For the love of everything, do not do this unless you are OK with all your video being public and open to anyone who wants to see you or your house.

There are many workarounds mentioned publicly, that all suggest using third-party software, that require making the camera stream public under the assumption that nobody can guess the URL. The problem with that is we needed to pay for a subscription, and in my humble opinion, it’s a bit pricey. One of the staples of the camera was the capability to record footage and then replay it later. We recently got a Nest cam, and we absolutely love the capabilities it brings to our home. None of these items use official REST APIs (unfortunately, those don’t expose the video stream), therefore can break at any time. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: What I describe below was put together by analyzing how the Nest apps communicate with the infrastructure. TL DR: Go to GitHub and clone foggycam to capture unlimited-length Nest video streams to any storage of your choosing without paying for Nest Aware. There is an updated version of this guide.

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