Nest Hub (Google Hub) or Amazon Echo Show 5 / 8

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Hey,

Both the Nest Hub and the Amazon Echo Show 5 or 8 are on sale in the UK at the moment and i’m wondering which is best for integration into Home Assistant.

Specifically things I’m looking to do:

  1. When my doorbell rings show a video stream from the camera on it.
  2. Show a HA style dashboard so I can click buttons to turn some lights on/off

Also I see that Nest Hub can stream Netflix so that got me thinking can either of them stream Plex or stream from HDHomeRun?

Any help much apprecaited.

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  1. I do this with my own camera, that provides a suitable stream source - sending to my Google/Nest Home Hub devices
  2. You can do this with Google/Nest Home Hub, though honestly I’m more likely to use the interface built into the Google/Nest Home…

Given that the Google/Nest Home Hubs are Cast devices, if you can cast to a ChromeCast you can cast to those. I just tried Plex, and it does work, even if the display is a bit small for that.

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Thanks - I felt that the Nest Hub was likely to be easier to integrate.

Most of my stuff is Alexa which made me slow down on clicking “buy”.

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The Nest devices are also native media players, so you can use them to play media, or as a TTS (text to speech) target without any effort.

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