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

I just got mine from Bestbuy today and I ordered the second one from Amazon. If you read this review until the end, you will know why I get it from Amazon... WHAT I LIKE The design: Impressive build quality and design. The design sleek and minimal compare to its predecessor. Looking at its appearance, and its weight, you can tell it built with quality material. It doesnt gives you the plastic feel and a typical IP Cam look and it can easily blend in to your home environment. You dont want to place an ugly IP Cam in front of your babys cradle or your modern living room. The easiness to setup: This is one of the simplest and easiest setup I have ever gone through. You only need to download app, and key in you network pass code. Right after that, you will be able to access the video feed. There are a lot of similar product out there which require you to change the port forwarding on the router but hey, as a normal home user we dont really care how the technical setup, we just need something that easy to maintain. Nest Cam is the Apple product in IP Cam world. The video quality: The video quality is great with the options to go from 720 to 1080 resolution within get the app. We used to treat IP Cam a tool for surveillance and security purpose but with the 1080 resolution makes you feel you are really presence in that location. Technology no longer serve the basic needs but its connecting you with your loves one too. (You can even talk and listen - hear the baby or tell your dog to get off the couch!) WHAT I DISLIKE The price tag: It will be really beneficial if Nest willing to lower down the price. I would really willing to purchase a couple more unit for different purpose but the price tag stopping me for doing that. For it to be of any use you need to pay the subscription, and it is a per camera subscription, which can get expensive fast. Come on Nest, is this the best you can offer us? The mobile apps: The mobile app has limited functionality when it comes to history or alerts. So far I have not received any alerts and I think it takes time for the Nest cloud computing algorithm to analyze. Ps. Side notes I do read a reviewer here stating that he got a display unit and it was paired. I am lucky to get a complete new unit from Bestbuy therefore I decide to get my second unit from Amazon although the shipping takes longer. I just want to avoid the problem he is facing. I will constantly update this review as I still need more time to explore and test on it. Thanks.

This camera is absolutely amazing!! The subscription for the cloud storage is a little high but I absolutely love the capabilities of the cloud storage. Tha ability to tell me if it spots a person versus other types of motion is awesome. If you can afford it the cloud option it is definitely the way to go but the camera is amazing even without it.

I gave the Nest Cam a shot despite a few concerns (detailed below) and Im so glad I did! I love my Nest thermostat and Nest smoke alarms and have wanted to try a Nest Cam for awhile. I have two Belkin cameras and they do alright, but I have just been extremely impressed with the Nest products and experience. I was reluctant after reading reviews here on Amazon. I was also reluctant after hearing that the camera will only alert you for movement once every 30 minutes. That is not customizable. Although that is still a concern, as you will see, it pales in comparison to what you get. I was also concerned about the monthly $10 charge for Nest Aware. Its not required, but after seeing its value, I will be purchasing it! Setup was easy and enjoyable. The camera was up and running quickly. To test it out, I put it in the same room the Belkin was hanging from the ceiling. I did a comparison of the night vision. No contest! (See photo). The Nest is perfectly lit in complete darkness. The only difference is that its black and white instead of in color when using night vision. This pretty much won me over by itself. The second thing that I noticed was the history. Every time there is movement a clip is generated and you can click the history icon to see all the movement clips (Nest Aware required) or go online to see the entire feed for the duration of your Nest Aware subscription (10 days or 30 days depending on what you signed up for). This sold me on getting the monthly subscription. The thing that totally won me over was the accuracy. I have had zero false alerts. Zero. I only have a clip when someone walked into the room, and I have a ton of clips for the times I walked in the room. With the Belkin cam on the other hand I had probably 95% false alerts - a difference in lighting from the windows, or whatever. I cant say, but I even had the setting on low sensitivity. It seemed every 5 seconds I would be getting an email saying there was movement that I had to check to verify. Nest cam removes that hassle. I am beyond thrilled with this camera. Over time I will be replacing all my Belkin cameras with Nest cameras. I have been completely thrilled with this purchase. I HIGHLY recommend this camera!

The first camera that is not only the best in price if bought in the 3-Camera Bundle, it has BY FAR the sharpest picture and amenities;such as two way communication or just to listen to what is going on in the room, and a great zoom.Also, the night vision doesnt always need to be engaged just as long as there is a bit of light in the room. Best buy, worth every penny spent as well as storage options. The 3 cameras I purchased made iCloud finally worth having on my computer/ phone.

