If you are a Nest Aware subscriber, your camera’s video history will be stored automatically in the cloud.
You can watch your camera’s video history on your phone or tablet with the Nest app, or you can use a computer.
To watch the video history on a computer, sign in to your account at home.nest.com. Then select a camera that has a Nest Aware subscription.
While watching your video history on a computer, you’ll see a timeline at the bottom of the screen. The timeline helps you quickly scan through all of your recorded video so you can find and watch all the important things that have happened.
Your timeline serves two major purposes:
- It shows you at a glance when an event happened in your video history. Motion or sound are examples of the kinds of events your camera takes notice of.
- It lets you quickly go back and forward through your recorded video history so that you can jump straight to the action and see what happened.
Here’s what the timeline looks like:
To watch different parts of your video history, simply click on the part of the timeline that you’d like to watch from. Your video will immediately jump backward or forward and start playing from the point you clicked.
Let's take a look at the timeline’s different parts: the numbers in the image above match the numbered text below.
1. Calendar
2. Time buttons
Note: When viewing your timeline in HR or MIN modes, events that happen close together may be close enough to look like a single event.
3. Left and right timeline arrows
What the dots and bars mean on your timeline
- Gray dots or bars on your timeline means that your camera detected motion or sound outside of your camera’s Activity Zones.
- Colored dots or bars on your timeline usually mean your camera detected motion in one of your Activity Zones. The color matches the color given to the Activity Zone when it was created. So if you created an orange Activity Zone around the front door, all orange dots and bars on your timeline mean that your camera detected activity in that zone.
- Multiple colored dots inside of a gray line mean that motion was detected inside of two zones while that activity was taking place.
- Dark parts on your timeline
- If you have an EBR subscription (Nest Aware or Nest Aware Plus), you’ll see dark gray gaps in your camera’s Sightline between events. This is normal.
- If you have a Nest Aware Plus subscription, after 10 days you’ll see gaps in your camera’s Sightline. This is because the app will remove video that contains no activity, so you’ll only see video clips of activity.
- If you have a 1st gen Nest Aware subscription, you’ll only see gaps in your camera’s Sightline if your camera was turned off or was offline.
- The white line shows the part of the timeline you’re currently watching.
4. Activity Zones
5. Creating or viewing clips and timelapses
How to jump to an event
Player controls
The rewind button will rewind your video by 30 seconds. |
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The pause/play button will pause and resume your video. |
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The fast-forward button will skip your video ahead from its current point by 30 seconds. It’s grayed out if you’re already watching live video. |
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The live button will immediately bring you back to live video. It’s grayed out if you’re already watching live video. |
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While you’re watching your video history, the LIVE icon in the upper corner is greyed out. |
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You can click the LIVE icon to jump to the present. When you do, the icon turns blue to let you know you’re watching live video. |
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