Some month ago I got the Google Nest Doorbell - battery version. Installed it and have it working with my Google Home/Assistant. I also paid the $5 and did “the dance” to got the integration setup towards Home Assistant.
I have tried out some stuff to understand what I can do with it, but it does not seem fully realiable;
I have made an automation that triggers when someone press the doorbell. This one seems to work all fine.
I have made an automation that triggers when motion is detected. This one does NOT seem to work at all.
I also noticed that video clips are saved in “Media / Nest / Office doorbell: Recent Events” (that is the menu path in the UI). BUT it does not seem to save ALL clips. For example today I have so far 5 video clips saved - but in the Google Home app I got 11 video clips in the history for the last 3 hours.
So, to my questions;
How to troubleshoot “motion detected”, I assume it should work?
Why does the saving of video clips seem so random - isn’t it suppose to save all video clips?
I run Home assistant (HASS-OS) in Virtualization station on a QNAP NAS - always (or mostly) on the latest versions - currently 2022.11.
Not much help with my response; but I have pretty much exactly the same issue, Person Detection is not working, the integration only shows a single sensor as streaming:
alias: Notify when person is detected by doorbell on Lounge TV
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: device
device_id: [redacted]
domain: nest
type: camera_person
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.lounge_tv
state: "on"
action:
- service: notify.lounge_tv
data:
message: Person Detected at Front Door
mode: single
So I am puzzled, is the integration broken somehow?
I am sure I allowed all permissions when configuring the Authentication (info here: Google Nest integration)
If someone knows anything, it would be appreciated.
My config looks basically exactly the same (only difference I could find was the frontend_stream_type which I have set to web_rtc).
My “person detection” seems to work fine. Haven’t really used it more than creating a notify to the companion app to try it out, still my “motion detection” does not seem to work.
Maybe somewhat relevant: after I have enabled the Nest Aware subscription to recognize faces at the front door, the automation to turn on the porch lights has stopped working reliably. It seems as if when a (familiar) face is detected, they don’t send a person detected event anymore. That would be fine, if there was a face detected event which could be added as an additional trigger. But that doesn’t seem to exist. Hence: Using Nest Aware + enabling face detection reduces the functionality in Home Assistant.
How did you get the notification if someone press the doorbell? I only have the streaming sensor enabled and can’t find anyway to integrate notifications or other things like motion detection.
As mentioned above - when creating an automation I just base the trigger on a device (the doorbell) and then select any of the Doorbells triggers (see pic):
I feel this was working when I tested it a year or two ago but recently when moving my automations to Node-Red, realised this wasn’t working and can’t seem to get any triggers working for Person detected or Motion detected.
I guess the integration is broken?
