Google brings Nest Hello support to the Home app
by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy from The Verge - All Posts on (#6PGPV)
The Nest Hello video doorbell can now be fully migrated to the Google Home app from the Nest app. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google announced this week that it's rolling out support for its Nest Hello doorbell in the Google Home app. This allows you to transfer Google's original video doorbell camera - aka the Nest Doorbell (wired, first-gen) - from the Nest app to Google's Home app. Google is also bringing its garage door detection feature out of public preview, making it available to all users with compatible hardware. This uses a Nest Cam to alert you when your garage door is left open.
Garage door detection launched last fall in Google's public preview - a public beta where users can try out upcoming features - but it's now available to all Nest Aware subscribers in the US and Canada. (Nest Aware starts at $8 a month / $80 a year.)
The feature works with...