Can I See My Nest Camera On My Computer

Scout Nest camera video history on a estimator

If you're a Nest Enlightened subscriber, your Nest camera's video history will be stored automatically in the cloud.

You can sentinel your Nest camera'southward video history on your phone or tablet or with a computer.

To lookout the video history on a computer, sign in to your business relationship at home.nest.com and select a camera that has a Nest Enlightened subscription.

Note: You tin can but watch video history on a computer if you have an older photographic camera or doorbell that was originally set up with the Nest app.

Nest camera timeline

Your camera'south video history on a calculator volition include a timeline at the bottom of the screen that helps you browse your recorded video to find important events.

Your timeline serves 2 major purposes:

It shows yous when an event happened in your video history. Movement or sound are examples of camera events.
It lets y'all speedily go through your recorded video history so that yous can jump straight to events and see what happened.

To watch unlike parts of your video history, simply click on the part of the timeline that you'd similar to lookout from. Your video volition immediately jump backward or frontward and start playing from the point y'all clicked.

Let's take a look at the timeline's unlike parts:

Calendar

Select Calendar to watch video from a specific solar day. Depending on your Nest Enlightened subscription, you can go back a certain number of days in your video history.

For instance, if you lot accept a ten-day video history subscription, you'll see history for the last x days on a rolling basis. If you don't desire to lose certain memories, you can save clips.

Web calendar watch video

Time buttons

Utilize the 60 minutes (60 minutes), MIN (minute), and SEC (second) options to control the scale of the timeline.

This changes how much time is currently shown across the timeline. MIN is the default view. If you desire to run across a shorter period of time in greater particular, including the exact start and cease times of motion or sound events, click on SEC. Or to see a wider overview of your timeline, click60 minutes.

Notation: When viewing your timeline in 60 minutes or MIN modes, events that happen close together may be close plenty to look like a unmarried event.

Creating or viewing clips and timelapses

What the dots and bars mean on your timeline

Gray dots or bars on your timeline means that your camera detected motion or audio exterior of your camera'south Action Zones.
Colored dots or confined on your timeline ordinarily hateful your camera detected motion in 1 of your Activity Zones. The color matches the color given to the Activity Zone when it was created. So if you lot created an orange Activity Zone around the front end door, all orange dots and bars on your timeline mean that your camera detected action in that zone.
Multiple colored dots within of a gray line mean that motion was detected within of two zones while that activeness was taking identify.
Dark parts on your timeline
- If yous have an event subscription (Nest Enlightened or Nest Aware Plus), y'all'll see gaps in your camera's video history between events. This is normal.
- If you lot accept a Nest Enlightened Plus subscription, after 10 days y'all'll come across gaps in your camera'south video history. This is because the app will remove video that contains no activity, and then you'll only see video clips of activity.
- If you accept a 1st gen Nest Enlightened subscription, y'all'll only see gaps in your camera's video history if your photographic camera was turned off or was offline.
The white line shows the part of the timeline you're currently watching.

Leap to an effect

Hover your mouse over an event for a preview of that issue. Click an event to go to it.

SelectNew Clip to create a prune of the result.

Drag the timeline left and right to quickly fast frontwards and rewind. While dragging, snapshots announced above the timeline. Release to play.

Player controls

Movement your mouse over your video to reveal the playback controls.

Therewind button will rewind your video.
Thepause/play button will pause and resume your video.
Thefast-frontwards push button skips your video ahead from its current indicate. The push is grayed out if y'all're already watching alive video.
Y'all can forward to the end to bring you dorsum to live video. The button is grayed out if y'all're already watching live video.
While yous're watching your video history,LIVE in the upper corner will be greyed out.
You lot can clickLive to bound to the nowadays. LIVE is blue when you're watching live video.