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

Easy setup, decent picture quality. Not easy to hook up to dvr,would rate it higher if they didn’t make you get a subscription to take full advantage of camera

Me and my fiancé were super excited to purchase this for our home. We were really disappointed after using it a month & returned it. The picture quality wasn’t nearly as good as we thought it would and also the picture was delayed as well as the sound by a few seconds. I love all my best products but this one we had to return : (

I ordered two different versions of the Nest, and this one was the lower price, the same great quality it just doesnt have face recognition (which in my opinion can be a bit annoying in the notifications after some time). This camera has a great wide angle view and I would order more for other parts of my house when I get the chance.

Excellent camera that works in all types of light.

The Nest Cam is expensive. The camera itself is probably lower quality than the one built into your iPhone. There is some added infrared lighting for night vision, which does work great. That being said, it cant cost them more than $40 to make one of these. I could excuse the insanely high markup, if it was not for the $100/year subscription required to use it. To be fair to Nest, the $100/year price is probably pretty fair. When youre talking cloud, bandwith is always the most expensive part of the equation. That being said, they could make the subscription feel more valuable by increasing the storage time. The base option should be 30 days, and the higher option should be a year. Storage is dirt cheap and that would make the service feel more valuable without costing Nest anything. Also, there should be a free option that includes 480p video quality stored for a rolling 24 hours. After all, you did just spend $200 on this camera so it should do something. Whats even more frustrating is the lack of common sense features. Having to manually go into the app and set your home/away status is insane. Nest is owned by Google and Google knows everything. There are about a million ways Google could determine whether you are home or not. The most obvious being - the location of your phone. Of course, if you buy their $100 smoke detector suddenly they can magically determine whether or not you are home. That makes sense. Another poorly implemented feature is the notifications... They do not come right away. Why would I care if someone was in my house 15 minutes ago? I care if they are in there now, so I can call the police before they leave. The delay is a joke. Finally - the video quality is NOT 1080p. Its pretty horrendous. It would never be good enough to prove in a court who burgularized your house. I have 50mbps internet from Comcast and a brand new router, so its NOT my internet causing the poor video quality. The camera just sucks. Even if you set it to 1080p. All that being said - I knew most of these cons and I bought it anyways. Unfortunately, theres not a lot of competition. Also, you know Nest isnt going anywhere since they are owned by Google, so theres not really a risk of the cloud recording suddenly going away. Its sad that I bought something that I knew was a 1 star product just because its the best available. Entrepreneurs take note - with a more little common sense and a little less greed, you could easily become the best product in this (quickly growing) market. ****UPDATE: PLEASE IGNORE COMMENTS FROM NEST BELOW**** Nest is responding to all negative reviews in an attempt to discredit our reviews. Please ignore their comments below, because they clearly missed most of my points. Rather than taking feedback, they are more interested in convincing everyone that everything is fine and dandy. This is a garbage product and Google should be ashamed. They have not issued any updates for the Nest Android App since the Nest Cam came out, despite all the hate on here and the app store.

This is the first indoor cam we have purchased and upon setup and earliy use seemed like it functioned well. After a few weeks of using though there are two serious issues. The first is the audio output using my Samsung S10. The output through the Nest cam is so faint its almost inaudible. There is no fix. We put the app on my laptop and the audio output works as it should. Do a search for Nest cam Android audio ouput and there are plenty of complaints with Android users for the past 2 years and Google has yet to update the app with a fix. The second major issue is the excessive notifications because of a change in room lighting. We have an open window in the room and any time the room goes lighter or darker it sends a notification, which equals a huge amount of false movement alerts. Using as a baby cam makes this super annoying and like the audio issue there is no fix to this. Im not a software tech by any means but in this day in age I cant imagine these issues arent fixable. I do not write many reviews. But this product needs software updating badly. Cheers

works great under the free subscription. Once the 30 days were over, I keep getting false alarms left and right. All of the features do not work when you do not subscribe. While I knew this when I bought it, I wasnt expecting all the false alarms. Nest says they use a different algorithm when you do not subscribe. That is just BS. If you dont need to know if there has been sound or motion and just use it when you want to monitor a room, then it will be great. If you want notifications when someone or something moves in front of the camera, then you have to subscribe, otherwise expect false alarms.

Subscription cost too high for diy surveillance, cameras heat up and are a safety concern (you shouldnt have to adjust the timing or quality), off line a lot (one was continuously off line and other cameras were further away and connected, outdoor camera view quality was not great and different than indoor cameras that were pointing outside, I had four cameras but went over on my data plan a lot. I really liked them but my house is an L shape and to cover the area I need several. This was cost prohibitive and to use the system I had to pay 60 dollars extra on top of a security system with no true security but self monitoring which did not catch people or a car in the view to indicate movement. How can it not recognize a car that just drove up? I liked the system and wanted to keep it but too many challenges without true security - if these issues do not bother you this provides great video.

Best camera for the money!

I recently adopted three turtles and had an outdoor pond built for them. One of them has an injury on her head and the vet thought it might be a raccoon injury. So I started shopping for a security camera to keep an eye on them. I got the Nest Cam because the aesthetics are simple and clean, and the reviews were good. It has been a fabulous purchase. The camera was simple to set up, the video quality is outstanding, the night footage is clear and crisp, and the lens provides full coverage of my backyard. Its amazing. Turtle cam while Im at work! No raccoons yet.