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Jeff Jones

• December 05, 2017 06:19
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Have you guys put any consideration toward integration with Google Home. I would like to be able to setup a system in a home and make Google Home aware of the cameras to be able to say "Hey Google, show me the front door" and it automatically turns on the TV through a Chromecast and displays the Front Door camera. Especially if you can pull any local camera feeds across the LAN to avoid bottle necks in the internet connection.

Around my area the internet upload speeds are dismal, so cloud cameras like NestCam are nearly useless. Having a local system like Nx Witness/DW Spectrum that is also compatible with Google Home could be a nice market to try and put this into.

 In addition to Google Home, being able to pull a camera up on the phone via the Google Assistant would be pretty handy as well.

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  Tony Luce

  • December 13, 2017 18:17

  Jeff - yes. We've given much thought to this.

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  Zouhair benchettab

  • March 15, 2019 20:46

  Google home integration:
  https://youtu.be/P39h6mAVXik

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  Jeff Jones

  • March 15, 2019 20:58
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  @Zouhair benchettab - You are going to have to provide a better explanation than that simple video.

  i.e. How does Google Home know about the cameras and how does it know the laptop is the destination monitor, etc.

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  Zouhair benchettab

  • March 15, 2019 22:29

  Sure, first in nx witness website api tool you must create an caption event, in my case I call it kitchen and living room. Second you must go to IFTTT and create an event. google assistant with webhook. when saying kitchen camera, the HTTP is executed in webhook, in nx witness you create a rule, when nx witness receives http from webhooks as Kitchen that executes in the layout screen of the camera. in nx witness everything is possible the limit to integrate things is the limit of you immagination :).

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  Jeff Jones

  • March 15, 2019 22:55
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  Pretty cool, but my imagination can get pretty advanced. More advanced than my own skill set. :-)

  I don't suppose you've found a way yet to feed the camera stream to a Chromecast so Google Home can intelligently send the feed to various TVs, automatically turning them on when asked?

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  Sam Buratto

  • September 04, 2019 13:25

  I have a google home hub. Would love to be able to see my cameras on it.

  Might have to do some investigating.

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  Thomas Chow

  • November 28, 2019 14:15

  I also have an Google home hub. Would love support to use it with nx (for viewing).

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  Norman Graafsma

  • December 17, 2019 19:44
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  Hi all,

  Our colleague Jason Lee made a short video about how to set up IFTTT to use the Google Assistance with Nx Witness. 

  You can watch his video HERE and the result HERE,

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