I read so many great reviews about this camera on the Amazon site. I read mixed reviews on other sites. I should have stuck with my original intuition and gone with a different camera. The picture quality is so so. I figured 1080p would be clear enough to identify an intruder. Not so. The picture is slightly tiled. The camera turns on for no reason. I was getting mad at my wife because I thought she was spying on me. She was not, the camera would start whenever it wanted to. I can live with that. I cant live with it turning it self off when we are gone. It has happened every time. I need the camera to stay on when we are gone. It does not. I do like the fact that I can review footage from the cloud. It does let me know when something is not right. It also is only 50 percent on that. Quite often it says it detected someone, when no one was there. I do feel better having a camera, but not this one. I can not feel my family and house is safe when the camera turns off for no reason.

Love this camera! Extremely easy set up if you have a smartphone. I love that you can zoom in and out, the night vision, and the go live feature that allows you to talk and hear everything. The speaker is pretty loud! I can call my kid from down stairs eher it is mounted and they can hear me from upstairs! I can hear the clock ticking on the wall. Great motion and sound sensor. VERY well made! I was worry about the price, but it was sooooo worth it!

The Nest Camera is useless unless you are willing to pay $100.00 a year for Nest Aware. The camera works great, but once your free 10 days of cloud recording expires, the camera is worthless. The app will notify you that you had motion or a sound a few minutes ago, but you can go back and see what happened, you can only see the current image. For a $200.00 camera, I expect at least a few hours to go back and look at the footage. It is unfortunate Nest is forcing additional money out of its customers if they want a usable product. I have the Nest Thermostat, Nest Protect and the Nest Cameras. The thermostat and the protects are fantastic, but Nest has failed with the Camera by forcing you to buy a subscription service. Nest needs to step up like the Canary Camera did and give at least 12 hours of free cloud recording.

The camera works great! We have it inside, pointed at the outside of our front door through a window, and it is pretty successful. The only thing we had to adjust was to turn off night vision because the bright light was glaring off the window. So happy we got this as it really gave us peace of mind during the holidays if we weren’t home when packages were delivered.

i purchased the new Nestcam to add on to an existing Dropcam i already had in my home. Camera setup was easy, and the image is impressive at 1080. When i downloaded the Nest App, however, i was disappointed to find that several of the best features of the Dropcam App are not available. There is no multi camera single screen view, and the scrolling timeline at the bottom of the main viewing screen is gone. Reviewing footage is far more difficult in the Nest App, and the older Dropcam App will not add the new Nest Cam. I called customer service and was told that they plan to lose the older Dropcam App completely at some point in the future. I would not recommend Nest to any happy users of the older Dropcam and its App. If you have only Nestcams and dont know what you are missing from the old Dropcam App, you should be happy with the camera, and hopefully they will improve the App in the future. UPDATE: I have now had trouble getting notifications from the Nest Cam, and when I called customer service they told me that the Nest Cam, unlike the old Drop Cam, does not send notifications via email. I have been getting reliable notifications from the Drop Cam for months, but Justin at Nest Support informs me that Nest will be removing email notifications from Drop as well. This leaves only push notifications to Android and iOS devices, and leaves me and my Blackberry out of luck. The mobile App still sucks. No new updates since I first reviewed. Reducing my rating from 2 to 1 star. Wishing 0 stars was an option. Nest took a really great product and completely screwed it up. Anyone wanna buy a couple cameras? 2nd UPDATE Feb 2016: Still no improvement. I am now on an Android phone, and I can say that the additional function now available that were not available ob Blackberry do nothing to improve the experience. The Nest App, on both iOS and Android, is just about the worst application Ive ever encountered, and the worst app that I currently use by a long shot. A great cam without a great App is basically useless.

Its the usual excellent Nest product. However the 5 GHz signal is not as powerful as the outdoor version so the signal drops out about once a day and you get an email saying its off line. Ive seen this problem in two different houses and with the cameras fairly close to the WiFi router. I never have this problem with my Nest outdoor cameras. I suspect the smaller size of this camera has made the 5 GHz antenna and/or signal less reliable. However I would never buy a camera that is not dual band like the Nest cameras are. IMHO the 2.4 GHz band is too prone to interference due to it being longer range and with more interfering signals from microwave ovens, neighbor WiFi signals, etc. But 5 GHz works great with all my cameras and of course works at vastly higher speed. I have an older security system that only works on 2.4 GHz and the signals from the cameras are always iffy. Nest has spoiled me with the quality of their app, their programming, software, etc. Nothing else comes close!