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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...

Automation Script: Restore previously set temperature after turning the thermostat down

Dear all,I just started playing with the Automation Script Editor and just asked myself if it's possible to restore a previously set temperature set before a door has opened.Thanks in advance!

Good night routine stalls on alarm clock page

I start the good night routine, and it just stalls on the alarm clock page. I have to manually touch a button on the screen to actually save the alarm clock. What?Additionally, I have to manually select the light-waking function and to start my good ...

Good Morning Routine: traffic from home to work is not played

Options and Automations are unreliable.

Sleep summary prevents Good Morning routine.

The title says it all. Google home is by now one of the worst possible products to have bought into. Dumb **bleep** like this shouldn't make it through QA.

Google Nest Hub Max doesn't work properly now

Recently, I shifted my house hence doing a resetting as my google nest hub max still holding some information of my previous house network and data. Decided to do a factory reset, however after I did so, my setup in my new house with the new network ...

Stopping audio reponses when responding to commands

Hi all.I have a couple of lights attached to my Google Home, and I'm planning to add more. However, I do get a little annoyed at the rather superfluous "OK, I'm turning two lights on" announcement when I can see that the lights have turned on.Is ther...

Nest Cams don’t work with automation

So I just signed up with ADT for security monitoring and they sold me some Google Nest cameras as well. Finally figured out how to connect ADT to Google Home. I’m new to Google Home and automation and have been very disappointed so far. I want to hav...

Nest Labs billing problem!!!!!!!!!

I actually spoke to a few customer service agents. The first agent I was hung up on, So i called back. The second agent was not helpful, I would like to believe that when you have a billing issue, and a closed g-mail account that name, last 4 of CC, ...

Hub max and youtube (videos) output sound to blietooth speaker

ok so when clicking youtube on the device (not yt music) it plays the video and the audio from the hub, i want the audio to come from my bose speakers (either wifi or bluetooth).....Ive already set default speakers to bose, and it works fine for you ...

Script Editor Announcements on Speakers

I am trying to write an automation script that makes an announcement on my speakers that use google assistant. When writing the script using assistant.command.Broadcast i get an error that the device i selected isn't supported. However If I go on the...

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Automation Script: Restore previously set temperature after turning the thermostat down

Good night routine stalls on alarm clock page

Good Morning Routine: traffic from home to work is not played

Sleep summary prevents Good Morning routine.

Google Nest Hub Max doesn't work properly now

Stopping audio reponses when responding to commands

Nest Cams don’t work with automation

Nest Labs billing problem!!!!!!!!!

Hub max and youtube (videos) output sound to blietooth speaker

Script Editor Announcements on Speakers

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