Google Nest cam suffers outage, live video streams unavailable

Around five hours back, a number of Nest cam users reported 'camera connectivity' issues with their devices.

Google took note of the matter and issued a series of tweets indicating that the problem is associated with Nest Cam Live Video, Video History, notifications, Sightline, and clips features.

Apart from that, all other capabilities, including Nest apps, thermostat, and store, appeared to be working normally.

As soon as the complaints started surfacing, Google began fixing the issue.

It claims to have solved the live camera connectivity and notification problems for some users but the status page still shows issues with video history, which means many people are still facing the glitch.

Notably, the video history feature is critical to the basic functioning of Nest cameras.

As per Google's most recent update on Twitter, its teams are in the process of fixing and re-enabling Sightline.

This feature is similar to a timelapse which makes it easier for users to quickly review a recorded video and find out key moments within it.

"We will update you again when the issue is fully resolved," the company added in the tweet.

Even though Google is working to resolve the glitch, it's not the first time a problem like this has occurred.

A similar issue had also plagued Nest cams a couple of months ago in December, according to the "Issue & Maintenance History" of Google.

Before that, camera connectivity issues were reported in October 2018.