Hi @Laurie_Dale, welcome to SharpTools community.
Here are the steps to achieve what @Jason_Morris and @Keith_Croshaw did with their Nest cam and SharpTools.
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Go to your Nest account → Settings → under “Video” section, enable “Camera Sharing”. In the code snippet, copy the src link, including the “autoplay=1” in the end.
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Open your browser and use “https:” plus the src link copied from step1 as the url.
It should look like this.
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Once the video page is loaded, press F12 to open the developer tool to find the link to get the camera static image.
It should look like this.
https://nexusapi-us1.camera.home.nest.com/get_image?uuid=XXX&width=540
Please note that this url was deprecated by Nest as pointed out by @josh, so it may not work later. -
Head to SharpTools Manage Resource page, select “Media” at top, and create a new media using the link from step3 as the url, check “Enable Autorefresh” and set desired refresh rate. So the camera image will be displayed in the tile.
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In your dashboard, add a media tile from the media created in step 4. Edit the medial tile to change the dimensions as you want, change Action(Tap) to “Open Hyperlink” and use the same url in step 2 as the hyperlink, change Link Action to “Open in Modal”. Save it.
Now you should see the camera image in the tile, and it will open the video stream page in the modal window and auto play when tapped.
Per Keith’s comment, you may need to “kickoff” the session to access the image by opening the camera’s link (https://video.nest.com/embedded/live/XXX?autoplay=1) directly first. So, as Josh suggested, you can add a Hyperlink tile to open this link in the dashboard, and navigate back to the dashboard to keep the session alive so the media tile can continuously to access the camera image.
Let me know if this helps. 