Home Automation

Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Hey Nest Community, We wanted to provide an update on the animal detection starters for scripted automations. When we first launched support for camera events in the script editor, there were separate animal detection starter types for dog and cat de...

Waiting 6 years for a feature is ridiculous. I'm sick of nest speakers screaming at me!

Simply put, we need to be able to control media and assistant's voice separately.How do google developers not understand that humans communicate/talk at different volumes than we listen to music and watch movies?Do you honestly think people go around...

Nest Protect wired showed as power out after new protect was installed

I installed 4 nest protects in my house and they worked well. So I bought 2 more and replaced the last two smoke detectors with nest protect. After I finished the installation, 2 out of the existing 4 protects showed as "Power Out". I tried to reset ...

"Unavailable devices" after wake up alarm

"My Google Assistant Hub says after waking up alarm that 'one or more devices are unavailable. It might be a good idea to try again.' Several times. It's quite anoying. How do I solve this problem?"

Google Home Automation not working well since Google Podcast migrated to YT Music

Since Google has migrated away from Google Podcasts and moved them to YT Music I have had difficulty accessing my subscribed podcasts using automated routines. I have a voice command routine that increases the device volume to full, plays the weather...

Sleep stories without phone and with earbuds

Hello, I love the Calm app sleep stories but I've got to get my phone out of the bedroom - it is too distracting to have it there at night. I also need to wear earbuds so as not to disturb my husband.I know the google products are speakers so maybe t...

Can't push notification to lock screen

I have a Samsung A32 phone and I have tried to set up 3 security cameras and none will push a notification to the lock screen. The lock screen notification is on and I get a chime but no notification to click on. The latest attempt is a Geeni Hawk3 a...

Thermostat reset while I was at work

I had the thermostat set as it always says 73°. We had a thunderstorm, but I know the power didn’t go out because nothing was blinking in the house so I came home and it was 78° in the house. Been trying to reset the device, but it just stays on temp...

Intermittent loss of Google Voice command to control Powerview shades

Over the past 4 ot 5 years since I have installed my Hunter Douglas Powerview shades I have had an intermittent issue with Google voice commands dropping connection with the Powerview app. When this happens and I address my Google Hub Max instead of ...

Nest hello not connecting to google home

Hello. I’ve just had an electrician come and install my nest hello wired version. I’ve noticed after he’s left, the chime connector isn’t connected. The camera is working perfectly, can stream and save everything. The issue I’m having is, when the do...

Unnamed Offline devices on Nest WiFi

There are a lot of Unnamed devices on the Google Wifi and it keeps growing. The original issue was created back in 2021 and it's still an issue. Even worse, Google locked the discussion to stop people from talking about that. Can someone from Google ...

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Waiting 6 years for a feature is ridiculous. I'm sick of nest speakers screaming at me!

Nest Protect wired showed as power out after new protect was installed

"Unavailable devices" after wake up alarm

Google Home Automation not working well since Google Podcast migrated to YT Music

Sleep stories without phone and with earbuds

Can't push notification to lock screen

Thermostat reset while I was at work

Intermittent loss of Google Voice command to control Powerview shades

Nest hello not connecting to google home

Unnamed Offline devices on Nest WiFi

How to change Assistant app "Play the news" automa...

Cannot get a routine to turn off multiple things

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Gemini for Google home

Door bell ring camera and Google nest camera

Home automation schedule starter only uses the fir...

Connecting other apps to Home

“SECURITY BY DESIGN’ FOR Nest CAMS - a priority

Automation not working with some devices

Recovery to Gmail account