The only use for them in Google Home is as presence sensors for Home & Away routines with no other functionality supported.
As I say, they previously indicated on developer portal that support for the Protects was coming but now all references to that have been removed and the developers won’t give me a straight answer to the question which makes me wonder.
It’s a shame but hopefully it does get rectified at some point in the future.
This just went live and all of my Nest cameras and thermostat are in Smartthings.
Played around with it a bit and have a follow up question.
Motion detection on the Nest Hello is worthless at night as it is set off by bugs once every half hour. I turn off motion notification on the camera but DO get People notifications that are valuable. I would love to only alert through Smartthings if the camera detects a person. Goal would be to turn on the outdoor flood light. But…only option in the ST automation is motion and NOT person detection. Guessing this would have to be an added feature for the Google ST Integrations team.
The lack of person detection is frustrating and I don’t know why it is not available, it’s in the API, and is even referenced when you approve the connection.
Hi! I am living in Romania and operating a V3 UK Smartthings Hub and a Nest Learning Thermostat Still not seeing the Nest as an available device in the list. Any idea whether there is a country/area based limitation or delay? Anyone else from my area? Thanks!
State always shows as Idle for me - anyone know what this is supposed to display? (is it the presence detector state?)
Mode allows you to change the Thermostat mode, but doesn’t reflect any changes made on the actual thermostat.
Not sure
Agreed. My test automations last night had the lights turning on and off all night due to bugs. We can control how long the motion should be present for, but using a “smart” notification of a person or even a vehicle (if you can detect a person…should be able to detect a vehicle) would be awesome.
All working ok here for heat / off and temp setting, not tried other modes yet.
Anyone got the new NEST Devices to register in WebCore, what kind of sensor does this show as? I can’t for the life of me find them in the WebCore Device Sharing options…
i am dwindling down to nest thermostats and protects only. my nest hello died 3 months ago so i opted to go to another product and i am currently phasing out my nest cams.
plus everything works in homekit via starling home hub so i am happy.