Ecobee’s video doorbell now integrates with Google Home

You tin present spot unrecorded video feeds from Ecobee’s Smart Doorbell Camera connected Google astute devices. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Ecobee has announced an update to its Smart Doorbell Camera that yet adds integration with Google’s Home app and astute displays. The company’s video doorbell debuted with enactment for some Apple Home and Amazon Alexa when it launched successful precocious 2023, but integration with Google’s astute location ecosystem was promised arsenic a aboriginal update arriving sometime successful 2024. Although its Google integration arrives a twelvemonth later, it adds to the unsocial functionality of Ecobee’s astute doorbell, which tin use the company’s astute thermostat arsenic a video intercom.

The update enables unrecorded video from Ecobee’s doorbell camera to beryllium viewed done the Google Home mobile app oregon astute displays similar the Google Nest Hub and accessed utilizing dependable commands done Google Assistant. The app and devices tin besides beryllium utilized to remotely talk to visitors done the astute doorbell’s speaker, portion alerts volition beryllium delivered to Google Home devices erstwhile the doorbell is pressed.

The caller functionality perchance makes Ecobee’s $160 Smart Doorbell Camera a cheaper alternate to the $180 wired Nest Doorbell. But portion Google’s doorbell offers 3 hours of escaped lawsuit recording, Ecobee’s doesn’t see immoderate recorded video gratis — either successful the unreality oregon stored locally. You’ll request to wage $5 per period oregon $50 per twelvemonth to store motion-activated video clips successful the unreality for 30 days.