Gemini for Home camera features help you keep up with important events captured on your Nest Cameras and Doorbells. If you’re a Google Home app user who meets the eligibility requirements, you can use the following Gemini for Home camera features:
- AI descriptions, which process recorded camera events to provide more detailed short and long descriptions of what happened.
- For example, instead of the usual “activity or animal detected” label, the AI description may be ”the dog is digging in the garden.” Learn more about recorded camera events.
- AI notifications, which provide short versions of AI descriptions within camera event notifications, making it easier to see what happened at a glance.
- Home Brief, which provides an overview of what happened at home each day.
- Ask Home video history search, which allows you to use natural language to search for a specific camera event.
These detailed descriptions make it easier for you to search and review your recorded footage. You don’t need to tap every recorded event to find out what happened, just use specific keywords in Ask Home or check the Home Brief in the Activity tab. You’ll also receive short versions of these descriptions in AI notifications.
Who can use Gemini for Home camera features
Gemini for Home camera features are rolling out to Google Home Premium subscribers with Advanced plans. You need to acknowledge the Gemini for Home disclosures before you can set up and use these features.
Availability of Gemini for Home camera features
Important:
- Gemini for Home camera features are only available to Admins 18 years of age or older.
- This feature has limited language support. It is currently only available in:
- United States (English)
- Canada (English and French)
- United Kingdom (English)
- Ireland (English)
- Australia (English)
- New Zealand (English)
- These features are only available on:
- Nest cameras set up in the Google Home app (launched in 2021 or later)
- Legacy Nest cameras that have been transferred to the Google Home app. Learn more about transferring devices to the Google Home app.
To use Gemini for Home camera features, you must first acknowledge Gemini for Home disclosures. If you’re eligible, you should see prompts in the Google Home app to try these features. You can choose which cameras will receive the features.
To enable Gemini for Home camera features for a camera:
- Open the Google Home app
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- Tap Home
Cameras
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- Tap on the player to bring up the overlay.
- At the top right, tap More
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- Tap Events
- Turn Gemini for Home camera features on.
- If it’s your first time setting up AI descriptions, you’ll be presented with a page with the Gemini for Home disclosures. After you’ve read the terms and agreed to them, tap Next.
- On the Gemini for Home camera features settings page, a list of eligible devices will be displayed. Turn on the devices you want to use with Gemini for Home camera features.
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Home
- Tap on the player to bring up the overlay.
- At the top right, tap More
- Tap Events
- Turn Gemini for Home camera features off.
- You may also turn off Gemini for Home camera features for individual cameras from using the Manage
option below the Gemini for Home camera features setting.
- You may also turn off Gemini for Home camera features for individual cameras from using the Manage
How to manage or turn off Home Brief
When you turn off Gemini for Home camera features for an individual camera, that camera’s activity will be excluded from your Home Brief. If you would like to turn off Home Brief entirely, you can turn off Gemini for Home camera features for all of the cameras in your home.
To manage notifications for Home Brief:
- Open the Google Home app
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- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
- Tap Home settings
- Turn Home Brief notifications on or off.
How to check and use AI descriptions
Check all recorded camera events in the Activity 
To go to your Activity tab and view the events:
- Open your Google Home app
- Tap on a camera tile or at the bottom, tap Activity
- Tap the event you’re interested in.
- At the bottom left, tap Information
to get a more detailed description of what happened.
For example, you might get “Person leaving package on porch” or “Car parking.”
How to search video history
To search for a specific recorded event, use the Ask Home search box available within your camera’s video history view or at the top of the Google Home app. To search events based on their descriptions, you can type phrases like:
- “Recent delivery.”
- “Unfamiliar visitor.”
- “Garage door opening.”
- “Did something eat my plants?”
- “When did the dog walker come by?”
- “Who let the dogs out?”
- When one person is detected during a camera event, the AI description might include their name if they're in your familiar face library. However, when multiple people are detected, the description may not include their names.
- If you search your camera events for someone in your familiar face library, the results include any event in which their face was detected. These results will appear even if other people were there.
- If you turn on AI notifications, camera notifications should include richer notification text with short event descriptions, if they're generated within a minute of the event happening. For example, you may receive a “Person seen” notification, which is later updated to a more descriptive description, “Person rides bike outside.”
How to check your Home Brief
In addition to AI descriptions for each event, you will receive a Home Brief every evening in the Activity
How to provide feedback
To improve AI descriptions, use the Thumbs up 
- Tap the camera event that you want to evaluate.
- Tap Information
- A standard feedback question will be available under the detailed description. Tap either Thumbs up
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
- If you want to provide more detailed feedback, tap Add feedback details.
- Important: You must agree to the clip lending agreement before you can provide more feedback.
- In “Event Feedback,” answer all applicable questions. You can write in the text box to help explain your feedback.