GOOGLE has finally issued a Nest update to patch up a bug that could leave homeowners high and dry in situations of burglaries and theft.
Last month, an update titled 1.69 for Nest Cam models made all night vision footage blurry.
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Daytime footage had been largely unaffected.
But that didn’t stop the bug from scuppering a Nest customer’s chances of capturing footage of their car being broken into overnight in October, according to 9to5Google.
The footage may have been valuable in a police investigation to catch the thief.
“Video quality is probably the worst of any smart doorbell at the moment since firmware 1.69,” one customer wrote on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month.
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According to affected users, advice via a Google help forum told customers to clean their cam lenses when they first complained of the 1.69 update.
Fortunately, Google has since confirmed that the issue is a software bug, and that an update is now rolling out to Nest Cam models.
Check if yours is on the list, here:
- Nest Cam (battery)
- Nest Doorbell (battery)
- Nest Doorbell (wired, 2nd gen)
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The roll out began yesterday.
Though it is likely to become available to all customers in the coming weeks.
Keep an eye out for an update titled 1.70.
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