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

Best camera for the money!

I loved the Nest right up until the nest aware free trial ended. I was using it as a baby monitor, and for some reason I hadnt realized that the little snippets it would send were part of the trial. Now I just keep asking myself why I spent so much on it if I just have to keep paying more to keep it useful. Definitely wish I could return it.

Great option for a alarm type function... alerts you to movement, even the auto lights going on and off... ( which can be a bit annoying though if you keep the alert function working ) ... also great for noise... easy to hook up and connect... very satisfied with purchase.

It is no nice to have a camera that attaches to my wi fi! Now I feel safe knowing that I can keep watch over my kids whenever I need to. Even when theyre with the babysitter and we are out on a data. As long as I have wi fi I can see them!

I bought this so I could set it up in my living room so I could see if someone was breaking into my house when I am on vacation, but I am having lots of fun with it watching the dogs when I am at work. I even gave access to my kids away at college so they can look in when they get homesick, although watching mom and dad snoogling with the dogs and watching tv is not all that exciting. Setup was a breeze taking only about 15 minutes...mostly to decide where to put the camera. Otherwise it has been install and forget. Picture is very clear and the night vision blew me away. I am finding that these are like potato chips...you cant stop at just one. I am considering one for the porch and one for our entrance way.

I have several Nest cameras. Generally speaking, the hardware design is decent - fairly easy to setup, though a minor quibble is the version I have support on 2.4 ghz. In a fairly dense area (with considerable activity on 2.4 ghz band) this can be an issue. I had one camera that was DOA out of the box, and I returned. The hardware isnt as fully featured as even the most basic of my fleet of Axis web cameras, but for quick surveillance apps, you wont go wrong with the Nest. The software, in my experience, falls well short of the potential of the camera hardware. Motion detection is quite poor - it is overly sensitive and generates many false triggering events. In particular, it is quite sensitive in outdoor applications to diurnal changes in sunlight, or even passing clouds. It pretty clearly needs a more advanced algorithm than what the camera seems to implement. Several ideas come to mind, but I didnt design this thing, so Ill leave it to nest to figure this out. One particular sore point in the software is the applications software. This is borderline amateurish, to say the least. I use multiple computing platforms, from Ubuntu Linux, Apple OSX, iPad (iOS), various Android devices. The software works differently on each platform, and each has its host of bugs and nuances. To my eye, seems to be the work of teams that loosely coordinate with one another, versus borne of a single UI and user experience design (sure, OS differences force some of this, but try navigating history or setting motion zones and note how each platform implements this). The history service is fairly expensive, IMO - $100 per camera per year (edit: per Nest support, this is for first camera, second camera is 50% off). If you have multiple IP cameras monitoring a property (typically, I have 5-6 cameras in each of our houses), this pricing schedule is clearly the razor blades to their razor (reference to Gilette biz plan) in their method of extracting money. If you have just one camera, fine, but with multiple cameras, this is not your solution. A local DVR would pay for itself inside of a year. If you do mount the camera outdoors (say for monitoring an entryway), youll have to resort to a third party housing ($$) and solve the limitations of the USB powering method they use. Any decent IP camera will offer IEEE PoE, which solves connectivity and power in one cable bundle. Also, be aware of the bandwidth used by the camera system - during daylight hours, for moderate complexity outdoor environment, the camera is raising my upstream utilization by a constant ~300 kbit/sec. I give this three stars for any user looking for a fast/quick single camera solution, indoors. Three stars because the software solution is poor, and the cost of 10 day retention is very high (eg consider what Dropbox costs for similar storage requirement). If you need more than one camera or want to use an outdoor camera, look elsewhere.

We have used these cameras for about 8 months now and they are wonderful. Picture quality in natural daylight it 10/10 nighttime quality is 8/10 but the notifications still pickup so it’s awesome. It has never not notified us of any movement and you can set that to whatever notifications you want in the app. If the power goes out so do the cameras and same with internet so that’s a bummer but besides that I highly recommend these to any family looking for that extra security. We use ours for nanny cams and security in our basement because we have garden level windows. We pay 8 dollars a month through nest to have 5 days continuously recorded and playback for notifications.

I have had the nest camera for about a year now. It has worked well with or without a subscription. I tried both ways. Least for my intent of being able to watch my pet when I not at home. My co worker enjoys it too when I was watching my pet who she likes. Security of needing a phone confirmation code is nice for logins and a good method to protect account. However lately the nest server goes down a few times making the camera useless and a paper weight. This is a big opportunity as there doesn’t seem to be any redundancy unlike the nest thermostat that can be used without any internet or service. Contacting customer service via chat during an outage or upgrade. Didn’t get a clear answer to what was happening. To me the conversation was mostly fluff and taking my comments to higher management. I didn’t feel that they were doing anything as mentioned above and to them it has happened a few times with there server going down.

Wish they had covers to disguise but I do like this. When I left b/c of Irma this was great until power went out. Even if I got a brand that uses batteries I think I would have had wifi issues (would have been great for hurricane evacuees to check on their house if that wasnt the case).

Not a sixty second set as quoted on the package. Far from it. I do like a lot of the features, but it would have made it a lot easier if they included a manual on how to use and set them up. Over all it does work well, and I do like it, especially after I got to know how to use all the features.