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Let’s Discuss! Smart Home Automations for Pets

Hey Nest Community,May is National Pet Month in the United States! And as all pet parents know - scaley, feathery, and furry friends are very important inhabitants of your household and can absolutely benefit from the connectedness of a smart home. W...

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Getting help

Nest Hub Max never worked correctly. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all. Why won’t Google replace this defective device? I called support 9 times and always get the Philippine’s. They promise to get me answers but never reply.

Ralph2 by Community Member
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Google Home Ghost Routine - how to remove?

I had a routine that was telling me via my Nest Hub when the dishwasher was done.Sometimes when it was done in the evening, it would randomly play on other devices like the Nest Mini in my son's room, waking him up (the routine was set to only be act...

Google home mini

I have a Google home mini. I constantly lose my phone. I have the app on my phone. I use the "find my phone" feature. It has worked plenty of times before. Know it appears I have 3 or 4 phones on here. All my phone. All my number. I think it's when I...

calendar event to trigger automation

Hello,I would like to start an action based on a google calendar event. There is a suggestion that this can be done but i cant see an available action or how you would link it to your acount.how can i do this?for example. On monday if event then swit...

Andybrad by Community Member
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starting home automation routines automatically

Hello,I am trying to develop some basic automation routines within google home. I am using the web based script editor.When i create a routine that works off a switch for example the routine works fine. However i am trying to start it from the humidi...

Andybrad by Community Member
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YI cameras not showing in Google Home

HiI have 5 YI home cameras in my house bought at different times. I have successfully added my YI account to Google home but it is only showing 3 of the 5 cameras in Google home. I have tried resetting and uninstalling / reinstalling the cameras but ...

Fatbob by Community Member
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Google Nest Dropcam Cameras Not Supported

There are so many Google products that are unsupported. For example recently they sent out a notice saying they aren’t going to support users of dropcam and dropcam pro. And in just a few months they won’t allow the cameras to be operational on our n...

Multiple conditions in script

Just starting to play with Google Home scripted automations and am having trouble with the correct syntax/indenting for an automation that has multiple conditions. Anybody have a valid example that they can post (or a link) to an automation with mult...

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