Google Nest Cam Outdoor Battery on Smartthings

Devices & Integrations
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Hello,

I have acquired a couple of Google Nest Cameras and managed to configure them on the Google Home App. Through service connection I have the cameras working on Smartthings.

Unlike my Aeotec 360 the Google Nest cameras don’t have the small “button” on the widget so that I can quickly turn then on/off, nor it is possible to do so through routines/scenes. This is just an example:
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I can, however, turn them on/off on the Google Home app.

My inside cameras are both Aeotec, and both Google cameras I want to place outside.

What I am trying to accomplish is to take advantage of the “Home Monitor” service and I wanted to create routines to:

  • When state is Disarm Home Monitor: Turn off all the cameras
  • When state is Arm (inside): Connect outside cameras
  • When state is Arm (outside): Connect all cameras.

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Edit: I do understand the difference is that the Aeotec cameras are fully managed by my Hub/Smartthings, and the Google Cameras are linked via service. Also, I have all switches turned on at nestservices.google.com. If anyone managed to connect the Nest cameras directly to Smartthings, that would be cool too, though I doubt that is possible.

Hopefully this makes sense and someone already went through it. Thanks in advance.

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I believe you get the award for smallest images posted :slight_smile:

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Sorry, these are google examples. But you get the point. If you don’t, I don’t think you would be able to help anyway :upside_down_face:

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I believe that Google is responsible for the integration with ST. I think that they would have to modify the integration to expose these elements in the mobile app presentation.

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Hi @nf098,

I do own and have Google Nest Cameras integrated with Smartthings too, and it’s been a while having that integration and they have never allowed to do anything with the cameras (on/off switch or similar), you just can see live feed and add them to routines for motion detection only

Nest (now google) is in charge of this integration, so I would suggest reach them via [Contact Us (Contact Us - Google Nest Help) or create a post under their community https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/ and see if someone had reach out Dev for this

Cheers!

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Hello,

Quick update. Although it’s not the optimal solution, I found a way to get things done…

Smartthings and Google Home are connected both ways. Smartthings has the Home Monitor, if I set “Arm away” it will connect my Aeotec 360 cameras through a Smartthings automation.
While that on the Google Home app there is an automation that when the Aeotec cameras are turned on, the Nest cameras are turned on as well… I will experiment this further but so far, I found this way of turning all cameras on with just one action: Home Monitor

For some reason I couldn’t create the automation on Google Home using the UI, but a simple Script did work.

I will update this once I finish the setup and let you guys know.

Cheers

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Google in their infinite wisdom restrict camera actions in routines to time schedule starters only.

The cameras are so locked down it’s ridiculous. I mean, turning on a camera when a door opens might be useful eh? You can’t do it via the UI.