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

Constant connection issues with the cameras. Sometimes they will be good for weeks on end and some weeks they will disconnect 3-4 times a week and i have to re-add them to my account. The app has many bugs, one is when you zoom in and then zoom out all of the icons disappear. he other bug is when you open they app, in order to connect you have to hit the retry connection button 3-6 times before it will connect. The most disturbing one of all is when the cameras will turn on in the middle of the night by themselves and record everything you did at night after the lights went out. Its never all of the cameras that turn on just the one in my living room, bedroom and kitchen. I really feel that these are not ready for consumers even though they have been out for years. Its quite scary waking up in the morning to find out youve been recorded all night. I wish i could return these cameras. Stay far away from these things as they are really buggy and a massive invasion on your privacy.

Update! I have to say, with the latest application updates the nest app has gotten a lot better, I am not having any issues with streaming quality any more and the app is becoming more feature-rich with each new release. I still think the home screen should have bigger camera views but other than that most of my original complaints below have been solved! Keep up the great work Nest! Original Review: So much potential! I have had 2 dropcam pros for 2 years that were working great, I mostly used the old dropcam app because I could see bigger previews of what was going on and they streamed smoothly. I have very fast bandwidth (5 MB up/30 MB down) and both cameras are set at 720p. When I added the new nest cam a few days ago (also set to 720p) I now have to use the new nest app and it is constantly crashing and telling me I dont have enough bandwidth, despite the old dropcam app working fine with my old cameras and very high speedtests. I should have just bought another dropcam pro but even then they wont let me setup new cameras with the old app that works. Nest/Google: I sent this on your survey and the product forum: Please make the camera previews (the tiny round pictures) bigger rectangles (leave the protect and thermostat ones as little round ones at the top), fix the streaming in the app/bandwidth issues and fix the streaming warnings. I was one of the biggest nest promoters, I got my brother and my father in law and 2 friends to buy one, not so much any more....

Love. Purchased to use as a baby monitor for our first child, he is a month old and we havent used it yet because he sleeps in our room in a bassinet. However, we have been using it in our living room for security till we move him to his room in a few weeks. Quality of image is great! No issues with it disconnecting form the internet, love that I can access it on any device!

Super easy to set up, decent picture quality. Im not sure how high definition I was expecting but I felt a little disappointed. They do come in a tiny housing so I guess youre limited to the size of the components. No pan / tilt / zoom on these, if thats important to you. I do like the Nest app as far as keeping things consolidated in one area with the thermostat. You also pay a LOT for NESt branded stuff.

We use this camera as a baby monitor (with a cheap audio monitor for sound). I love that we can peek in on the baby no matter where we are. I wanted just the right angle on the crib - birds eye, basically - and didnt want to drill holes in the wall. We ended up mounting the camera to a surround sound speaker stand. I can adjust it up and down and move it around very easily. I do not pay the subscription to store/record video, since I dont really care about saving it.

I bought 4 Nest cameras and at the beginning they were all great! Went on vacation overseas and I started receiving messages that one of the cameras was offline with no wi-fi connection. It always took hours before it came back on which obviously impacts its functionality and the reason I purchased and installed these cameras was so that the house would be safe while I was away. I now returned from vacation and this same camera goes off line constantly. As far as to no wi-fi connection message, this camera is installed right by the router and is also next to another camera that is, and has always been on since installation. I just clicked on this order looking to ask to exchange this camera for a replacement which would work all the time (hopefully), but I got a message which said my return/exchange window expired on July 5, while I was overseas. The other 3 cameras are working well and have never gone off line, which proves that this one camera has a problem. Every day, for hours at the time it goes off line! I am very disappointed that I have to be stuck with a malfunctioning camera when I spent so much money on purchasing these 4 cameras!!!! I will also rethink buying such items in the future through Amazon!

Not sure why there are so many negative reviews. These cameras are great. We are using them for security and as a baby monitor and we couldnt be happier. We did a lot of research on baby monitors and ultimately decided that we wanted a camera with higher definition picture and these did exactly that. There is a 2 second delay but we can live with that. Way better than our Motorola we had before this. If youre looking for a baby monitor I would choose this!

This camera wasnt even under consideration in the past due to the subscription based cloud storage but bought it due to the new 3 hours of history that was advertised. Come to find out this is only movement triggered snapshots and no video. Even worse, snapshots are very low resolution and can only be viewed in the app in portrait mode with both sides cutoff. So what you end up with is grainy picture with a very narrow field of view which is basically useless. I mean really??? They can offer unlimited history for free and it would still be useless.. Granted live streaming is nice but thats not why I bought this camera. This is like those inkjet printer deals where you pay for the printer then have to shell out $$$ on ink. At least with inkjets you can use generic ink but with Nest you have no options. I have no complaints about the hardware but subscription and useless free timeline history kills the deal for me. I have since sold this camera and now trying out Canary which seems promising so far. Canary recently increased the free cloud storage from 12 hours to 24 hours and now offers unlimited downloads of actual videos clips unlike useless stills on Nest.

This camera, although a bit expensive, is incredibly easy to install and use. You can see video on your iPhone/Android, or on the website. This is a heavy, quality-built product with a great quality image in 1080p (you can choose 720p to reduce bandwidth and data usage) and a wide 130 degree field of view. The night vision is also superb. I have not subscribed to their monthly service yet, but I would highly recommend this camera.

I previously purchased a DropCam and found the app to be very useful. Nest has a broader agenda (to sell an integrated set of home devices) and the new app is designed to do that. But all I want right now is camera functionality and the Nest app is a few steps back from what the DropCam app can do with recordings. I am sure Nest will catch up.