Notifications on phone when doorbell is pressed

[tac1]

This topic has been posted before and closed, but the solution does not work.  I want a separate notification for when the doorbell is pressed, not just if someone walks by.  Is Google Nest working on this?

[MplsCustomer]

@tac1 

You should get a notification on your phone when the doorbell is pushed if you have "Push notifications" turned on in your doorbell's settings, and if you have notifications enabled for the Google Nest app or Google Home app (depending on your doorbell) on your phone.

[tac1]

To clarify, there is not an option for a notification for when the doorbell is pushed. There are 5 options: People, Package, Animals, Vehicles, & Motion. I only want a notification if someone actually pushes the button, not if they walk close to the bell. 

[MplsCustomer]

@tac1 

Google Nest does NOT provide a separate option labelled anything like "button push" for its doorbells. On our older Google Nest Hello Doorbells in the Google Nest app, we have to check "Push notifications" under "Notification type" to get notifications for doorbell pushes. If we don't want any other notifications, we separately turn those off.

I understand that the 2nd Gen Google Nest Doorbell also has a "Push notifications" option in the Google Home app.

[EmersonB · Accepted solution]

Hello everyone,

@tac1 thanks for posting here in the Community. There's a push notification option dedicated to receive notifications about alarms, errors, critical updates, and battery status. You may see this when you open your Google Home app> select your Nest Doorbell and go to settings> notifications> here you can turn on or off the Push notifications option. Below that, you'll see the options for people, packages, animals, vehicles, and motion and they have a separate switch to toggle. In case you don't want to get notifications from these categories, you may disable them and just turn on the Push notification option so that you'll get notified when someone presses your Nest Doorbell. Hit this link for more information. Let us know how it goes.

I appreciate the help, MplsCustomer.

Best,

Emerson

[janthadeus]

Hey there,
 

Cool, we’re glad to hear that! Thanks for sharing the steps that resolve your doorbell notifications issue — it's a big help. 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. 

Thanks for the help here, MplsCustomer and Emerson.
 

Cheers,

JT

[tac1]

Thank you Ebedia. This works. 
For any others who have the same query, it is simple but not obvious, so I’m repeating it. If the only notification you want is when the doorbell is pressed, keep the push notifications toggle on and uncheck people, packages, animals, vehicles, and motion. You will get a notification when the doorbell is pressed.