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...

Pause All Routines?

Is there a command or a switch to simultaneously disable all routines? Looking at days off and vacation days and not wanting routines to bother anyone. Going in and doing them one by one is tiresome and clumsy.

Ledvance SMART+ Bluetooth plugs no longer connecting to Google Home

I have a Nest Hub Max and use Google Home to control several devices (Hue, Arlo, Tahoma, ...). I also have 2 Ledvance SMART+ Blootooth plugs which used to work fine until a couple of weeks ago. One day, my routines (to switch them on and off at speci...

Won’t pick up 1 of my 2 bulbs

I can’t seem to get one of my smart bulbs to work with my Google Home. I can’t get it to turn on at all with my assistant, and it won’t turn on in the application. I have disconnected it, reconnected it, removed the account from it, added back, but o...

Nest thermastat 3rd gen not heating

I installed my nest thermastat but there is no heat coming from the vents. Cool setting works but heat doesn’t blow. Followed the instructions but I can’t figure out why the heat isn’t working… heat was working just fine on old thermastat. How can I...

Whats the point of Google Home, add a “home”

As a user, why am allowed to have multiple “homes”? Asking this because it seems to raise a lot off issues when two homes are involved. I bought my mother a google assistant, TP Link bulbs, Hue lights, and I visit fairly often despite the drive. I as...