Google wants you to talk to your nesting cameras and your doorbell to find out what they have recorded

Hot on the heels of Amazon’s own security camera and the BLINK security camera, Google announces new nesting cameras with its Gemini AI chatbot as the main sale argument in addition to an improved image quality. Fortunately, there are only three new Nest products, and they are relatively easy to understand, unlike the total range of Amazon, which may require a doctorate to determine the differences between each model.

New nest outdooor, indoor and savel

The three new Nest cameras are the outdoor camera of $ 150 (wired, 2nd generation), an interior camera at $ 100 (wired, 3rd generation) and a nest bell at $ 180 (wired, 2nd generation). You have neutral colors like snow (white) and hazelnut, but the most striking color is the red “Berry” model for the interior camera. I prefer that my security cameras are based in the walls and ceilings, but if you have always wanted a brilliant and color bay camera that looks at you from above, you can now live your craziest dreams.

On the material front, the three nest cameras have 2K resolution image sensors with HDR. Google says that the sensors considerably improve the quality of the recorded video sequences, especially for the low and night video. It is just as important to the new, larger and larger field of vision (152 degrees on the interior camera and the outdoor camera and 166 degrees on the doorbell of the nest) – mainly to capture more on video so that gemini can have more information to process and understand. With older nest cameras and the doorbell, they could only send notifications alerting you to movement or sound, but with Gemini, Google says that users will be able to obtain more specific notifications that describe what is happening.

For example, if a delivery man comes through your door to deposit a package, Gemini should send a notification describing his clothes and can even become as specific as telling you of which delivery service it can come if he can see a logo or a uniform truck in the background. At home, with the interior camera Nest and the outdoor camera, the Gemini could send a notification indicating that your cat has overturned a glass vase or maybe your child named John (you must authorize facial recognition) played in the courtyard at 4 p.m. instead of doing their homework as you asked.

Gemini also has a functionality called “Ask Home”, which combines computer vision from cameras and natural language processing to find specific clips instead of having to rub the frame by image, through hours of sequences. Google says you can just ask Gemini to find something from sequences. “What happened to the vase in the living room?” is an example, shared the company.

There are some additional quality of life improvements for the spring for new cameras, including “Home Brief” (summary of hours of sequences), the ability to zoom in a culture the field of vision to focus on a single field for surveillance and six hours of free event video (against three hours).

All these features are accessible in the Redessed Google Home application, simpler, faster and more stable. You can always use the Nest application, but Google tells Gizmodo that the domestic application will be the main Smart Home application for Nest in the future. This is only a matter of time before the Nest application was deleted in the future, so don’t get too attached. The good news is that the new Google Home application has reached parity and stability of functionalities with the Nest application. So, if the Smart Home application has left a bad taste in the mouth, as it did with me, I think we should give it another blow and judge it.

I have not seen any of the new nest cameras in action, so I cannot say with what gemini precision is capable of recognizing people, vehicles, animals, packages and other objects in images inside and around the house. But I am interested in seeing how the ASK Home functionality works. I would love to know which of my two cats overturned certain things in my apartment while I was in the office.

For the conscious budget

The new Smart Home Nest products are full of features, but if you have a tighter budget – as much tighter – you may want to consider some of the new Walmart brand ONN devices such as the $ 23 wired interior camera and the $ 50 cable video bell. These are not comparable to the interior camera and the nest door – they record only 1080p, and the field of vision is not as wide, but it provides a more basic security cameras system which is well integrated into the new Google Home application. If you want the features of Gemini such as intelligent alerts and event history, you will need to prepare for a Google Home Premium subscription, which is divided into standard ($ 10) and advanced ($ 20).