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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...

Speaker Group is not available for automation

Hi! Although I can voice command to play music to my home speaker group and it works, there is no choice to choose this speaker group when I try to create the routine automation. I can choose each of speaker but no selection of home speaker group, wh...

Routines requiring address

When creating a new routine and I try to add an automatic starter to the routine like turning on or off at a certain time, I am given a prompt that an address needs to be added in order for that starter to be used. I'm then given the option to add th...

Error 404 when editing Routine

Any time I try to wait a custom routine/automation, I get a Error 404: The requested URL was not found on this server. This happens with every routine/automation. I had uninstalled and reinstalled the app. I have opened the app on my wife's phone, an...

Starter device doesn't recognize all the events of my device

Hi Community,I have bought 3 different devices to measure the temperature and humidity of a room.They are SONOFF SNZB-02 ZigBee Temperature Humidity Sensor, ‎Offfay ‎WiFi Hygrometer Thermometer Sensor, and Govee WiFi Room Thermometer Hygrometer.All o...

My Nest Hello Doorbell is Peeling

My Nest Hello door bell camera is peeling and the lense has started to fog. It seems reading these forums this is a known problem. Given I have three Nest products and the cost incurred to purchase them I'm not happy at all.

Spot price control

Hey everyone!Has anyone looked into the possibility to run a script that retrieves the spot price off electricity in your area and turns things like smart electrical sockets on/off controlling the usage of electric power?Is there even a possibility t...

Issue with Google mini gen 1

I move a few days ago and can’t work out how to change the assigned rooms so I factory reset the 2 Google Minis and ran through the setup .. it fails after it does the update and says to test by say Hey Google .. it tells me the google device is not ...

How to manage Chromecast connections

4-5 years ago I was at a friend's house in Michigan, USA, who let me connect to his Sonos sound system to play music. I don't remember how it worked, but as long as I was connected to his Wi-Fi I could play music from my laptop on any of his system c...

Aladdin connect garage opener

I just recently installed an Aladdin Genie garage opener. I don't have an issue with using Google Assistant to open the garage but it will not close when asked. When asked, it states "garage door not available". I have searched for an answer to fix t...

Automation event relative to >4 hrs before sunset

Looking for way to program an automation to turn on a smart outlet that powers a light 14 hrs before sunset each day of the year and then turn off at 730 am. The Home app only has before sunset option up to 4hrs. Thanks.

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Speaker Group is not available for automation

Routines requiring address

Error 404 when editing Routine

Starter device doesn't recognize all the events of my device

My Nest Hello Doorbell is Peeling

Spot price control

Issue with Google mini gen 1

How to manage Chromecast connections

Aladdin connect garage opener

Automation event relative to >4 hrs before sunset

Tapo camera goes to information screen

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

Cannot get a routine to turn off multiple things

Automatisierung nest mini 2

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