Google now enables you to handle all your previous Nest Cams from the Residence app

Google now enables you to handle Nest Cam IQ indoor and outside cameras — which have been each launched in 2017 — via a public preview within the Google Residence app, which means you can now technically handle all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Residence app as an alternative of the Nest app.

Google has been slowly making it attainable to convey Nest cams into Residence over the previous yr and alter. Once you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Residence, you’ll be capable to “evaluate video historical past in occasion and timeline views, entry digital camera settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Residence apps,” Google says. From Residence, Google additionally enables you to view dwell streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.

You’ll be able to be part of the public preview from contained in the Residence app or at residence.google.com. “In the event you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you’ll see prompts in each the Nest app and within the Google Residence app beneath the Favorites Tab with directions if you’re capable of switch your Nest Cam from the Nest app to the Google Residence app,” Google says. Entry will begin to roll out this week. And if you wish to reverse switch your Nest Cam IQ indoor and outside cameras again to the Nest app, you’ll be capable to try this, in line with Google.

Google additionally now enables you to handle any Nest Hub Max gadgets from the Residence app if you happen to’re enrolled within the public preview. Nonetheless, not like with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, if you happen to convey Nest Hub Max gadgets into the Residence app, you may’t switch them again to the Nest app.