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Turnbacktime · 06-29-2023

I have just received an email from Google about the “amazing” new Home app and all the wonderful features. It says I can schedule when my cameras are on. I have been struggling to get this working for months, so the email me prompted me to give it an...

Turnbacktime · 06-20-2023

Wondering if anyone can help. I have an original outdoor Nest Cam that we access via the Nest app and Google Home in various iOS platforms.After several years of working perfectly we are no longer getting reliable event triggers/notifications via eit...

Turnbacktime · 06-11-2023

With the Nest App and my original camera I had two options to control whether the camera was active all the time or not. I could use the presence of my mobile phone to let it know I was at home and turn the camera off. Or I could set a schedule for t...

Turnbacktime · 09-01-2022

This probably isn’t the forum for this so please point me in a better direction if there is one.a couple of weeks ago I let someone use my iPad to log into their Google account to access email and show me some photos. They then logged out.yesterday m...

Turnbacktime · 07-19-2022

I have two Next cams of different generations which mean I still have both the Nest App and the Google Home App on my iPad and iPhone to get reasonable functionality.Is there anyway to get camera notifications appear on my Sony Android TV? There is a...

Turnbacktime · 07-17-2023

Lancethanks for getting back to me. I can confirm that the problem exists whether the mobile devices are on cellular, Wifi at home or away. When it doesn’t work it fails across all devices. We have proved this by double checking with our daughter 150...

Turnbacktime · 07-05-2023

Found the answer to one part of the puzzle. Extremely irritating that it isn’t mentioned anywhere in the documentation I have seen on Automations, the ability to control a camera is only available on household automations not personal ones. Go figure...

Turnbacktime · 07-04-2023

Thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately I have already tried the instructions in those guidelines. I can set up the trigger actions but when I move to the next step, to select the device to be controlled, neither of my cameras appear in the list...

Turnbacktime · 06-25-2023

All notifications are turned on for both Nest and Google Home on all devices. I very much doubt it is a notification issue more like a software detection issue. The camera is set up to notify on person detection not movement. Previously it has been v...

Turnbacktime · 06-20-2023

Emerson. But one of the things I asked for was help in case I had missed something when I was trying to set it up. And if so could anyone point me in the right direction.if threads are closed prematurely then it prevents other members helping out. Or...

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