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This even worked with my first generation Chromecast, although it took some buffering as all video tends to do on a first gen Chromecast. If you've subscribed to Nest Aware, you can even have your compatible smart speaker announce people by name, assuming they're recognized by the Nest app. I'm a reluctant smart speaker user, so I found this weird at first. But it's also the closest my house has come to the McFly house in Back to the Future Part II, welcoming home every family member by name. The Nest Hello also works with the Nest X Yale smart lock, so that you can lock and unlock your door using your smartphone and assign codes to guests. However, you can't use your voice to control it with Alexa or another voice assistant as you can with August's and Schlage's smart locks. MORE: Know Where Your Kids Are With These GPS TrackersWhile some Nest products such as the Nest Learning Thermostat, Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest Cam have IFTTT support, as of this writing, the Nest Hello does not, although some Nest Cam recipes do work. Nest Hello's facial recognition seems like a natural fit for this kind of automation — imagine setting different rules for different people — so we hope it comes along eventually. Bottom LineThe facial recognition feature in the Nest Hello gives this video doorbell a more personal experience than the competition. In addition, its quality HDR video, strong speaker and microphone, and well made and frequently updated Nest app were tops among the other video doorbells we've tested. While you need a Nest Aware subscription and its recurring cost to get the most out of it, the Nest Hello is the best video doorbell yet.

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01.14.2007 | 34 Comments

We were able to use our tablets we normally leave at home to easily monitor our little pup for free. We can always see how he is doing from our phones and even talk through the microphone to calm him down or just to check in before we get home. The night mode feature helps us tremendously since he is a black lab and hard to spot sometimes. The app also lets us swap through accounts easily to switch our viewing tablets and lets us know our battery percentage at all times. I’d highly recommend Alfred to anyone with a need to monitor their pet. Also, the motion detection feature along with instant notifications to your phone make it a solid choice for baby and house monitoring as well. I have used this app off and on for almost two years. I don’t like the recent upgrades that limited the amount of time movement is recorded. The app used to stop recording at a certain point and pick right back up because it defected there was still movement, not any more. The kids can leave the view of the camera, it stops recording but does not pick them back up when the walk back into the view of the camera, they made it through the living room into the kitchen. Both rooms are in the view.

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, coming from a remote client device to a visitor near the mounting surface. When the doorbell camera 106 is mounted onto the mounting surface, the speaker openings 718 are not visible from a gaze of the visitor as the visitor is approaching or standing near the mounting surface. Also, the speaker openings 718 may be configured to face down towards a ground to prevent water and dust from dropping into a speaker box via the speaker openings 718. Given that the doorbell camera 106 includes both the microphone and the speaker, a remote user may have a full duplex audio session i. e. , receiving audio messages from the visitor and sending audio message to the visitor with the visitor via the doorbell camera 106, while reviewing live video streams captured by the camera module of the doorbell camera 106 on the remote client device 220 associated with the remote user. Referring to FIGS. 9F and 9G, the doorbell camera 106 may include a stack 910 of electronic and optical components. The stack 910 is securely enclosed within the device housing 702 when the front cover plate 708 is assembled onto a body of the device housing 702. In some implementations, the stack 910 of electronic and optical components are assembled prior to being enclosed within the device housing 702. In some implementations, the electronic and optical components are sequentially disposed into the body of the device housing 702 to form the stack 910 that are thereby enclosed within the device housing 702 when the front cover plate 708 in assembled onto the body of the device housing 702.