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Doorbell Won’t connect to wifi

Jslin32
Community Member

I recently redid our Wi-Fi settings so our nest doorbell had to be reconnected with our new wifi. No luck so i removed the device from my home app and been trying to reinstall and connect the doorbell with my Wi-Fi but nothing is working. I’ve been resetting the doorbell by pressing the button on the back. The Wi-Fi is working and within reach but not sure what else to do?,

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RXShorty
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Hi @Jslin32 

Sorry to hear you are having issues with the doorbell.
While resetting the Nest Doorbell, did you press and hold the button for about 10 seconds? 🙂

More information about the factory reset.

MplsCustomer
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@Jslin32 

With the older Nest cameras, we could go into the Google Nest app and change Wi-Fi settings. With the newer cameras and doorbells in the Google Home app you can't.

Now, Google Nest recommends that when you get a new router/modem, you give it the same network name (SSID) and password as on your old router/modem because "In the Home app, Wi-Fi information for cameras and doorbells can’t be updated, so you’ll need to factory reset your device and set it up again in the app. In most cases, you’ll remove your device from the app and add it back."  That's because they have no way to change the Wi-Fi settings except through a factory reset.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9223711?hl=en#zippy=%2Cuse-the-google-home-app%2Ctry-th...

This same Google Nest Help page says that if you cannot re-use your old network name and password, then you need to use "Remove Device" in the Google Home app while you are on your old Wi-Fi network, then do a factory reset (if it didn't factory reset automatically), and then add it back on the new Wi-Fi network.  See the instructions.

Many customers find they can't make the process work because they didn't remove the camera from the Google Home app while they were on the old Wi-Fi network and are now caught in a dilemma with the camera being inaccessible because it still has the old Wi-Fi settings.  They have to resort to contacting Support (https://support.google.com/googlenest/gethelp) and hope they find someone knowledgeable to resolve the dilemma.

EmersonB
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Community Specialist

Hello everyone,

 

@Jslin32 I just wanted to follow up and see if the steps above work? Let me know if you have any additional questions from here.

 

@RXShorty and MplsCustomer thanks for your helpful response.

 

Best,
Emerson

Jslin32
Community Member

The above steps worked! Thanks so much! 

EmersonB
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi Jslin32,

 

Awesome — glad to hear that and thanks for getting back to us. We'll then go ahead and lock this thread after a day. If you have any new issues, updates or just a discussion topic, feel free to start a new thread in the Community.

 

Thanks,
Emerson