Get started with Google Home Premium

Nest Aware is now Google Home Premium, a reimagined whole home paid subscription that builds on Nest's trusted security and existing features. It offers essential event and continuous video history, intelligent alerts, and emergency calling for a safer home.

This subscription further introduces advanced Gemini-powered AI for effortless automations, smarter insights, and a more intuitive, whole-home experience

Start with either Standard or Advanced subscription.

Important: Features vary based on your device and home region.

What you need to use Google Home Premium

A Google account
Residence in a country that supports Google Home Premium
Internet connection for your home
Access to the Google Home app
- Access to the Nest app for camera devices purchased before 2021
A Nest camera, doorbell, speaker, display, or a compatible partner device

Set up a Google Home Premium subscription

Choose between the Standard or Advanced plan.

	Google Home Premium
Features	Standard plan	Advanced plan
Live view
Two-way talk & listen
Quick responses
Doorbell themes
Activity zones
Zoom & crop
Filters for event history
Works with Google Assistant
Emergency calling	(US only)	(US only)
People and motion detection and alerts
Animals, vehicles, packages detection and alerts Important: Package detection for Nest Doorbells only
Garage door detection and alerts
Familiar faces
Sound detection (Smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm) Important: No CO alarms for legacy cameras. Available on: Google Nest speakers and displays Nest Hub Max Nest Cam Indoor Nest Cam IQ Indoor Nest Cam (battery)	(US only)	(US only)
Event history Important: Nest Camera (battery) must be wired to power. Nest Doorbell (battery) doesn’t have this feature.	30 days EBRs (Event-based recordings)	60 days EBRs + 10 days 24/7 video history
Alerts with zoomed-in previews
AI notifications
Ask Home Simple and complex device queries Real time device control Complex queries with camera Memory
Home Brief
Camera automation
Help me create

To activate your Google Home Premium subscription, subscribe through the Google Store. Learn how to buy Google Home Premium subscription on the Google Store.

Tip:

Keep your Nest notifications on to get alerts for Nest camera motion or sound events, network issues, and additional services reminders. Learn how to change your Nest notification settings.
Some devices might have limited feature availability. Learn about features by device.
Gift subscriptions aren't available for Google Home Premium.

How to use Google Home Premium

Familiar Face detection

Important: Familiar face detection² is available on select older and newer cameras, and might not be available in certain locations.

Your Nest camera can remember familiar faces and notify you when it detects people it doesn't recognize. You can manage your face library to name face profiles, identify new faces, or delete face profiles. Learn how Familiar face detection works.

Motion and sound events

Important: Sound detection is only available in the US.

Google Home Premium uses advanced algorithms to send you more intelligent motion and sound alerts.

Cameras

Nest camera models offer varying levels of person detection. You can get “Person seen” or “Familiar face” alerts.

If you have a Nest doorbell, you can also get package alerts when a package is dropped off or picked up in its view.

Some cameras can send different alerts for different sounds. With Google Home Premium, these cameras can tell the difference between a person’s speech and a dog’s bark. You can pick which sounds you want to get alerts about and which ones your camera should ignore.

Speakers and displays

Important:

Emergency calling and glass break alerts aren’t available in the Nest app.
Google Home Max doesn’t support sound detection.

Google Nest and Home speakers and displays in the US can detect sounds like smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and breaking glass. If detected, Google Home Premium sends an alert to your Home app that allows you to use Emergency calling with the Home app if necessary.

If you set up the Nest Cam on Nest Hub Max, you can also get notifications in the Nest app. Learn how to set up your Nest Cam on Nest Hub Max.

Sound detection

With Sound detection enabled, any home member can get a notification, hear a short recording, or listen live on their device. Learn how to set up Sound detection on your camera.

If you have a speaker or display, learn how Sound detection works for speakers and displays.

Set up Activity Zones

You can create your own custom zones to cover the areas you want to be notified about. When there's important activity in a zone, Activity Zones let your camera send alerts and mark your video history timeline.

Learn how to set up and use Activity Zones.

Emergency calling

Important: Emergency calling is only available in the US.

You can use the Google Home app to contact an emergency call center closest to your home with Emergency calling, even when you're away. From the Activity tab, make emergency calls during emergency events. To use Emergency calling, you must complete the setup in the Home app.

Learn how to set up Emergency calling in the Google Home app.

Push notifications

You can receive push notifications from Google Nest products and know about important events, emergencies, and technical issues. Enable Nest notifications to receive alerts about Familiar faces, sound events, and Emergency calling.

Video history

Your Google Nest camera or doorbell automatically saves footage to a cloud-based video history service. Learn more about how to access your camera’s video history.

Your video history shows only clips of these motion or sound events. During times with no detected events, it shows blank areas.
Event video history isn't available for 1st gen Nest Aware. 24/7 video history is only available for wired Google Nest cameras and Nest doorbells. It isn’t available for Nest Doorbell (battery), even with optional wired installation.

You can watch and save video clips of activities with the Standard plan of Google Home Premium’s 30 days of event video history. Upgrade to the Advanced plan and get 60 days of event video history, plus up to 10 days of 24/7 continuous video history.

How many days of event video history and 24/7 video you get is based on your Nest camera model and Google Home Premium subscription. For more information about video history, go to Event and 24/7 video history.

Create and share video clips

If your Nest camera captures a moment you want to remember forever, like your baby's first steps, Google Home Premium lets you save and share it.

Learn how to create, share and get video clips and timelapses.

Create video timelapses

Timelapses can condense up to 24 hours of video into a 30, 60 or 120 second clip.

Learn how to create, share and get video clips and timelapses.

Gemini for Home

Gemini for Home includes AI features in the Google Home app.

Gemini for Home voice assistant

This allows you to use Google’s voice assistant integrated with Gemini. It enhances features and offers additional features not supported by Google Assistant.

Learn more about Gemini for Home voice assistant.

Gemini for Home camera features

Feature	Description
AI descriptions	Processes recorded camera events on Google servers to provide more detailed short and long descriptions of what happened
AI notifications	Provides short versions of AI descriptions within camera event notifications, making it easier to see what happened at a glance
Home Brief	Provides an overview of what happened at home each day

Learn more about Gemini for Home camera features.

Create automations in Google Home with Help me create

Help me create uses Gemini to create custom automations for your home. These automations are based on the devices that you have in your home. Help me create is still in development and may not work as expected in all cases. Always verify that any automation or setting created works correctly.

This feature has limited language support.

Additionally, not all behaviors may be supported at this time, but more support is added regularly. For more information about this feature, go to Create automations in Google Home with Help me create.

Learn more about Help me create automations.

Ask Home

You can use streamlined smart-home controls, get information about your home's status and history, and create personalized automations. It remembers your preferences and personalizes interactions.

Learn more about Ask Home.

Understand Event detection accuracy

Nest cameras and doorbells help show you what happens at home, but the technology isn't perfect. We try to make our camera events as accurate as possible, but issues like these can happen:

A picture can be confused with a real event. For example, a t-shirt with a picture of a dog might cause an animal detection event.
A person who crawls on the ground can be misidentified as a pet.
Close relatives can be misidentified.

Related resources

¹_{Google Home Premium Premier Care experts are available in English for US users. All Google Home Premium users receive 24/7 Customer Care.}

²_{Familiar face alerts are not available on Nest cameras and doorbells in certain locations, including Illinois in the United States.}

Was this helpful?

How can we improve it?