The Nest Doorbell (battery).
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If you are having bother together with your battery-equipped Google Nest Doorbell or Cam charging and are living in a chilly local weather, Google has some solutions and recommendation for you. On a toughen web page reportedly posted this week, the corporate showed that “at temperatures underneath freezing, the lithium-ion battery to your Google Nest digital camera or doorbell will not be able to price.”
This follows a 9to5Google file from January that pointed to the charging issues.
The battery-equipped variations of the Nest Doorbell and the Nest Cam can function at minus 4 levels Fahrenheit (minus 20 levels Celsius) so long as their batteries have juice, the toughen web page says. However for the batteries to recharge, the temperature needs to be a minimum of 32 F (0 levels Celsius).
At underneath that, the corporate added, batteries may additionally drain extra briefly, with their lifestyles expectancy doubtlessly halved because the thermometer dips with regards to minus 4 F.
Google says how you can recharge your battery is to deliver your tool to a heat spot, “ideally room temperature.” Because the battery warms up, it’s going to steadily begin to price, transferring extra briefly because it will get toastier.
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“While the battery is still cold, the Home app will show ‘Charging paused’ or ‘Charging slowly’ and a long estimated charge time,” the support page says. “The estimated charge time will get shorter as the battery warms up.”
It doesn’t matter if your battery-equipped Nest Doorbell is hooked up to your existing doorbell wiring: The battery is still what’s powering your gadget, and even though it gets “trickle charged” through the wiring, it can’t charge below 32 F. If the battery dies, the doorbell will conk out, and Google says you’ll need to bring it inside for charging.
So, you know, in freezing weather, you’d better fix up a little charging spot next to your hot cocoa coaster.
If your battery-equipped Nest Cam is wired in, the camera does get powered directly through the wires. So if the battery dies and can’t recharge because the temperature is too low, the camera will still work down to minus 4 F, provided the wired power source is still humming. If the Cam is connected to the Wasserstein Solar Panel, it’s only getting trickle charged, so the battery can run down and die in cold weather, shutting down the camera.
Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
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