cam 2nd Gen Web Viewing Experience

[hikpt]

We currently have (4) Nest Cam Indoor cameras and we login to home.nest.com where we view the live feeds of all 4 cameras at once.

What are the benefits of migrating our Nest account to a Google home account?

Would we still be able to view our 4 camera live feeds on the same screen as we are able to with home.nest.com?

Would we be able to add additional Google Nest 1st gen Indoor cams or would we have to go with Google Indoor Cam V2?

[MplsCustomer]

@hikpt 

We migrated our Nest Account to a Google Account in 2020 so we could get a "Nest Aware Plus" subscription. Because we have several cameras and doorbells, the price for that subscription is less than the older 1st gen Nest Aware subscriptions that are priced based on how many cameras you have.  And we still use the Google Nest app for our 1st gen camera and doorbells.

[nest-user]

The only benefit to migrating a legacy Nest account to a Google Home account would be the all-in-one Nest aware subscription that covers all cameras (if you have more than 3-4 cameras) vs legacy Nest Aware per camera subscription.

You can still access both 1st Gen and 2nd Gen cameras with a single Google account if you've migrated a legacy Nest account to a Google account, the difference is in the way the 1st Gen and 2nd Gen cameras are viewed/managed.

1st Gen cameras only work in the Nest App (you can migrate the 1st Gen Indoor and Outdoor wired to the Google Home app now but you lose a ton of features)

2nd Gen cameras only work in the Google Home App.

The features you lose from migrating 1st Gen cameras from the Nest App to the Google Home App is too much, see below:
- https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Cameras-and-Doorbells/New-quot-Nest-quot-cameras-DO-NOT-WORK-...
- https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13038234#zippy=

TLDR: Google Home mobile app and website (home.google.com) is still not on par with the same features for cameras as the Nest mobile app and website (home.nest.com).

[EdmondB]

Hello everyone, 

@hikpt, checking in — we hope you've got the answer you're looking for. Let us know if you have more questions in mind. 

Best,
Edmond

[dwlongacre]

I recommend staying with nest. I migrated and now the price has changed and I lost all my features I had to less. Only 7 days 24/7 video now. And only with the higher (almost doubled price) subscription. I'm fixing to say goodbye to Google nest.