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Google Nest cameras already support animal detection (e.g., cats, dogs), and these events have been available for use in Home Automation scripts for over a year and a half.Reference: https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Home-Automation/Heads-up-Cha...

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Google Nest cameras already detect animals (e.g., cats, dogs) natively in the Google Home app, and notifications like “Activity or animal seen” are sent to users. However, this event is not currently exposed in the Nest Device Access (SDM) API under ...

Fudmaster

Here you go: https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/412707571Thank you! 

Fudmaster

Can you expose the device.event.AnimalOtherDetection in the SDM API? For some reason, it is still not there and greatly missed.Thank you! 

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Hello Maeda, Thanks for your assistance. Is this the place place to request an update to the SDM API? If not, what is the best way? Thanks!

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