iPhone with Nest

[markwilliams82]

I’ve got an iPhone and my wife has now joined the iPhone family so instead of using google home on the phones to control home smart devices like hue lighting and nest cameras and door bells I was going to get the apple home app setup

I’ve got the hue lights working straight away but the Nest thermostat, camera and doorbell are not having it

The set up QR codes for the devices too don’t seem to get read by the Home app when adding a device

Any ideas ?

 

[markwilliams82]

Thanks, was just looking at that but seemed to be getting mixed messages if the nest devices work ‘out the box’ with apple

 

[markwilliams82]

The one I just saw was $99 so its not much cheaper?

 

[markwilliams82]

Thanks, I'd still need to buy and set up a raspberry pi or I presume have an old PC on 24/7 to set up and run?
As Starling is pretty much just add onto the network and set up it seems the easier option unless i'm missing something

 

[markwilliams82]

We're an iPhone house but find no issues using the Google Home app. I'd stick with it tbh.

If you want to use Siri for voice commands for google home though can you?

 

[markwilliams82]

how are you getting on with the google smart home?
I don’t find some of the voice support that responsive

 

[markwilliams82]

From experiences since having an iPhone, I’ve found that they’re more responsive when using voice commands

The google hub can be hit and miss whilst it can sometimes say devices are offline