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Nest Floodlight Camera's full history is suddenly not available

sbeeps1
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My Nest floodlight camera worked fine for just over a month. Live feeds, notifications, and history was available. Suddenly for the past 2 days my full video history is not available, but everything else is fine. When I click on full video history the previews show a box with "!". When I click the "!", no video is available and it reads "This video isn't available yet, Check back later." What is going on? I the have nest aware subscription. 

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MplsCustomer
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@sbeeps1 

It could be that this is due to your free 30-day trial subscription to Nest Aware, which comes with each camera, just ran out. If you select your camera in the Google Home app, and go to Settings and then Video, under "Video history" does it say anything about your trial subscription expiring?

under Video - there is no video history listed. When I click Nest aware it mentions I have a 30-day event subscription and I remember paying the full year to get the discount. Plus is have other doorbells and cameras that have a recorded full history, just the floodlight isn't showing the full history. Could it be that the power cable is loose and not fully inserted to the camera on the floodlight? There is an infinity symbol showing power so not sure that is the problem. 

@sbeeps1 

You may need to talk directly to Google Nest Support. Unfortunately, you'll need to start here: https://support.google.com/googlenest/gethelp

With our Google Nest Camera (Battery), which is similar to the camera part of the floodlight camera, we also get an infinity symbol for our camera, which has been plugged in since we got it in Sept. 2021, so that sounds normal. (If we unplug it, the battery shows at 100%.) But other customers have posted oddities in this forum about their floodlight cameras.

When I go to Settings | Video for our battery camera, under "Video history" it says: "60-day event and 10-day video history"; we have a Nest Aware Plus subscription.

I'm just another customer and so can't tell what's going on with your subscription. It seems that if you buy a paid subscription DURING the 30-day free trial subscription, it only starts after the 30-day trial ends, so maybe the paid subscription doesn't even show up until then. We had a Nest Aware Plus subscription BEFORE we got the battery camera, and history worked for the new battery camera from the beginning. But, like I mentioned, people have reported oddities with the floodlight camera.

I'm also able to check my Nest Aware Subscription here, including the expiration date: https://support.google.com/googlenest/gethelp

This Google Nest Help page below lists what Google Nest says you get without a subscription ("Free Tier") for each camera and with each level of subscription for each camera.

In either the Google Home app or the Google Nest app, you can check your Nest Aware subscription level by selecting Settings | Nest Aware.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9681538

In addition, you can get Nest Aware only in these countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States (except Puerto Rico) (https://support.google.com/store/answer/2462844#nest_aware)

That's all I know.

MplsCustomer
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@sbeeps1 

There's another post I've been watching (https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Cameras-and-Doorbells/Nest-Cam-Outdoor/m-p/106263), where the customer also wasn't getting video playback, in this case for their battery camera. They just reported that after a long session with Google Nest Support, Google Nest is going to replace their camera.

sbeeps1
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I was on the phone with Google support for 55 minutes and eventually was ghosted by the representative. I'll try a restart and/or reset. I'm not sure what else to do. I'm leaning towards a faulty camera that simply stopped the recording feature. 

Brad
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