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Heads up: Philips Hue Change Impacting Scripted Automations!

Hey everyone,We wanted to keep you in the loop about some recent changes related to Philips Hue sensors that might impact your scripted automations. Philips Hue has updated their sensor device configuration to use the TemperatureSetting trait (previo...

Advanced home automation (dimming lights)

Hi What I’d like to do using a voice command, is to say the command (e.g. watch a movie), for my WiFi lights to gradually dim. I get that I could do this manually, by adding a command like lights 99%, lights 98% etc, with a one second delay. However,...

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Do i need a c wire

Do I need a c wire as I already have a grey wire in slot 1 

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Trigger routine on facial recognition

From what I see you get information but you cannot directly trigger a routine based on facial recognition. This would be such a powerful feature of Nest camera's. Does Google have any plans for this in the future?

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Use nest hub gen2 to improve wifi reach

Hi. I have a Nest wifi router and 3 wifi points, but still a weak signal in some areas at home. According to Google, my 2 Nest Hubs (gen2) are Thread Border Routers. How can I use the nest hubs to improve my nest wifi mesh network ?I was hoping the N...

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Nest wired camera not available with routines

So if my understanding is correct, you can add your camera to the Nest app (if it’s and older camera) and that way you can turn on the camera at a certain time. **Such as 8pm indoor camera turns on automatically, home or not** But seeing as I have a ...

chromecast "optimise full screen" appears erratically

Hi, My objective is to get videos to reproduce on my chromecast, and not in my chrome browser. When casting from google chrome on my M1 macbook air to my google chromecast 3, I will occasionally get a pop up asking if i want to optimise streaming by ...

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Cync light strips

I just bought these light strips and got them set up but when I see it in the app it says it's offline and not responding. Not sure where to go from here.

Assistant voice keeps reverting to default

In the last few weeks, my assistant's voice, which I have set to one of the male voices, will randomly switch to the default female voice. It has happened on several devices, but most frequently on a newer hub. This is not only annoying, but there ar...

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Google nest is a scam

Googles camera only holds 4 hours of memory on the app. That mean if you sleep in a hotel sleeping and your house gets broken into roughly after you goto sleep, the footage will be gone by the time you wake up. Complete money scam and waist of money!...

Plejd and Google Home problem

Hey guys. First post here. I need some help with my plejd system. I got everything running in the plejd app. I also got HomeMatic floor heating and Ikea app for a few things running. All the gadgets are working in GH but the plejd system shows offlin...

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