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

TL;DR: For baby monitor usage, this is a dangerous product. While Id rate the industrial design and user experience design a 5, the service is a horrifying 1 star. For a product marketed to monitor a babys safety or a homes security, they are absolutely failing on service reliability. Nest advertises this as a baby cam, numerous online articles support this. I bought full-in, two cameras for the nursery, excited about the potential of this product. I love well-designed products, and am excited about the connected home concepts coming out. Over the past month, Ive had numerous issues, chipping away entirely at our confidence in the service. And you HAVE to use the service to use the camera. Specific examples of issues encountered while attempting to monitor the safety of our baby girl: - Camera randomly goes offline (regular occurrence) - Camera randomly shut down and disappeared from account while in use (rendering Nest Cam unusable for the night) - Image freezes on frame of baby sleeping (while it turns out the baby was awake and moving unbeknownst to me) - Recent entire system outages with zero accessibility to nest accounts, and thus Nest Cams and Dropcams - Communication from Nest about issues is abysmal. System status page reflects no problems when there are catastrophic problems. Zero proactive communication from Nest about issues, vague and delayed communication on twitter account. Get the feeling theyre not being up front about issues. You cannot trust this companys service to be reliable at this time. And given how problematic this has been, I have to wonder if I can even trust my very private data to them. What are they doing over there? Get it together. I REALLY want to believe in your product, I really want to buy all-in, but I cannot place my familys safety in the hands of a company who clearly does not have their act together.

The Nest Cam is by far still the best cam out there. Its a bit fuzzy when zooming in, but the picture quality overall is very good, even on night vision mode. The only thing I dont like is the quality of the sound and how communication through the cam isnt bi-directional.

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.

We use it to monitor our grands when they come to visit. I keep my i-phone by my bed and I can check on them as they sleep without running down the hall. The screen is clear and detailed and I can even see my grandsons chest rise and fall as he sleeps. The audio is clear and very sensitive. Night vision is excellent. The only complaint I have is that they disable the motion detection playback after a 30 day trial and want you to subscribe for a fee. I think we should be given one screen at least of playback and I have notified the company about this.Other than that minor issue I highly recommend this product as it has given us huge peace of mind. The cam is portable and can be moved anywhere you have a power outlet. The cord is long enough that we have not had to use extension cords.The app works seamlessly with my phone with no glitches. I am able to pull up the cam when away from home and see and hear how our home is. ( I forgot to add that we have purchased 3 of these! Our son-on-law requested if for Christmas with their first born and when our second grand baby was born we bought his mom and dad one. I then purchased one for our home.) Update: January 15, 2016 We just returned from a trip several states away and I was able to monitor our inside dog as she slept on the couch, etc. It gave me peace of mind to see her even though we had family checking up on her daily and feeding and playing with her. It was neat to see such a clear live feed of her miles away.

I love these NEST Cameras. They are built with high quality and the image quality matches that. They may not be the most inexpensive cameras out there, but with these, you are definitely getting what you pay for. We now have 5 NEST cameras, including the doorbell.

Worked exactly as needed

Can’t disable notifications. Annoying! Every time someone moves in the room it notifies me. Turn off the notifications in app but it turns itself right back on. Bug in the app or whatever they say. Incredibly annoying junk camera. Better off with Ring if they’d let you live view longer.

Very easy to set up, looks good, great image quality day and night! Somewhat expensive to buy. There is maybe a 10 second lag between what you see on your phone and whats actually happening outside. Im guessing this is because it feeds directly to the Nest servers and then back down to your phone. I really like that there is no additional hardware (DVR, cables, etc) to install. Keeps it clean and simple. Will probably by another camera soon.

Could be improved especially with night vision

We have three of these setup and nest video history subscription. We have every corner of our downstairs visible and the upstairs kid bedroom and bedroom (which also has a view of the upstairs hallway). The image quality is excellent and setup ways very easy. We use these cameras as our personal security system with alert notifications for sound and motion or either one of the two. So when we are out of town or on vacation we can always check on our house and scroll through video history. The only other product that Ive tried is the blink system in which I purchased as a kickstarter. Albeit blink continues to make improvements with updates, the nest cam is leaps and bounds better for our needs. And the difference in the price between the two is irregardless to me, because essentially the nest cam is way ahead of the curve and I would say its 10x the value of the blink system.