Stream your security camera on TV using a speaker or display

Check on what matters past streaming your compatible security or doorbell photographic camera on your Goggle box. Use a Google Nest or Dwelling speaker or display, and Chromecast or a TV with Chromecast congenital-in.

What you lot need

  • Uniform security camera setup with the manufacturer's app
  • Google Nest or Home speaker or display

Pace ane. Fix your security photographic camera

If you accept a Nest camera or doorbell, find the instructions linked in the list:

  • Nest camera
  • Nest Doorbell wired

If yous have some other compatible camera, follow the steps provided by the device maker.

Note: Nest Cam (battery) and Nest Doorbell (battery) tin can just stream to a smart display screen. Larn how to Stream your security camera using your display.

Step two. Gear up your device

If yous haven't set up up your Chromecast and speaker or display, follow the steps below. Make sure you connect these devices to the aforementioned Wi-Fi network as your photographic camera.

  • Chromecast
  • Speaker or brandish

Step 3. Add together your camera or doorbell to the Google Dwelling house app

Step 4. Link TVs using the Google Home app

Note: The following steps are optional if you only desire to command your Boob tube with your mobile device or tablet. However, if you want to control your Television set using phonation commands through your speaker or display, follow the steps below.

  1. Make certain your mobile device or tablet is connected to the same Wi-Fi or linked to the same account as your Chromecast, or speaker or display.
  2. Open up the Google Dwelling app .
  3. At the superlative right, tap your account.
  4. Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your speaker or display. To switch accounts, tap another account or Add some other account.
  5. Go back to the dwelling screen, so touch and hold your device'southward tile.
  6. At the top right, tap Settingsand thenRecognition & sharing.
  7. Look for a banner at the tiptop of the page that says "Enable vocalization command and more than."
    1. If the banner appears, tap information technology and follow the steps to link your TV.
    2. If the banner doesn't appear but your email address appears nether "Linked account(southward)," your TV is already linked.

Note: If you lot go an "Error when linking device" error message, you must factory reset your Chromecast device.

Pace 5. Utilize phonation commands to stream your security camera to your Goggle box

To practice this:

Say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google," then:

Starting time stream

"Testify [camera name]"

"What's on [camera proper noun]?"

"[Photographic camera proper name] on [Chromecast device proper name]"

"Play [camera name] on [Chromecast device name]"

"Prove [camera name] on [Chromecast device name]"

Stop stream

"Stop [TV or Chromecast device name]"

Ready a trouble

"HA Cast" error when streaming an Arlo camera to your TV

If an "HA Cast" mistake bulletin appears on your TV when streaming an Arlo photographic camera, try the post-obit workaround:

  1. Turn off the motion-detection recording setting on your camera.
  2. Endeavor to stream again.

Arlo is currently working on a ready for this effect.

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