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11-22-2024, 01:00 PM
Users who migrate their Nest cameras to the Google Home app will lose a lot of features.
Zoom and enhance, shared livestreams, and timelapses are some of the missing items.
Users are upset enough that many are switching to alternative services.
Recently, Google started*allowing all Nest cameras from 2015 onwards to be added to the Google Home (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-home-guide-3258967/) app. The transition*hasn’t been smooth (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-nest-ten-years-3410946/). An embarrassing number of features are missing once you migrate, and it appears that as a result, many users are now looking elsewhere for their security camera needs.
Google’s (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13038234?hl=en#zippy=%2Cnest-app-only-features) support page that details how to transfer from Nest to Google Home lists which features are missing from the latter, and it’s a longer list than it should be. The missing features that stand out are time lapses, safety clips, supersight close-up tracking, microphone sensitivity, zoom and enhance, changing Wi-FI networks without resetting, and more. Here’s the complete list:
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/nest-users-abandoning-google-home-app-3502422/)
Zoom and enhance, shared livestreams, and timelapses are some of the missing items.
Users are upset enough that many are switching to alternative services.
Recently, Google started*allowing all Nest cameras from 2015 onwards to be added to the Google Home (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-home-guide-3258967/) app. The transition*hasn’t been smooth (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-nest-ten-years-3410946/). An embarrassing number of features are missing once you migrate, and it appears that as a result, many users are now looking elsewhere for their security camera needs.
Google’s (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13038234?hl=en#zippy=%2Cnest-app-only-features) support page that details how to transfer from Nest to Google Home lists which features are missing from the latter, and it’s a longer list than it should be. The missing features that stand out are time lapses, safety clips, supersight close-up tracking, microphone sensitivity, zoom and enhance, changing Wi-FI networks without resetting, and more. Here’s the complete list:
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/nest-users-abandoning-google-home-app-3502422/)