Samsung and Google Doorbell doth not make a good experience.

Oh well, I tried but I feel like I've hit a wall.

For those who love to Automate their homes, you may have multiple Home network speakers and lightbulbs and those amazing cameras, nice. For those thinking about it, this will help.

Our situation was we were spending money every month on a monitored alarm system which made little sense as technology got better.

The old system worked like this:?

1. The monitor gets triggered. (1 minute for a person to see the alert and pull down details for contact and take the next step)
2. The Call centre gets an alert (20 sec to 1 minute to react to create the next step)
3. Call centre alerts us of the monitor thats been triggered. (1-2 minutes to dial and wait for an answer, call secondary number and try again)
4. We give the permissions for any action. (1-2 minutes for a thought process to go over options with an understanding of costs to allow next steps)

There are many other scenarios that also play out if they don't get a response from us, which will mean they will get NZ Fire to send an appliance immediately.?Good feature.

However, when you have four people connected to a network which creates an alert from a camera or smoke detector, you have most situations covered.

1. The monitor gets triggered. (10 sec alert through the network)?
2. Everyone on the home network gets notifications of the exact monitor and what’s happening live.(10 sec to see and click on the device with the alert)
3. Take any action necessary like talk to the person inside our house or outside our door or call for NZ Fire service (20 sec for the person inside the house or outside the door to understand someone is talking to them).

Nest Protect will tell you what's smoking and where and the cameras will tell you who's at your place and you will be able to hear them through your Camera and talk to them through your speaker network. No more call-out fees for someone to walk around the home doing a visual check.

The camera system using Google Doorbell and the nest cameras are great unless you're using a Samsung phone.

Researching my Samsung Google issues, lead to reading many online questions and comments on the various community pages. There are people who think this is a Google issue.? I've tested the Google interface on Samsung, Oneplus, and iPhone, and the only one that doesn't play nice is the Samsung.

The user interface is where we judge the experience, this dictates how much time we will use a device to get what we want.?If we get what we want fast, we will keep using it, if it takes too long, we won't and we'll do something else.

This is why I'm posting this.?The Home Automation market is growing and in 5 years it will have grown from $45B to $114B* and this Xmas there will be tech-heads wanting to upgrade their homes with Home Automation for themselves or for their loved ones, for better security.

There are lots of angry Samsung people blaming Google for a bad experience and as I said above, I’m not sure it’s a Google problem.?The interface is great on the other 2 manufacturers' devices I own, one on Android and the other on IOS.

You get a far better experience on other Phones as Samsung misses out on all the good features that come with Google home Automation with Nest Aware.?You can still use Samsung with your Google home Automation, as I do.?Just without some of the easy-to-use video history and talkback modes and management.

Hey Santa, if you're reading this.?Pixel 6 please for the NZ market.?I'm picking that will Rock the Google experience.

(disclaimer I am not sponsored by Google, Tesla or Bitcoin, but open for conversations)