Google Home is supercharging what your smart cameras can do

• Gemini in Google Home is getting improvements and new features.
• Routines can be configured to start when custom “visual insights” are detected by compatible cameras.
• Performance of Google Home widgets should also be improved.

Google Home is getting some new capabilities courtesy of Gemini. Starting today, users signed up for early access to Gemini on Google Home are able to create automations that’ll start when compatible cameras detect more or less any type of activity that you can write into a prompt.

Google announced the new features today in a Nest Help forum post. The post gives a handful of examples of the new types of “visual insights” that Nest Cams and other Gemini Built-in cameras can now use as starting points for custom routines: Google says nearly any event can be a trigger, including things like Amazon deliveries, car doors left open, and raccoons spotted in certain areas.