Nest Doorbell (battery) cannot link with chime unless it is wired?!

[wesleyfa]

I just purchased the Nest Doorbell (battery) but cannot link it with the Nest Wifi Speakers, saying that "Electronic chimes won't work with your doorbell when it is using battery power", how to solve this problem?!

[MplsCustomer]

@wesleyfa 

The message is poorly worded and causes confusion.

It simply means that if your battery doorbell is NOT wired to an indoor doorbell chime (mechanical or electronic) and a doorbell transformer, then of course it cannot ring that indoor doorbell chime, and the "Indoor chime" option is disabled and grayed out.

If you turn on "Visitor announcements" (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/767245) on your battery doorbell, you should get visitor announcements via Wi-Fi on your Nest speakers, Nest Hubs, and Nest Minis, as long as they are in the same Google Nest "home/structure" on the same Wi-Fi network and are NOT set to "Do not disturb".

[wesleyfa]

Thank you!

[janthadeus]

Hi folks,

wesleyfa, checking in — I hope you've got the answer you're looking for. Let me know if you have more questions in mind.

I appreciate your help, MplsCustomer.

Thanks,

JT

[janthadeus]

Hey wesleyfa,

It's me again. I want to check if you still need help. Don't hesitate to reach back if you do. 
 

Regards,

JT

[wesleyfa]

Hi! It’s settled and thanks a lot!

[janthadeus]

Hello there,

Perfect, we're glad to hear that! As we got our resolution here, I'm going to mark this thread as complete. I'll be locking this thread if we won't hear back from you again in 24 hours. Should that happen, feel free to create a new one if you have more questions or have other concerns in the future.

Cheers,

JT