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Using a hot spot at a remote site for a relative. Used my android phone to connect and setup the nest hub max. Now it wants to ring in, as well as the hub max. Thats a no go, and this location won't have a android phone with the hub, it was our objec...

Need help , mother gave me her nest max

So my mother gave me her nest max but on her google home app the device isn’t on there as she never transferred the app from her old phone to the new one. None of us remember the account information. Is there a way of seeing what account it’s linked?...

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Samkeeley by Community Member
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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,...

Si by Community Member
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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 

Johnjon by Community Member
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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?

mtroxell by Community Member
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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...

Quikmark2 by Community Member
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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 ...

Alexmcgraw by Community Member
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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 ...

88josh by Community Member
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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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