Trigger smart lights by Nest cam

[dutrahom]

I couldn’t find a way to use my Nest Cameras to activate a smart light. 
The smart lights are completely functional through Google Home App, as the cameras. But I was not able to create an automation to turn light on once Nest Indoor camera detects movements. 

in summary: all devices are working as expected, as all scenes, except Nest triggering the Smart lights (in my case Sonoff). 

[EmptyNester · Accepted solution]

Hello Dutrahom,  I just tried it and it worked for me.     I went to Home.Google.Com and created the following automation.     I then went into the Google home app an viewed the video from this camera clicked on the 3-dots in the upper right corner and then NOTIFICATIONS and made sure PUSH notifications were ON and also went into one of you ZONES and scrolled all the way to the bottom and turned ON the MOTION option.   I saved the automation  and ACTIVATED the automation on the home.google.com page. I then walked passed the camera and the light came one.

Here is my script:

metadata:
name: Turn on light when camera see motion
description: Turn on light when camera see motion
automations:
- starters:
- type: device.event.MotionDetection
device: Outside camera - Cameras
actions:
- type: device.command.OnOff
devices:
- Dining Room Pool Wall Switch2 - SWITCHES PLUGS
on: true

Let me know what you think.  Does this help?

[dutrahom]

Hi!

Thank you so much for this great help. I tried this script as soon I got your reply and it is working very well.

Before your reply I was trying to create the automation using the App only and that was to reason to not find my Nest Cameras. I still don't understand why the traditional way to create an automation is not working (I mean directly at the App). I used the App in all other Automations and never had any problem, except at this attempt with Nest Cameras. 

I am now proceeding creating new scenes of automation with all other cameras to activate smart lights, speakers, air conditioners,  ... 

Again, many thanks for this great and fast help! 🤜 🤛

[EmptyNester]

Glad I could help.   I have never tried in the app because I just don't like working on a tiny screen.   But yes, it should work (I would think).

By the way,  I found a separate section of this forum that is dedicated just to automation.  The folks there seem to be really knowledgeable and I actually picked up a few tricks.   One of them is after the light  turns  on you can have  it turn OFF after x-number of minutes.

Here is the link:

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Home-Automation/Use-person-detection-to-trigger-light-then-tu...