I have two nest indoor cameras at home. One older style which works with the nest app and one is the newer style that only works with Google home app.
I’ve ready a few threads online and while it seemed like there was issues originally with the new cameras, they should be working now.
I’ve successfully gone through the process of connecting using connecting o the SDM following the guide (thank you for writing) but can only see one of the two camera (the old one).
I only just got one of the new Nest Cam Indoor and tried to link it to HomeAssistant and I get the following error:
**No access to partner**
Information could not be retrieved. Please contact NestCameraHASS to verify that your account has been properly set up. You may need to add the developer email address as a home member in the Google Home app settings.
I have a feeling that this camera might not be fully supported by the api’s yet …
I also just got the new flood light camera without realizing it only works with the google home app and doesnt support HA. Really sucks. I am hoping when support is added we will be able to control the flood light and have the ability to disable it via HA. One thing that drove me nuts about my Ring flood lights is there was no way via HA to disable the flood light motion sensor, meaning its impossible to do scenes to allow hanging in the backyard without being blasted by security lights.
Glad to hear they at least most likely plan to add it. i was a little nervous considering this is the first device I’ve bought that only works in the google home app. does the battery doorbell also only work in the home app?
I really wish they werent forcing us out of the nest app, its pretty nice and I like it much better for quickly checking cameras.
So far the flood light is really nice, its nicely made, really bright nice quality lights. The only negative compared to the ring floodlight it r eplaced is that it sticks out REALLY far. it sticks out like 3x as far, it would be that big of a deal but my round electrical box is surface mounted on the side of the house, not recessed into the house, so combining the light and the box it sticks out like a foot or more!
For me the best feature is finally it has a real person only alert mode. I have feral cats that live in my backyard and they were alwayss setting off t he ring even though it was in person only mode. it got to the point it was pointless because i was ignoring all the video alerts. Now with the nest AI it seems to really actually only go off for people, which is awesome.
Hi, the new nest cams will have better support in the next home assistant release. I got it working this week and merged into the code base so you can try it out on a nightly build, or wait for next release. It still has a couple rough edges since video works very differently in the new cameras, but don’t worry, it’ll get better. On a positive note, WebRTC in the new cameras is way faster.
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Hi, the new nest cams will have better support in the next home assistant release. I got it working this week and merged into the code base so you can try it out on a nightly build, or wait for next release. It still has a couple rough edges since video works very differently in the new cameras, but don’t worry, it’ll get better. On a positive note, WebRTC in the new cameras is way faster.
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Frigan awesome, thanks!
Curious, any chance we will be able to control the flood light? Specifically looking for the ability to disable it completely so I can snooze it when relaxing in the back yard. Hoping google adds a snooze feature but if not, the ability to turn the motion activation on and off in HA would be awesome.
what is interesting is that in google home its considered a completely different device (the floodlights). The light shows up as a device and the camera shows up as a device.
What was added is very basic support for streaming cameras that support WebRTC, which some come in the next home assistant release (or a nightly build if you’re into that).
You are correct that home assistant only supports what the SDM API exposes at the moment. I don’t have a flood light camera, so I don’ t know if or how the camera is exposed. (If it were exposed, i’m guesing it would just act like other cameras) and I don’t see anything about lights in the API.
Thank you for clarifying. I believe you are correct, the new floodlight camera is going to show the same as the other new camera, they break it into 2 components in the Home app and the camera looks identical to the other new one.
I was looking at the Home app and my Flood light camera when you go into the device info, is described as “Nest Cam (Battery)”. It seems its just a standard new nest cam battery model with the power wire attached.
OK great. The new cam support is in the beta home assistant and I have heard folks say that it shows up there – though technically it should show up in the existing version of home assistant as well (without stream support)
Nice, 2021.11 should be out soon so I will upgrade when its released and hopefully the camera will show up. Unfortunately its not showing now, hopefully that isnt a bad sign.
