Battery Outdoor Nest Camera

[Hooser]

I just installed a new Outdoor Nest Camera and while I can find it in the Home App, I cannot find nor add it to my Nest App.

[MplsCustomer]

@Hooser 

Sadly, the new Google Nest cameras and doorbells introduced starting in the fall of 2021 work ONLY in the Google Home app and NOT in the Google Nest app OR on the home.nest.com website. (We discovered this the hard way when we bought a Google Nest Camera [Battery] in Sept. 2022.).

Google Nest's VP and GM posted this rationale for this approach for the new Google Nest cameras back in Sept. 2022:
https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Blog/Message-from-our-GM-Updates-for-our-Nest-customers/ba-p/...

[Hooser]

Thank you.  So there is no way to see this camera on the computer, only the phone via the app.

[MplsCustomer]

@Hooser 

Incredibly, yes. (Some customers have reported downloaded BlueStacks and using that to run Google Home on a PC or Mac.  I haven't tried it.)

The Sept. 29 blog post by Google Nest's VP promises this: "And we’ve also been working on rolling out a desktop experience for the Google Home app, so the new Nest cameras and doorbell feeds can be viewed and controlled from there. This will launch in 2022." But there has been no further update at all from Google Nest since that post.

[SteveT1]

Hi folks,

I'm afraid this feature is not available. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us and we're always looking for ways to improve. We'll take this as feedback and pass this information to our team. Let me know if I can assist you with anything else, otherwise I will be locking this thread in 24 hours.

Regards,

Steve