Google now lets you manage all of your old Nest Cams from the Home app

Google now lets you manage Nest Cam IQ indoor and outdoor cameras — which had been each launched in 2017 — by means of a public preview within the Google Residence app, which means that you may now technically handle all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Residence app as a substitute of the Nest app.

Google has been slowly making it potential to carry Nest cams into Residence over the previous yr and alter. If you switch your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Residence, you’ll have the ability to “evaluation 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 permits you to view reside streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.

You’ll be able to be a part of the public preview from contained in the Residence app or at home.google.com. “In case you’re already enrolled in Public Preview, you’ll see prompts in each the Nest app and within the Google Residence app underneath 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 out of doors cameras again to the Nest app, you’ll have the ability to try this, based on Google.

Google additionally now permits you to handle any Nest Hub Max devices from the Residence app if you happen to’re enrolled within the public preview. Nevertheless, in contrast to with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, if you happen to carry Nest Hub Max gadgets into the Residence app, you may’t switch them again to the Nest app.