I got rid of my covid hair and it might be time for you to get rid of your old
Nest Aware subscription and join the new one but is it that's what I will answer
today
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life and
today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation by bringing you
concise quick information about the Nest Aware service the new subscription
service that Google just rolled out in a ton of different countries and how it
impacts you what changes have been made and how it's better and worse than the
previous one by the way this video will include a major impact to your Nest
account so if you're someone still hanging on to that there are a couple of
things here that you need to know if you don't know what Nest Aware is and how it
impacts your Google Home and your Google Nest products well in the past what it
was was a subscription service for 5 10 or 30 day event recordings and actually
24/7 recordings now they give you intelligent alerts is what they called
it and that included things like familiar faces or facial recognition
with certain cameras and this was a very powerful service if not very expensive
so without that subscription your camera really became something that you could
check notifications on and couldn't do much else with it but that 24/7
recording plus the event recordings and the ability to go to those events very
quickly made these very very powerful cameras what happened very recently is
Google put out a new Nest Aware subscription and it removes a few
features are actually one key feature and then adds in a number of features
now the thing that it removes is from the base subscription level so this is
in the US a six dollar subscription in Canada it's eight dollars and there's
different prices throughout the world we'll talk about pricing in a bit but
they removed the 24/7 video recording so that's the big feature loss the things
they have added in just about every country so now you can recognize if your
dog is barking and can also get notifications if someone's
speaking in a space not necessarily within the view of a camera but speaking
within a space and they should be able to recognize many voices if they're
someone whose voice matched through Google Assistant or Google Home and give
you those alerts now I don't think that means strangers I think that means
people in your home that have been recognized but I'm not entirely clear on
that and we don't know if that might expand that way in the future there's a
couple of other additions but these are specifically in the United States right
now or at least as far as I can tell they are only in the United States so
number one glass breaking and smoke or CO detectors being detected by your
Google smart speaker so this is a Nest Hub Max but also the Google Home and the
Google Nest other smart speakers and displays can then be used to detect
those things you will also be able to make emergency calls in the United
States and that's a big deal right from the app basically so you'll get an alert
you'll see what that alert is and then you can make those emergency calls the
last thing is a package delivery notification on a Nest Hello and that's
really the only device right now that you would be able to get those package
delivery notifications but all of things all of these things are being added to
the service now and there's a chart I'm showing up on screen here and I'm gonna
show you the difference between the US and Canada and this is one of the real
keys that you need to understand you can go to the learn more section on the
store google.com page you go and you search for nest aware and then you'll
see your chart for your specific country because this has only been rolled out to
20 countries but the features are different per country so you can go look
at the pricing which is different but you can also look at the features and
what specific devices can detect what and what's really different what people
might start to look at the nest hub max a little bit differently for is it has
that nest camera on it and as a result it is capable of just about everything
that your system or you could want out of that or all of the features that
Google has so this becomes a really really powerful device in this scenario
so to summarize you're going to find more worth in the United States with
more features this is pretty normal but we don't know and I don't know when they
are going to roll out those other features in other countries the other
thing that might surprise you you know I talked about the Nest Hub Max they're
being so powerful but the rest of the speakers all they can do is listen for
glass breaking or smoke or CO detectors they can't actually listen in for people
being in your space when you're not home that features not available yet no
here's a really wild idea and I want to read this directly from nests or
Google's blog here if you're elderly parent or relative has a nest hub max
not only can they stay in touch with you with google duo or through dual video
calling but you can also look out for them with the new nest aware all they
have to do is invite you as a home member and enable their speaker or
display and you'll get notifications if something needs your attention it's too
hard to do a direct comparison of all the different pricing adjustments
between all the different plans you know the old plan had the 5, 10 days and the
longer days and then you had you now have the 30-year the 60 day and there's
just a ton of permutations and I'm not going to go through them all you need to
consider your own situation for pricing but what I'll tell you is in most cases
you know if you have one camera you're paying five dollars a month on the
existing subscription service and you would actually be paying an extra dollar
and what you would be trading off there is from five day event recordings and
24/7 recording to 30 day just event recordings and the new added features
that you have available so it really changes now once you have more cameras
it basically gets way out of hand and the new subscription pricing is much
better because they're not charging you per camera even if you go up to the
second option which allows you to keep 24/7 recordings
I still think in most cases as soon as you start to add extra cameras and you
want these new features the pricing really becomes much more reasonable and
that's that's going to be the honest truth for most of you I think most of
you are gonna see this as a really quick win to save a lot of money if you have
three or four or I've heard situations with nine cameras but there are two
caveats to this you lose that 24/7 recording if you don't go up to the
higher subscription pricing which is always double as far as I've seen in
every country it's double the monthly price to get that 24/7 recording now
personally I don't care about 24/7 recording I found the event recording to
be more than enough with these and I like the new features I would probably
move but here's the bigger caveat for you and that is if you want to move to
the new Nest Aware pricing or subscription you will have to move from
a Nest account to a Google account you will have to do that migration process
so for those of you that have been holding on to this because you have some
kind of integration that you really know and love and Amazon is a great example
right now if you want to show these cameras on one of their smart displays
yes you will still need that old nest account in order to do that so
unfortunately you will have to migrate and that will break some of those
integrations if you've been holding on to them this is a real split point where
a lot of people I think are going to let go of the integrations and wait the
little time period that we have left for Google to start repairing some of the
integrations because they have said you know specifically with Amazon they have
said we will work with them we will try and keep that integration going but when
you do that migration today it breaks and actually Frank who works with a lot
of seniors does a lot of great stuff with smart home there you can check out
his website down below and talk to Frank he helps a lot of seniors he actually
told me about his aunt who has nine asked cameras that's that situation I
was talking about she's not going to be able to convert to this new model and
that's obviously a big pricing difference and Frank went through the
process of talking to Google support and trying to get them to get him on the new
pricing model without converting his account but it just was not possible in
the end so he's okay with it moving his smart home that way but for some of you
you're probably not going to be so I think that's the biggest thing you need
to understand with moving to the new Nest Aware subscription model the other
thing you guys might be really happy to hear is the indoor cam the nest indoor
this is an outdoor the Nest Indoor camera dropped in price and so did the
Nest Hub to coincide with this and that pricing is getting a lot closer to
something more reasonable I think are more accessible for a lot of people and
when you consider all the new features they're adding I think it's actually a
pretty good deal and they might finally get me because then I'd be able to take
full advantage of my nest hub max and all of my nest products on screen right
now is our Google Home and Google Nest updates video which has 20 or 30
different updates I don't even know what the number was there was just a ton of
new features and new capabilities for you including a little tidbit about this
there so go check out that video otherwise thanks for watching and of
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