I’m deleting the Nest integration. Don’t see any use cases that apply to me.
The only Nest devices I have are six Nest Outdoor Cameras.
The potential uses I’ve seen are:
- Announce activity at a door. As it is, I have the Nest app notifying me. If it’s a delivery, the delivery person has usually dropped the package and is getting back in their truck before I’m notified. Adding another cloud to get the notification is only going to be worse.
- Use motion events to turn on lights. First off, I live in the country and motion detector lights are forbidden in the neighborhood. Then there are false positives. Bugs flying by the cameras at night trigger as motion. Clouds changing the lighting in the daytime do also.
- I’d like more flexible control of camera state. There are some that I have turn off during the day unless we’re gone. It’s tricky and a bit error-prone in the a Nest app. But since Google doesn’t allow camera state control via the integration, it’s simply not possible.
Add to this the slowness of access to live view, viewing limited to one camera at a time, and lack of access to recorded video and I find the whole thing useless.