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Home away automations disabled if someone is 'looking after the house'

Lloydos
Community Member

Hi guys,

 

Happy new year all!

 

I have a question regarding google home and some devices I have in my house;

Philips Hue, Abode Smart Alarm, Nest Cameras & Google Home.

 

All is well when either me or my wife are at home, or indeed going about our current working day leaving and coming home with the automations to turn off and turn on alarms, lights & cameras.

 

It is when we have a guest over to look after the house and kids when we are out everything becomes a pain. We get notifications the alarm is trying to arm, cameras turn on and the lights continually turn off even after beeing switched back on. Up until recently our Hue automations were within the Hue app, I have since moved these over. Nest cameras automation is within google home. Our Abode automation is still within the Abode app as it still seems to be the most reliable with regards geo-location.

 

It makes sense to me that whatever is required to add a 'valet mode' should be within google home as this speaks to all appropriate devices. 

 

Have you guys any idea how such a thing could be implimented? Perhaps a button on the way out or a remote trigger?

 

Any help much appreciated

Lloyd

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kabylewolf
Community Member

how comfortable are you with inviting your house sitter to your google home as a "house member" for the interim of their house sitting? 

The downside is that they would have full access to your google home. If you trust them not to dork around with settings, I'd say this is probably your easiest solution. 

If you have a nest doorbell, you could set them as a familiar face and also trigger your automation system to respond to recognized faces. But that's been a bit hit or miss in my experience. 

Go to your google home app, and click "invite home member" 

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kabylewolf
Community Member

how comfortable are you with inviting your house sitter to your google home as a "house member" for the interim of their house sitting? 

The downside is that they would have full access to your google home. If you trust them not to dork around with settings, I'd say this is probably your easiest solution. 

If you have a nest doorbell, you could set them as a familiar face and also trigger your automation system to respond to recognized faces. But that's been a bit hit or miss in my experience. 

Go to your google home app, and click "invite home member" 

Many thanks for this solution, I wouldnt have an issue doing this so it is certainly a work around. The people are close family so this wouldnt bother me, however not tech savvy at all so perhaps could end up being a bigger pain than not 😆

GarrettDS
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey folks,
It looks like we have come to a solution so I'm going to be locking this thread. If you have any other concerns or questions, please feel free to create a new thread.

Have a great day.
Garrett DS