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Calling all developers!

Take your cool idea to the next level because the Google Home APIs Developer Challenge is ON! This is your chance to get hands-on with the Home APIs and craft an exciting app or feature that will wow users, inspire fellow builders, and land you some ...

Welcome to the Smart Home Developer Forum!

Hey Nest Community, Welcome to our Smart Home Developer forum! This space is for developers to discuss, collaborate, and ask questions about their Smart Home integrations using Google Home Cloud-to-cloud, Local, or Matter APIs. Once you post, fellow ...

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Resolved! Question about product development with Nest mini.

My company is a design house , we are developing a fall detection radar, we want to connect it with Google Nest mimi. When the radar detect a person fall, the Nest mini will ask the person if he is fall. If the person say yes, the Nest mini will send...

kenneth1a by • Community Member
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Resolved! Shutter Vs Blinds in Google Home APP

Shutters and Blinds devices share basicaly the same traits.My question is : why in the google home app , blinds devices let you see it's exact state or percentage and you can issue commands simply by clicking on it , while Shutters don't , you can't ...

Resolved! Socially Connecting Different Nest Homes

I am a developer and I am exploring ways of making different homes more socially connected. In this particular use case these homes belong to my mother (who lives 100 miles away), my sister (who lives in a different country) and my own family home.Fe...

Jinkos by • Community Member
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Resolved! Matter client support

How will google home say support a third-party controller - like a remote control? One that implements client side of Matter?Will integration go through routines? Or will devices be able to directly talk to eachother without going through Google API ...

JohnDoe2 by • Community Member
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Resolved! SDM Error 400 "Precondition check failed."

Hi there,I've been running through the steps described here: https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/authorizeAfter creating a new Project, generating an Oauth2 cred, linking with a new Device Access Console I'm unable to get past step 4 of ...

Cringely by • Community Member
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Resolved! Device naming issues [Updated]

How come it registers the same device name but it doesn't say this device when displayed in device section nor can I find these devices and they all say the same device name what could be the problem also my password keeps getting changed and my phon...

Bossman1 by • Community Member
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