Google now allows you to handle your entire outdated Nest Cams from the Residence app

Google now allows you to handle Nest Cam IQ indoor and out of doors cameras — which had been each launched in 2017 — by way of a public preview within the Google Residence app, which means you could 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 deliver 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 “overview video historical past in occasion and timeline views, entry digicam settings, and extra with out switching between the Nest and Google Residence apps,” Google says. From Residence, Google additionally allows you to view stay streams from cameras in your favorites tab and arrange automations.

You may be a part of the public preview from contained in the Residence app or at house.google.com. “Should 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 whenever 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 be capable to try this, in accordance with Google.

Google additionally now allows you to handle any Nest Hub Max gadgets from the Residence app should you’re enrolled within the public preview. Nonetheless, not like with the Nest Cam IQ cameras, should you deliver Nest Hub Max gadgets into the Residence app, you’ll be able to’t switch them again to the Nest app.