The Nest app used to allow you to schedule notifications to only happen at night. When Google migrated Nest Cameras over the the Home app, this function was no longer possible. As many people have pointed out here and elsewhere, this rendered most of the "Smart" capabilities of these cameras useless: you can choose to either be spammed all day by Google Home at every camera event (eg every time your kids run back and forth on your lawn), or you can completely disable notifications.
Years later, instead of fixing this astoundingly stupid degrading of their own product's basic functionality, Google has implemented a bunch of fancy new automation features (routines) that amazingly yet again fail to restore this basic functionality to the Nest cameras. There is no way to create a timed routine to turn on/off push notifications for camera events!
At a certain point, one begins to wonder whether the Nest/Home teams are full of morons, or if they are intentionally hobbling a basic function of their own tech (perhaps to sell it back to us again as a subscription service...?). Why does Google seem to want to keep us from making their Nest cameras work? In short: are you flakes or are you evil?
