With a chrome cast

Ok, so I just installed mine the other day. I'm very impressed. I was worried about temperature. In the specs for the Hello it states that the operating temp threshold is -10C. I live in a climate where we get cold winters dropping well below -20C at times. After installing the doorbell and playing around with the settings I found that it displays the internal temperature. I'm assuming that is the temperature that you don't want to drop below -10C. The other night was around -12C and the internal temp was 23C. Overall I'm very impressed with the Hello and would definitely recommend. I've had nothing but issues with the Ring. Horrible video quality due to over compression.

I got a free google home from Home Depot, they prices matched nest.com. So I don't see why you couldn't do the same :)

SmartHome oh man now you got me wanting to try! I'm check it out thanks!

SmartHome after some back and forth with different employees saying they couldn't do it, I showed one of them your comment and they were like okay fine lol

lol thats awesome! Are you going to install it yourself? Post a video of it!

SmartHome did you do it yourself or you had a professional?

Jamal Mulkey August keypad to lock door

Liamjarviss oh ok. Looks cool

Kamran Siddiqi it looks crystal clear. Way better than Ring garbage

No, I've not heard anything coming from the home yet

hmm okay, I guess it's another "comming soon" feature, lol

I wondered about this. I wasn't aware they had actually done a demo of it. Perhaps more options will be forthcoming. For now I was kind of surprised that the only option seemed to be a conventional wired doorbell setup. I don't actually have one but looking into it don't see it as a particular problem other than adding some expense and hassle for something I don't actually need. At least the expense doesn't seem too great. I would have thought they'd have a POE option or at the very least a power only option with the ability to chime through Home and Home Mini or even Chromecast/Chromecast-Audio units. Perhaps that creates too much of a time-delay problem?

I don't have a wired doorbell and use the Google home as the "chime". Works great

I got it early at home depot, they had it on the store shelves. Almost every home depot has some now I think

That's great! I'll probably have to wait another few months, since the device isn't even available for preorder here in Germany..

The Symbol of Peace I have just a chrome cast and Apple TV. I can also view the cameras through Apple TV

Liamjarviss Ok thanks for the reply. It should work on Android TV then

The Hello seems to take longer no matter what is what I found. I don't know if it has to do with it not getting as much power as a normal Nest cam that's plugged into the wall.

Thanks very much for getting back with that. It's kind of a disappointing outcome as it seems to take nearly twice as long to load up. At least for my own personal use. Perhaps a firmware update might bring it line though too.

I sent them a twitter message and I some questions about the software. They said that the product isn't officially released yet and once it does come out, more features will become available. So maybe it will be faster to load over a software update. Here is what they said me to via twitter: "The Nest Hello has not been released yet so our Nest app does not have all of the functionality for the Nest Hello at this time as this software hasn't been pushed to the app yet.... however until the Nest Hello is officially launched in the coming weeks, the Nest Hello may be limited as to what it can do through the Nest app."

That seems a little boilerplate on their part. But I suppose that is more than fair given it is only just rounding the corner of actually launching. I would not guess the delay is to do with lower voltage. I'm hopeful it can be better optimized via software. I'm kind of on the fence between the regular outdoor cam and this Hello doorbell model. For me the startup time is somewhat significant. I don't tend to carry my phone around at home but I do have several Chromecasts setup around the house and multiple Home or Home Mini units. Taking around 10 seconds to launch rather than about 5 is a definite ding for me.