Manage homes and products in the Nest app

Important: If you lot sign in to the Nest app with a Google Account, utilise the Home app to manage home members who share access to your Nest products. Keep in listen that only dwelling members who also sign in with a Google Account volition be able to find your Nest products in the Nest app.

Yous can use the Nest app to add more than Nest products to your abode, and create another home and add products to information technology. You can too move products to a new home, or between rooms in a home.

Home and product basics

  • You can have multiple homes in the Nest app. For instance, you tin add a holiday habitation as a second habitation and your business concern equally a tertiary home.
  • The maximum number of homes you lot can accept in the Nest app depends on what account you employ to sign in.
    • If y'all sign in with a Google Account, you can have up to five homes in your account.
    • If you sign in with a Nest account, you tin have up to 3 homes.
  • You tin exist the Owner of one or all homes in the app.
  • You lot can be invited to admission one or all homes in the app. When you lot accept an invitation from someone to access their Nest home, that home will automatically be added to the app.
  • Don't assign Nest products to the same abode in the app if they're physically installed in different homes. This can cause bug when your products are trying to sense whether someone's abode or not.
  • If you need admission to more than the total number of homes allowed in an account, you can create another account. You can create or accept invitations for each of your accounts in the Nest app.
  • You lot'll manage some products in the Nest app, and other products in the Google Home app.
    • Use the Habitation app to manage domicile members if you employ a Google Account to manage your products and homes.

The number of products you can take in the Nest app

There's a maximum number of Nest products that you tin can have in each Nest home.

Nest thermostats

Maximum of20 per home

Nest Temperature Sensors

Maximum of6 per thermostat
Maximum of18 per dwelling

Nest Protects

Maximum ofxviii per domicile

Nest cameras, video doorbells and Dropcams

Maximum of10 per home (video quality depends on your net bandwidth)

Nest Secure

Maximum1 Guard per abode
Maximumxxx Detects per home
Maximumx Tags per person

Nest × Yale Lock

Maximum of10 per home

Nest Connect

Maximum offour per home

Switch between homes in the Nest app

You tin can only view and command products in ane dwelling at a time with the Nest app. If y'all have another dwelling in the app, you'll demand to switch between them.

  1. At the top left corner of the app home screen, tap Carte du jour.
  2. Tap the home you want to switch to.

  3. You lot'll be taken back to the app dwelling screen where y'all tin can discover the Nest products you have in the home you've selected.

Note: If you don't have another home already in the app, refer to the section below on how to add together a dwelling house to the app.

Create some other home in the Nest app

You can add your business organization, holiday home or other building to the Nest app so you tin install and use Nest products in more than one location.

Notation: If you sign in to the Nest app with a Google Account, creating a new abode in the Nest app will be reflected in the Home app.

If y'all are invited to share admission to a home with a Family Business relationship, that home likewise counts toward your abode limit.

  1. At the height left corner of the app home screen, tap Menu.
  2. Adjacent, at the meridian right corner, tap AddPlus icon.
  3. TapGo on.
  4. Give your habitation a nameand then tapNext.
  5. Enter your new abode's accostand then tapNext when you're finished.
  6. Choose if you lot desire to apply your telephone'south location to help with Habitation/Away Assist for your new home.

  7. If you have a non-migrated account, you'll be asked if y'all want to invite other people to share admission to your new abode. If you don't, y'all can always invite them later.

Once you're washed calculation your new abode to the app, you can add together Nest products to it.

Add together some other Nest product to a abode

Y'all tin add new Nest products to whatsoever abode in the app, whether you're the Owner or you've been invited to share access to a dwelling house.

  1. At the summit left corner of the app domicile screen, tap Menu.
  2. Select the dwelling house you desire to add together the product to.
  3. At the top right corner, tap SettingsNest settings icon.
  4. Select Add productionPlus icon.

For details about each Nest production, refer to the sections beneath.

Add together a Nest thermostat

Add a Nest camera, doorbell, or Dropcam

Add Nest Secure products including Nest Guard, Nest Detect, and Nest Tag

Nest Guard

You can only have one Guard per dwelling house in the Nest app, but y'all can install a Nest Secure alarm system, including a Guard, in another home in the app.

How to ready up and install Nest Secure

Nest Detect

You tin can add more than Detects whenever and wherever you need them. The app will walk you through a unproblematic setup and installation.

