Google Nest Cam Indoor - 1st Generation - Wired Indoor Camera - Control with Your Phone and Get Mobile Alerts - Surveillance Camera with 24/7 Live Video and Night Vision

The camera works great in every way except this: they really need to implement scheduling for the Activity Zones for when they go active or dormant. They have a scheduling option for turning the entire camera off or on; they just need to incorporate that into their Activity Zones. I always want my camera on, but only during certain times of the day (or night) do I want to know if Activity is going on in certain zones. At other times, activity in these zones are normal and frequent (Business hours) and I dont need to be alerted every 2-minutes of activity there; only at certain times when activity SHOULD NOT BE THERE do I need to be alerted. If/When they add this feature, this thing will do everything I need.

It seems like many reviewers are mad because they loved Dropcam and Nest is different in ways that seem to anger them a lot for some reason. I cant speak to that because I never owned a Dropcam. However, I did own a D-Link camera and it wasnt great (bad image quality, sketchy app, broke after about 2 years). I bought the Dropcam to replace my D-Link a few months ago and I have been loving it. I use this camera strictly for the purpose of spying on my cat when Im not home for a couple of days to make sure shes alright. The image quality is excellent, even the night vision, and the app is easy and reliable. Its a bummer that you have to pay extra if you want the motion capture videos, but Ill live without it. Overall, Im satisfied and Id definitely recommend this product as a pet cam.

Works great. I was able to verify from Italy that my house hadnt burned down yet. Setup was easy. I only needed extended cloud-recorded history while I was traveling, and it was easy to start a one-month subscription. However, when it came time to cancel, the account screens wouldnt show up properly in the app for a few days. Only after ~3 days could I bring it up and cancel my subscription. Not cool! The motion sensor goes off when it sees stuff like the shadow of a tree swaying in the breeze. Short of some advanced object recognition AI, Im not sure how they could fix that. Home/Away assist (an option that supposed to disable the camera when it detects my phone at home) didnt work consistently. It showed me a message in my app blaming my phone.

Need to give this a 3 star rating because while you have the free trial service, they keep telling you to sign up. I dont want to sign up for a monthly fee. I want to get snipits of whats going on in my house, warnings and let me decide whether to keep or not. After the trial is over, youre really not getting what you think is there. Unless Im doing something wrong. If youre going to sell a product, do not give me a free trial version. Just let me use the features out of the box that will work without your service fee. Then you can tell me the extra enhancements if I want to pay a fee. I hate when you purchase something and then when the trial goes away, its not the same. Very disappointing. If youre going to sign up for a monthly service, this works just fine. The camera app is a little wonky, but does an okay job.

I have Blink and this is my first Nest indoor cam. Both serve their purpose. Blink has no supsceiption fee, cloud storage is free, and it has incidental recording. Nest is always on (unless you turn it off). Nest is more than twice the price, but the quality! Nest is solid, really amazing. It was a little hard for me to position at first (thats what she said), but these things are addictive. Its really nice to be prepared.

Im so glad we got this camera for our home. Its an extra piece of mind to be able to monitor whats going on. Ive used the function where you speak to the person in the room from the camera and its nice a clear and has come in handy. A couple times my husband was trying to call me but my phone was in the car. He just calls through the speaker. Our dog can even hear us through that camera. Ive gotten him to go outside through the doggy door a couple times even. The quality is superb. I highly recommend this product

Very simple to set up, and very easy to ignore, as it doesnt require any particular attention once set up. Since it operates over Wi-Fi, there are no cords to run beyond the lengthy USB charging cable (supplied), allowing you to pout it almost anywhere. Moving it is also simple. The picture quality is excellent, and the built-in speaker and microphone allow you to carry on a quick conversation if you wish. The iOS software is simply the existing Nest app, the same app used for the Nest thermostat and smoke detector. You can check on the camera the same time you check the other devices. The Nest Protect will send notices to your iOS device when it detects movement, even in the dark, and you can create a schedule of when you want monitoring, and when you do not.

The least frustrating thing about this product is opening the box. Setup has been a nightmare! Components meant for Nest Cam dont fit. Cords recommended by Amazon break after the first day. The suction cup window option doesnt work if you have window blinds. The largest amount of bandwidth my Internet supplier can provide is not enough to run these three cameras. The app is terrible. Its so simple, you have no control. I signed up for the Aware subscription and it applied it to the the main camera and the camera we dont have setup right now! No option to fix it. Terrible. Flawed. Motion sensor cuts off mid incident if the person in question takes a stutter step, missing the act in question. The camera does its job at high resolution, but the support software and components are AWFUL. The company wants you to pay for an installer on top of the purchase price. Like the camera dont like my first experience with Nest and how they support these cameras.

These cameras worked fairly well when they were on. I paid for the subscription and they recorded, caught a decent enough picture and sound. The location ability of their app in correlation with my iPhone X was terrible. They would sometimes not turn on (despite the app indicating I was not at home) and they would sometimes turn on (while the app indicated I was at home). This first issue was more prevalent with all 3 cameras, while I did have an issue with 2 cameras turning on while I was home. Nothing in location had changed, in fact, my phone was still sitting on my desk the whole time. I realized it had turned on when I stood up from my meeting and got a notification that there was motion (I guess the motion detection works, but the noise coming from my speaker phone did not notify me, you could at least hear it on the recordings). Nests technical support answer was to uninstall/reinstall, unplug, reset, blah blah blah. They ended up with not having a true solution and credited me with $50. Which I will not use because I cannot use a service where my expectation of privacy is violated and no true solution developed.

The camera was easy to setup and install. The phone application required a little figuring out to get things correct. The camera is dependent on your internet connection so if its fast it will work better. The focal length is about one average size room. The zoom works but the quality of the video gets blurry. The camera when programmed on a computer works very well relating to detection zones, once setup correctly. I dislike the auto detection as it DRAINS your phone battery because it continually uses you location. I have found disabling that and using the manual setting works very well and fast. When you leave all you have to do is touch a button on the front of the application to activate it from home to away. Very simple and fast. Overall, I am very satisfied with the product and do recommend it. When activated, when I walked into the detection zone I setup I got an email indicating activity before I could walk two rooms away. Very very nice.