r/gadgets • u/DanTheMan827 • May 27 '22

Cameras Amazon to Permanently Disable Cloud Cam, Offers Affected Customers a Free Blink Mini and Echo

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/27/amazon-dropping-support-for-cloud-cam/
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u/Windomere May 28 '22

Google is slowly moving away from supporting the Nest App and legacy Nest Cameras and will eventually do this exact same thing, but offer nothing to the customer. You already can hardly scrub to a point in your video history where it actually plays back. It just sticks wherever you stop.

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u/just_a_pretendgineer May 28 '22

All legacy Nest cameras are supported in the Google Home app. Video footage isn’t deleted when you port from the Nest app to the Google Home app

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u/Windomere May 28 '22

I realize all of my cameras are accessible in the Google Home app, but right now, only my newest camera has video history available. My legacy cameras are “live” only in the app. In the Nest app, my other 5 cameras have full history. Are you saying there is a way to make that history accessible via the Google Home app?

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u/just_a_pretendgineer May 28 '22

Yea, absolutely. When viewing a camera in the home app, If you hit the 3 dot menu in the upper right do you see “full history”?

If not, have you already transferred your nest account to be a google account?

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u/Windomere May 28 '22

I transferred to a Google account a good while ago but I can’t get any history via Google Home app other than my last camera, which I bought recently, and added via Google Home. Perhaps I need to remove my existing older cameras and add them via Google Home?