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...

Cyber bullying andnsmart devices

While our doorbell met with foul wind play and has a smashed camera it now appears that the three minute video length is being shortened. I feel my husband is being bullied and deliberately rang the doorbell before the bully arrived and now iltgwew i...

Legacy Dropcam replacement.

Don't judge me. My Dropcam has been dutifully working for too many years to count. That is until I upgraded my home network. Dropcam still works, but the legacy install instructions no longer work. Tried to Google it and found out that I should have ...

How to lock Google mesh from kids

I recently started buying smart devices for our home. At first I was having my partners 11 yr old help me set things up, so he has the Google Home app on his phone. In hindsight it wasn't a great idea because I just set up Google Mesh and we want to ...

Missing speakers

I have eight speakers which were all connected to my Google home at one point (Google home minis, or Google mesh hubs with speakers). They were in different speaker groups, but now I can only see two of the speakers in the groups. If I tap on one of ...

Cannot edit or delete Routines

I added some steps to my google home Good Morning routine and now I want to delete those steps out. There is no way to edit or delete the steps nor is there anyway to delete the routine all together. I have tried on my iPhone, iPad and my Android pho...

Could not reach Philips Hue. Please try again.

I've read all of the threads. I've tried all of the "solutions". None of them work. Why can't Google home interface with Phillips Hue?

Assistant beep persists on Google pixel 6

I want to use voice activated assistant on my pixel 6, but cannot abide the beep when I say hey or okay google. As suggested, I toggled off the open mic and close mic notification in assistant settings under accessibility, but nothing changes!!Fwiw, ...

Google Chromecast

For last 6 Chromecast / App for KAYO SPORTS will not STEAM live IPhone and IPad fine . Then normal GOOGLE TV Apps drop out / freeze after viewing a movie . In desperation I bought new the latest GOOGLE CHROMECAST 4K , loaded all ok and still have the...

Nest Hub 2nd Gen can't figure out how to show/start/resume a stopwatch and fails repeatedly

I started a stopwatch on a Google Nest Hub Gen 2, and paused it.I was sitting directly in front of the Hub and said: "Hey Google, resume stopwatch"It restarts a stopwatch on my nearby smartphone, which is setup to respond to "Hey Google". That stopwa...

My google nest won’t connect to Wi-Fi

Everything in my house is connected to the working Wi-Fi but my nest can’t connect. what do I do except throw or bash it?

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Cyber bullying andnsmart devices

Legacy Dropcam replacement.

How to lock Google mesh from kids

Missing speakers

Cannot edit or delete Routines

Could not reach Philips Hue. Please try again.

Assistant beep persists on Google pixel 6

Google Chromecast

Nest Hub 2nd Gen can't figure out how to show/start/resume a stopwatch and fails repeatedly

My google nest won’t connect to Wi-Fi

Cámaras , doorbell

Stop Google home verbal confirmation?

Nest Camera Automation

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Deleting old Fitbit account

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Retrieve old camera footage after Grandma passing

Issue with Google home automation

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