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 have a Macbook Pro, Safari, iPhone 6, IOS Pros: First let me say that this is a stunning little camera I was able to set it up in no time Beautiful 1080 picture, 720 not bad either Great 130 degree field of view Cons: At 1080 there is a 45 second lag time. At 720 the lag is about 20 seconds. Only 3 alerts were sent to my iPhone over several hours of incidents The alert problem resulted in the 4 star review. We tried everything from Notifications settings to reinstalling. The weird thing is that both the laptop app and the iPhone app were recording the alert incident, just no audible alarm. Out of 4 hours worth of alert incidents I received 3 audible alerts. Very frustrating, indeed. I returned the Nest Cam to Amazon. Check out my review of the Arlo Q!

The new stands for the Nest Cams are great, much improved over the Dropcam design. I have three cameras set up around our house, one in the nursery, one outside housed in a Dropcase, and a third looking out our front window to the yard and street. Video quality at 1080p is good, but not great. Night vision works well, and having two-coms is great. My only complaint is that sometimes the cameras turn off when we arrive home, despite the settings for home/away being disabled. I may need to do a hard reset on the cameras. By the way, if you own Nest Thermostat you HAVE to download Skylark, which creates a geofence around your house so the Nest knows when youre actually home and away based on phones location. Not really part of the camera, but a major accessory, Nest Aware subscription. I feel like $200/year for three cameras and 10-day recording history is a little high compared to the competition, especially since Nest doesnt offer any sort of free 1-day or 12-hour options like some others do. Additionally, you are not allowed to set zone priorities unless you have a Nest Aware subscription for that specific camera. The zone priorities should be allowed on all cameras as long as you have a subscription. Without the zones, I would receive a lot of false notifications. All-in-all Im happy with the cameras and tolerant of the subscription given that a full blown security system would be astronomically higher.

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.

Ive had these about 18 months. They work very well during the day. Night vision is limited. The sound is basically a joke. I like the app that goes on phone & computer and we signed up for the 7 day data storage. It all works pretty well. On occasion they lose contact with my router and I have to unplug them all and re-boot, but not a big deal. Overall Im quite pleased. A quality product.

Ive tried a few cameras and this is BY FAR the best. It has solid wifi connectivity unlike the Yi camera and never goes offline. Also uploading and steaming to Nest Aware is solid and AWESOME. The only complaint I have is that I wish the stand was more versatile or Nest sold additional stands for various circumstances. The stand is too large in circumference to mount in my window frame due to the housing for my blinds. I use it for looking at my front area and have no desire to mount an exterior camera.

We bought this as an add-on to our existing baby monitor. I dont find it ideal as first line baby monitor bc it runs through an app that you could easily have closed when you would want to be alerted (there maybe changes in settings...but I didnt want to mess with turning them on/off constantly). What this is fantastic for is running over to neighbors for a few minutes (you will continue to stream), spot checking babysitter (we can only see babys room) or letting us check in on baby sleeping from work/when away (my husband and I both have access). It honestly gives this control freak mama so much peace of mind to be able to see if baby is still sleeping or has woken up when Im out running errands, etc without having to constantly text the sitter. So far we have had no problems with glitchy streaming, etc...our internet is pretty reliable-which is a must with this product. Ive bought a zillion baby products, this one is money well spent for me!

Night vision is a great feature, I feel safe using this camera as a baby monitor. I have 4 cameras, two in each room and only pay one yearly subscription once a year of $50 which is a very reasonable price.

Today, Oct 13, 2016: Defective cameras and billing issues makes this much worse...4 of my cameras are disconnecting at night and I am getting alerts at 2 AM. I cannot stop the midnight notifications. I called Nest support about poor connectivity. The tech and I agreed that I should remove the 4 cameras from my account because they will otherwise wake me up every night. He told me to REMOVE the cameras. He told me that I would get credit. OOPS... thats not actually true. Removing the cameras only puts the the cameras subscription in a holding area. It does not issue a credit. Thats pretty shady, because a credit will actually NEVER come back to me. How do I know this? I called again and was elevated to senior support. They told me that I had to also do one more step in their account system to get that credit issued to me. WOW... Why am I angry? Ive removed more than just those 4 cameras today. There were 3 or 4 others that I removed more than a year ago. All this time I had been told that there would be a credit and it would happen automatically. NOT TRUE... Nest has a very complicated scheme that you must follow carefully. Otherwise they will not refund your money. . A PREVIOUS UPDATE: Before today I gave this app 5 stars for the following. This app is fabulous. Its snappy fast, it allows you to slide through video, even a whole day, very quickly and smoothly. Its simply very nicely done. You can also see all of your cameras at the same time. The app is now quite a lot faster in displaying the videos. Those two or three items were what I needed to see. This brings the NEST app back and even exceeds the quality of the retired DROPCAM app. So I would call this 100% success. Thank You to the new developers for listening to feedback. You have done a great job in bringing this application to a new excellent position. I will definitely recommend Nest equipment to everyone. This is great gear!

Great camera! Good night vision. There’s about a minute delay in motion detecting notification. Picture quality was great when I only had one camera, now I have 4. It seems that decreased the quality for some reason on my phone. Overall very happy with it.

I like this camera. The picture is very clear. There is about a 5-10 second delay on a 25+gb upload wifi connection. I set up zones to which record up to 12 seconds from the start of the event. One thing I notice is that the actually camera gets hot very fast. I had no problems with set up. I entered the code and the video popped up on my app within 1 minute. It was a easy setup for me. But Im happy with the quality.