How to prepare up and install Nest Find

Nest Tag

If yous take Nest Secure and desire more people to share access to your domicile, y'all can requite them Tags for easy entry and go out without sharing your passcode.

How to prepare Nest Tag

Add a Nest 10 Yale Lock

Add a Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm

Move a Nest production to another dwelling house

If you lot take another home, you can move your Nest products between them. When you physically motion them to their new home, you'll likewise need to move them in the app.

The steps are unlike for each production. Select the one you desire to move beneath.

Nest thermostat

Nest cameras, video doorbells, and Dropcams

If your camera doesn't have a Nest Enlightened subscription:

  1. Remove your camera from the Nest app.
  2. Uninstall it.
  3. Install it in its new habitation.
  4. Select the new domicile in the Nest app.
  5. Set information technology upward in the Nest app.

If your photographic camera has a Nest Aware subscription:

At that place are a few extra steps you'll need to take considering subscriptions are attached to both your camera and the home y'all're in.

  1. Create clips or timelapses of whatsoever footage you want to save from your camera.
    Important:The next step will delete your camera'south video history and settings, so you must exercise this beforehand to preserve any memories you desire to keep.
  2. If your camera has a 1st gen Nest Aware subscription, cancel the subscription. This footstep will delete your photographic camera'due south video history and settings.
  3. Remove the camera from the Nest app and uninstall information technology.
  4. Install your photographic camera in its new home.
  5. Set up your camera again with the Nest app. Brand certain you select the camera's new habitation in the app before you begin setup.
  6. If needed, buy a Nest Aware subscription.
    • To purchase a 1st gen Nest Aware subscription for a camera on a non-migrated Nest account, go to the Nest Store. Otherwise, purchase a Nest Aware subscription in the GStore.

Of import: If y'all purchased a pre-owned Nest camera and receive a bulletin that says it's already in apply by some other account, contact the previous owner and ask them to remove the photographic camera from their account.

Nest Secure including Nest Guard, Nest Detect, and Nest Tag

Follow these steps to move Nest Secure products to another home:

  1. Disarm Nest Secure.
  2. Remove Detects from the Nest app:
    1. On the app home screen, select the production you want to move.
    2. Tap Settings Nest settings icon .
    3. Scroll down to the bottom and selectRemove [product name].
  3. Remove Nest Baby-sit from the app the same way.
  4. Reset Guard and all Detects to factory defaults.
  5. Unplug and uninstall Guard and any Detects.
  6. At present yous're ready to move everything to your other home. Start by adding your Guard to the Nest app. Make sure you lot select the new dwelling house in the app before yous re-add it to the Nest app.
  7. Add Nest Detects to the Nest app again.
  8. Install your Detects where you want them.

Nest Protect

Remove a dwelling from the Nest app

Annotation: If you sign in to the Nest app with a Google Business relationship, remove your home in the Home app. This will remove the aforementioned home from the Nest app as well.

FAQs most accounts for the Nest app

If you're the Owner, removing a domicile from the app volition also remove:

  • Whatsoever Nest products that have been added to the home from the app
  • Anyone you've invited to share admission from the dwelling
  1. At the peak left corner of the app dwelling screen, tap Menu .
  2. Select the home that y'all desire to remove.
  3. At the top right corner, tap Settings Nest settings icon.
  4. Select Home info.
  5. Tap Leave abode.
  6. Tap Leave to ostend.

Important: Yous'll need to cancel any active subscriptions separately when you remove a home in the Nest app.

Abolish Nest Aware

If you're moving and get out a Nest product behind

If you're moving to a new habitation and plan to exit a Nest product behind for the new homeowners, remove the production from the Nest app and reset it to manufactory defaults.

When y'all perform a factory reset, this volition delete all of your personal data from the product and allow the new homeowners add together the product to the Nest app on their own phones.

  1. First, remove the product from the Nest app.
  2. Then, reset the production to factory defaults. Select the product below for more details.
    • Nest thermostat
    • Nest cameras and doorbells
      Note: Nest Cam and Dropcam don't demand to exist manufacturing plant reset after y'all remove them from the Nest app.
    • Nest Guard
    • Nest Detect
    • Nest Tag
    • Nest Protect
    • Nest × Yale Lock

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