06-06-2019 00:44 via theverge.com

Nest doesn’t make a battery-powered doorbell, so now Google sells a power cable that needs to be drilled through the wall

Nest’s smart doorbell can only be installed on homes that have the right kind of doorbell wiring, so to open up the product to everyone else, Google has started to sell an adapter that lets you plug the doorbell into an outlet inside your home.
It’s not the most elegant solution in the world. You have to drill a hole through your doorframe in order to feed the wire from inside your home to the doorbell on the outside of it. But it’s at least some kind of solution, and it might
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