# \[APP\] Google Nest - Build your helpful home **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, official\ **Created:** [December 20, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416 "2025-12-20T13:25:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AppStore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/appstore/32/88202_2.png) [@AppStore](https://community.homey.app/u/AppStore)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/1 "2025-12-20T13:25:24Z")
Central topic for questions/discussing the Google Nest App You can use this topic to ask questions and share your experiences with the App or Devices supported by the App with community members. > This thread is not actively monitored by the Developer. For official support use the e-mail link in the AppStore [**Support** Contact »] [Google Nest | Homey](https://homey.app/a/com.google.nest) > **[Google Nest | Homey](https://homey.app/en-us/app/com.google.nest/Google-Nest/)** > > Build your helpful home. > To update the this topic ask one of the moderators or reply. ---
**Author:** ![AppStore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/appstore/32/88202_2.png) [@AppStore](https://community.homey.app/u/AppStore)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/2 "2025-12-20T13:25:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Alex\_R](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/alex_r/32/121550_2.png) [@Alex\_R](https://community.homey.app/u/Alex_R)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/3 "2025-12-19T23:45:20Z")
I’ve just installed the newly released Google Nest app, which is supposed to support live camera streaming from the Google Nest Hub Max, as well as motion detection based automations. I first tried adding a Nest Camera device. The app successfully discovers the camera (it doesn’t explicitly identify it as a Nest Hub Max Camera, but that’s the only Nest camera I have). When I select the device, I get the message: “_All good. This device works fine, but you cannot control it._” I also tried adding the Nest Hub Max itself. The app finds the Hub Max, but when I select it, I see the same message: “_All good. This device works fine, but you cannot control it._” In both cases, there are no controls available and no live camera stream. I granted all permissions during the pairing process, and the camera on the Hub Max is enabled (the physical camera/mic switch is turned on). Any ideas what might be causing this? ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_R](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/alex_r/32/121550_2.png) [@Alex\_R](https://community.homey.app/u/Alex_R)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/4 "2025-12-20T00:01:58Z")
Just replying to myself here (in case anyone else is wondering)… Live video streaming isn’t supported for Nest Cam devices (including Nest Doorbell), which makes the whole thing fairly useless, especially for the _ **video** _ doorbell, since it can’t actually show you any video 🙄 Only motion triggering flows works. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_R](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/alex_r/32/121550_2.png) [@Alex\_R](https://community.homey.app/u/Alex_R)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/6 "2025-12-20T00:47:50Z")
Hi Peter, Thanks for the heads-up. This is actually about the “Google Nest” Homey app from the app store, and it affects not only the Nest Hub Max but all Nest camera enabled devices in general. I’ve updated the topic title to reflect this by using the app name. Cheers, Alex ---
**Author:** ![Bubiai\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@Bubiai\_2](https://community.homey.app/u/Bubiai_2)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/7 "2025-12-20T09:03:35Z")
maybe this will help?! Door= nest door(nest doorbell). Could be another camera. ![SmartSelect_20251220_105928_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/8/c83aa88f89e0df0f30ecf49de7be15b5502f58c9.jpeg) When the doorbell rings, Nest shows up without Homey’s help. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_R](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/alex_r/32/121550_2.png) [@Alex\_R](https://community.homey.app/u/Alex_R)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/10 "2025-12-20T10:57:47Z")
Interesting solution, but it wouldn’t work for me. Thanks anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Da\_JoJo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/da_jojo/32/8210_2.png) [@Da\_JoJo](https://community.homey.app/u/Da_JoJo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/11 "2025-12-20T11:33:04Z")
I bought a nest hub max as well and I just can’t add it to Google home or nest. It seems to be a issue that is there for a couple of years and google just doesn’t do anything to solve it. If you add it first before any other camera device it should be ok. Till now I have not been able to add it though. Total crap this camera stream option. ---
**Author:** ![RobzInadE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robzinade/32/121231_2.png) [@RobzInadE](https://community.homey.app/u/RobzInadE)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/14 "2025-12-23T07:02:03Z")
I have the same problem. In the app, if I long-press one of the camera cards, I get a “loading stream…” and a spinner, but nothing ever happens. Hell, even open source solutions like the Google Nest SDM for Homebridge works better then this paid stuff… Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Geunwon\_Mo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/geunwon_mo/32/81500_2.png) [@Geunwon\_Mo](https://community.homey.app/u/Geunwon_Mo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-google-nest-build-your-helpful-home/147416/15 "2026-08-04T14:20:57Z")
The Nest app can set the cooling temperature from a Flow, but there is no way to read it or to notice that it changed. A Flow can push a value into the thermostat and never get it back. Cards today: - When — Target temperature changed · Temperature changes · Humidity changed - And — Thermostat mode is … · Eco-mode is enabled - Then — Set temperature · Set cool temperature · Set thermostat mode · Eco-mode on/off So target\_temperature.cool has an action but no trigger and no condition. The thermostat mode has a condition but no trigger. The HVAC state has neither. The values are already on the device — nothing extra has to be fetched from Google. This is a HomeyScript dump of a thermostat paired through the official app: target\_temperature = 22 (Heating temperature) measure\_temperature = 25.3 (Temperature) nest\_thermostat\_mode = cool (Thermostat mode) target\_temperature.cool = 25 (Cooling temperature) ← no Flow card nest\_thermostat\_hvac = cooling (HVAC) ← no Flow card HomeyScript can read it, but a script has to be polled from a timer, so it can never be a WHEN card — a Flow reacts to a setpoint change late, or not at all. Why it matters: in cooling season the cooling setpoint is the setpoint, and the heating one is inert. Mirroring the setpoint onto other climate devices, nudging fans or blinds when someone turns the temperature down, logging or notifying on changes — none of it has anything to attach to for half the year. What I’d like: - When — cooling setpoint changed · thermostat mode changed · HVAC state changed (each with the new and previous value as tokens) - And — cooling setpoint is above/below … · HVAC state is … - optionally a Then Read the cooling setpoint returning a token, for Advanced Flow One detail worth flagging for whoever implements it: a thermostat in heating mode reports target\_temperature.cool = null and flips back to a number when the mode changes. That should read as unknown rather than falling back to the last number — don’t fire the trigger when it becomes null, and let the comparison be false while it is unknown. A cooling setpoint is known condition makes that guard explicit. I hit this myself and built a small read-only app as a workaround — it subscribes to a thermostat paired through the official Nest app and mirrors the values onto its own device so they gain Flow cards: [GitHub - moKorean/com.lomohome.nest: Mirror a thermostat's cooling setpoint (target\_temperature.cool) into Homey Flow · GitHub](https://github.com/moKorean/com.lomohome.nest) It works, but it is the wrong shape: an extra device per thermostat, for values that are one card away from being usable already. It is MIT-licensed, so the capability mapping, the null handling and the card definitions are there for the taking if any of it is useful.