Transfer Nest Cam Ownership (Things To Know).

Smart home manufacturers are always coming up with new gadgets that help us in our daily life and increase our comfort, convenience, safety, and shrink our bills.

This is the reason why smart technology is spreading fastly and its market is growing rapidly.

The Nest security cameras by Google are one of these gadgets that will improve safety inside our house, this device changes the way of doing security tasks.

With these cams, you can keep an eye on your house and see what’s happening remotely from your smartphone.

A lot of people who own a Nest cam are asking how to transfer the camera to a new owner?

In this post, we’re going to discuss some of the features of this device in case you want to know about it and show you how to change the owner of your Nest cam.

How do Nest cameras work?

Without any doubt, the Nest cam is one of the best quality of all the cameras on the market, with their indoor and outdoor cam this device will allow you to track any movement inside and outside your house remotely from your mobile phone.

This makes it suitable for working parents who pass all day in the office and want to see if their children are safe.

It is also ideal for families when they go on holiday and they leave their home alone.

You can access this cam from your mobile or tablet through the Nest app, all you have to do is to open the app, then select your cam and the live video will appear.

It is also possible to access it from your computer at home.nest.com, you’ll enjoy full HD videos.

The camera has the possibility to send you a notification to your phone when it detects movement (some models can tell the difference between a person, vehicle, and an animal.).

So you can intervene easily when a potential intruder approaches your house.

You can use the outdoor microphone cam to deter suspicious people, also the indoor microphone to talk to your children and people inside your house.

Nest offers a subscription plan starting at 6$ a month to get more video history, detect familiar faces, call the emergency from the Home app to notify the call center closest to your home, and much more things.

How to transfer the Nest camera to a new owner?

When you sell your Nest cam or you give it to someone else it is important to change the owner inside your camera and this is a simple thing to do.

Simply put to transfer the Nest camera to a new owner you need to remove the device from your account, then the new owner will be able to set it up on his account in order to benefit from its features.

What you need to know before removing your Nest security cam:

Before removing your Nest cam you must know that when you delete the camera you’ll not get notifications and you won’t be able to change the setting or access the camera and all your past recorded videos will be deleted from the history.

So if you want to access the camera again you need to get permission from the new owner to invite you as a family member or a guest we will show you how to do that later in the article.

But you must know that you’ll not have the same authority on the device as the owner.

How to remove your Nest camera from the Nest app:

all you have to do is to follow the next detailed steps in order to remove your Nest cam from your account:

1. Go to the Nest app on your mobile phone or tablet.
2. Log in to the Nest app.
3. Tap Menu on the home app screen.
4. Select the home that has the product you’d like to remove.
5. Select Settings.
6. Select the Nest cam you want to delete.
7. Scroll down and select Remove.
8. Then confirm your choice.

Reminder: it’s essential to not unplug your cam until the light will pulsing blue.

It’s important because when you unplug the device before the blue light appears you’ll have to reset the camera to back work again.

If you’re not going to use your Nest product again, make sure to do a factory reset.

A factory reset Erases all your settings and options and restores its factory default settings so it will be ready for the new owner to set it as he wants.

How the new owner will add his account:

After you remove your account The new owner will have to set up his account and connect to the Nest Cam in order to benefit from this device:

So follow the next steps in order to set up and connect the Nest cam:

Download the required app:

Use the Google Home app if you have Nest Cam (wired), Nest Cam with Floodlight, or Nest Cam (battery)

Use the Nest app if you have Nest Cam IQ Indoor, Nest Cam IQ Outdoor, Nest Cam Indoor, Nest Cam Outdoor, or Nest Dropcam (all models).

Add your camera to the app with the QR code:

The instructions are different between “Home app” and “Nest app” so you need to choose the instructions that are compatible with your device.

Home app:

• Open the Home app on your mobile or tablet.
• On the home screen, tap Add device or service.
• Select Set up device.
• Tap New device.
• Choose the home you want to add your camera to, or select Add another home to create a new one.
• Tap Next.
• select the camera model you have as the device you want to set up. Scan QR code or type the numbers at the top of the QR code.
• The app walks you through setup and installation.

Nest app:

When you’re new to Nest:

• Download the app on mobile.
• Open the app and create an account.
• Tap ADD on the app home screen.
• Scan the QR code or type the numbers at the top of the QR code.
• The app walks you through setup and installation.

When you already have an account:

• Go to the Nest app.
• Then select Settings.
• Select Add product.
• Scan QR code or type the numbers at the top of the QR code.
• Then the app will walk you through setup and installation.

How to add a new member to your Nest cam account?

A new owner may want to add new people like his family members in order to give them access to the cam so they can monitor the house when the owner is busy or whatever.

The Nest cam has the possibility to support one owner, and Up to nine additional people with Full Access.

These people will have the possibility to control all devices from the app, change settings and view account and activity history also invite other people.

While the owner will have the same option as people with full access but he will have additional features like Change billing and managing subscriptions.

So in order to add people to your cam, you may follow the next steps:

1. Open The Nest app on your mobile.
2. Go to the setting at the top right of the app.
3. Select “Family & Guests”.
4. Click on the plus button that means “Add a person”.
5. Enter the email adress of this person or add it directly from your contact.
6. Tap the “Send invitation” button.

In order to be able to access the cam from their own app, they have to accept the invitation.

Do I have to migrate nest to Google?

Nest is a company owned by Google and it’s specialized in manufacturing smart home products.

Recently Google recommends users to migrate to a google account, benefiting from industry-leading protection and a single account across the Nest and Google Home apps, and all of Google’s other products.

When you set up any Nest device you have the ability to add it to your home in the “Home app”.

This way you can control it with other compatible devices such as your smart bulbs or Google smart speaker and hubs in the same place.

Nest app will continue to work but many future cameras manufactured by Nest will require a Google account, so make sure to switch to Google when you set up a new account.

Final words.

This is all you need to know about how you change the ownership of the Nest Security Camera, and we hope that the article was helpful for you.