Enable & Disable Nest Cam Battery by Automation or Script

[Boenne]

I am desperately trying to find a way to turn y nest cam battery on or off by automation or script. 

I manage an Airbnb and would like the cameras to be off when people are in the house and turn  on when nobody is home. I have a smart home panel installed and want to add the option to manually turn the cameras on / off. I am using Samsung Smartthings. Even better if I could automate this when the alarm system is armed. I do not want to give guests direct access to google home.

I have not been able to control the cameras either by a routine, or through any integration. 

I would like to be able to either:

- switch on the camera by an integrated device. E.g. a smart switch

- switch on cameras by a routine

- switch on cameras by direct integration with SmartThings

Is there any way to achieve this?

[ltabor]

Here's how I did this, using a Ring Alarm, Alexa, SmartThings, and Google Home:

1. Create 3 virtual switches in SmartThings (for Disarmed, Arm Stay, and Arm Away)
2. Create 3 routines in Alexa (you'll probably need an Echo device in the home) to turn the three virtual switches on and off as appropriate to sync with the alarm state
3. Create 2 routines in Google Home to tie everything together. This works, and it should be apparent how to modify to make the routine to turn the camera on:

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #
# Lines starting with “#” are comments and will be ignored by the automation.
# Indentation determines hierarchy within the script.
# Visit g.co/home/script-editor-docs for full documentation.
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #

metadata:
  name: Nest Cam Off When Home # Choose a short name that summarizes important starters and actions, like “Sunset lights”.
  description: Scripted automation # Write a detailed description that includes everything the automation does, like “At sunset, on weekdays, close blinds, turn on lights to 50%, and play the sunset playlist on certain speakers.”

automations:
  # “starters” and “actions” are required; “condition” is optional.
  # Use Ctrl + Space to see autocomplete suggestions.

  # ---- STARTERS ---- #
  # Starters describe events that will start the automation.
  # To add more than one starter, duplicate the "- type" section under "starters".
  # If you add multiple starter events, any one of them happening will start the automation
  starters:
    - type: device.state.OnOff
      state: on
      # [available operators: is, isNot]
      is: false
      device: YOUR ARMED AWAY VIRTUAL SWITCH GOES HERE

  # ---- ACTIONS ---- #
  # Actions will start when a starter event takes place and all conditions are met.
  # Actions will start in the order they appear in the script, and with any delay specified.
  # To add more than one action, duplicate the "- type" section under "actions".
  actions:
    - type: device.command.OnOff # Turn the device on or off.
      on: false
      devices: YOUR CAMERA GOES HERE

Obviously you could create a similar routine to sync camera on/off state with any other device that has an on/off state, to adapt to whatever unique setup you have.