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Let’s Discuss! Smart Home Automations for Pets

Hey Nest Community,May is National Pet Month in the United States! And as all pet parents know - scaley, feathery, and furry friends are very important inhabitants of your household and can absolutely benefit from the connectedness of a smart home. W...

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All Google Home and cast devices disappear

This is getting to be somewhat of problem with Google. Out of my entire home ecosystem, every one of my home and cast devices (20+), disappear all of the time. I am a Sr Wireless Network Engineer and have an enterprise wireless network (Cisco) at hom...

Google Assistant will not open my Chamberlain Liftmaster garage door

I have a new Chamberlain Liftmaster garage door opener with the myQ app linked to my Google Assistant account. The commands work to close the garage door and to check on the status of the garage door but the command to open the door gets an error mes...

Bob2 by Community Member
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Can not start routines manually on iOS

I can not start Google Home Routines manually (by clicking on it) on iOS. Am I missing something? When I click on it, the edit screen appears.

Horsje by Community Member
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smart home device

We have developed a Bluetooth-BLE device, and want to connect to Google assistant directly with bluetooth, not with wifi, cause our device is battery-powered.Besides, we have our device connected to Alexa using bluetooth directly success in the way o...

Jereme by Community Member
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GE bulbs and plugs never stay connected and almost never

We are continually rebooting the Nest Audio and Nest Minis that are in the same room as our "works with Google" Cync bulbs and plugs. This fix only holds for a few hours before the lights stop responding again. The last straw was this morning: sun is...

JT21 by Community Member
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NEST OFFLINE FOLLOWING UPDATE TO IOS 15

I am unable to reconnect Nest which was working fine. I have tried FOLLOWING I reset Network settings then restart. I was getting. I was getting message Network error/W5

Drughani by Community Member
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None of my devices show up under "Works with Google"

I've used the Google Home app in the past to link devices that "work with Google", such as Belkin WeMo switch, Lutron Caseta switches, and Globe smart plugs. Those devices, since they were already added, show up fine in the Home app in the rooms they...

Connecting 2 Google hubs in one house

Hi folks, can I connect 2 Google Nest Hubs (ie 1 Google Nest Hub 2nd Gen, 1 Google Nest Hub Max) in my house, both on the same wi-fi, 1 in the living room and the other in the retreat upstairs, so that I can get live video feed on both hubs from my G...

EFG by Community Member
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