Google now enables you to handle all of your outdated Nest Cams from the Residence app

Google now means that you can handle Nest Cam IQ inside and overseas cameras, each launched in 2017, via a public preview within the Google Residence app, which implies now you can technically handle all Nest cameras since 2015 from the Residence app as a substitute of the Nest app.

Google has slowly made it doable to convey Nest cameras to Residence during the last yr and it has modified. While you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras to Residence, you’ll “overview video historical past in occasion views and timelines, entry digicam settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Residence apps,” Google says. From Residence, Google additionally enables you to view stay streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.

You’ll be able to be part of the public preview from inside the Residence app or in residence.google.com. “When you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you will see prompts in each the Nest app and the Google Residence app within the Favorites tab with directions when you may switch your Nest Cam from the Nest app to the Google Residence app,” Google says. Entry will start rolling out this week. And if you wish to reverse switch your Nest Cam IQ indoor and outside cameras to the Nest app, you’ll achieve this, in line with Google.

Google now additionally means that you can handle any Nest Hub Max gadgets from the Residence app if you happen to’re enrolled in public preview. Nonetheless, in contrast to Nest Cam IQ cameras, if you happen to convey Nest Hub Max gadgets to the Residence app, you will not be capable of switch them again to the Nest app.