Your Nest Security Devices Are Getting A Major Update For Free - Including A Big One For Google Home

Aside from knowing and responding successful a much conversational measurement than Google Assistant, Google Home will support richer notifications done Gemini. You'll beryllium capable to inquire nan upgraded virtual adjunct much circumstantial questions astir your smart home, for illustration "When did nan kids travel location from schoolhouse today?"

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Google is implementing this characteristic to make communicating pinch your smart location much natural, and will present caller voices that sound much for illustration a casual conversation.

All Google Nest devices released successful nan past decade are compatible pinch nan caller updates Google announced this week.

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Here's a database of each devices that will support nan Google update:

Security cameras

• Nest Cam Indoor (2015)
• Nest Cam Outdoor (2016)
• Nest Cam IQ Indoor (2017)
• Nest Cam IQ Outdoor (2017)
• Nest Cam Battery (2021)
• Nest Cam Wired (2021)
• Nest Cam pinch Floodlight (2021)
• Nest Cam Indoor 2K (2025)
• Nest Cam Outdoor 2K (2025)
• Walmart onn Indoor Camera Wired (2025)

Video doorbells

• Nest Doorbell Wired (2018)
• Nest Doorbell Battery (2021)
• Nest Doorbell Wired (2022)
• Nest Doorbell 2K (2025)
• Walmart onn Video Doorbell Wired (2025)

Smart speakers

• Google Home (2016)
• Google Home Mini (2017)
• Google Home Max (2017)
• Nest Mini (2019)
• Nest Audio (2020)*

Smart displays

• Nest Hub (2018)
• Nest Hub Max (2019)*
• Nest Hub (2021)*

*This instrumentality will besides get Gemini Live.

Some of nan updates coming to Google Home will require a subscription, overmuch for illustration nan existent Nest Aware subscription. In fact, nan prices for what Google is calling a Home Premium subscription will transportation complete from Nest Aware.

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The institution will connection 2 tiers: a Standard tier for $10 per month, and an Advanced package that includes Google One subscriptions, costing $20 per month.

The Standard tier will connection Gemini for Home, Gemini Live, automation features, 30 days of arena video history, intelligent alerts, acquainted faces, car shed doorway and package detection, fume and CO alarm, and alerts pinch zoomed-in previews.

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The Advanced tier supports everything successful nan Standard option, positive Ask Home for video history, AI notifications, AI descriptions, Home Brief, 60 days of arena history, and 24/7 video history.

The Google Home features will beryllium included pinch Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra astatine nary other cost.

Aside from these package upgrades for Google Home users, Google besides announced caller Nest hardware, including a caller Google Home Speaker, a caller Nest Cam, and a caller Nest Doorbell.

The Google Home Speaker is planned to beryllium disposable successful Spring 2026 for $99. It'll travel successful 4 colors, characteristic 360-degree audio, and tin double arsenic nan audio output for a Google TV Streamer. 

The caller Nest Cams Indoor and Outdoor characteristic 2K solution and a wider and taller section of position than nan erstwhile models. Google besides announced a caller Nest Doorbell pinch a 1:1 facet ratio, allowing it to seizure much footage astatine once. The instrumentality also supports zoomed-in previews successful notifications.

Through a Walmart partnership, Google announced a caller onn Indoor Camera for $23 and an onn Video Doorbell for $50.

Aside from replacing Google Assistant, Gemini will beryllium capable to connection descriptions of captured information footage. With Ask Home, you tin usage earthy connection to inquire Gemini astir circumstantial events that whitethorn person been captured during surveillance. Google says you tin get arsenic circumstantial arsenic asking Gemini, "Did thing eat my plants?" and it'll propulsion footage of a qualifying event.

If Google tin present connected these promises, nan institution would beryllium that smart location surveillance has surpassed elemental "motion detected" notifications.

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A Home Brief characteristic gives you a recap of noteworthy events recorded complete nan past day, though you tin besides customize your recap's magnitude and moreover nan taxable of its focus, successful lawsuit you'd for illustration it to springiness you a recap connected what your pets did while you were out.

Generative AI besides enables nan creation of automations much naturally, which is 1 of nan astir valuable upgrades for smart location users. You tin inquire Gemini to travel up pinch automations without having to spell done an if-this, then-that scenario. Just opportunity "Help maine consciousness safer" aliases "Make it look for illustration someone's location if my location is quiet astatine night."