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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...

Home and away routine

Hello,recently my home and away routine has been malfunctioning. Periodically my phone and/or my iPad Pro will switch to away mode which shuts down everything i. e. Lights, AC, etc. I have to manually change iPhone, iPad Pro back to Home mode to turn...

Deleting old linked accounts

I have smart plug from a company that use to go by the name DF SmartPlus and they changed the company name to DGM Smart. So I had to reset up the link between the DGM Smart app and Google home and now when I say "ok Google turn off double lamp" she r...

One or more device is not available, please try setting it up again.

Hi there, I have a 3 gang Smart Life light switch set up in my bedroom, and the same one in my sisters. We both have google home assistants, and when we first got them and set them up, the assistant worked perfectly in tandem with the light switches....

All Google Home and cast devices disappear

This is getting to be somewhat of problem with Google. Out of my entire home ecosystem, every one of my home and cast devices (20+), disappear all of the time. I am a Sr Wireless Network Engineer and have an enterprise wireless network (Cisco) at hom...

Google Assistant will not open my Chamberlain Liftmaster garage door

I have a new Chamberlain Liftmaster garage door opener with the myQ app linked to my Google Assistant account. The commands work to close the garage door and to check on the status of the garage door but the command to open the door gets an error mes...

Can not start routines manually on iOS

I can not start Google Home Routines manually (by clicking on it) on iOS. Am I missing something? When I click on it, the edit screen appears.

smart home device

We have developed a Bluetooth-BLE device, and want to connect to Google assistant directly with bluetooth, not with wifi, cause our device is battery-powered.Besides, we have our device connected to Alexa using bluetooth directly success in the way o...

GE bulbs and plugs never stay connected and almost never

We are continually rebooting the Nest Audio and Nest Minis that are in the same room as our "works with Google" Cync bulbs and plugs. This fix only holds for a few hours before the lights stop responding again. The last straw was this morning: sun is...

NEST OFFLINE FOLLOWING UPDATE TO IOS 15

I am unable to reconnect Nest which was working fine. I have tried FOLLOWING I reset Network settings then restart. I was getting. I was getting message Network error/W5

None of my devices show up under "Works with Google"

I've used the Google Home app in the past to link devices that "work with Google", such as Belkin WeMo switch, Lutron Caseta switches, and Globe smart plugs. Those devices, since they were already added, show up fine in the Home app in the rooms they...

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Home and away routine

Deleting old linked accounts

One or more device is not available, please try setting it up again.

All Google Home and cast devices disappear

Google Assistant will not open my Chamberlain Liftmaster garage door

Can not start routines manually on iOS

smart home device

GE bulbs and plugs never stay connected and almost never

NEST OFFLINE FOLLOWING UPDATE TO IOS 15

None of my devices show up under "Works with Google"

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