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 bought this as a baby monitor after reading many reviews. The camera works great as a security camera (which is its main purpose) however its pretty useless as a baby monitor. the app isnt fast enough to react to a crying baby. the mic isnt sensitve enought to detect baby noises (crying is fine, but you dont really need a monitor to detect crying). the camera is especially uselss during the night, since you want to have the monitor on all the time and wake you up in case the baby awakes. the phone app closes after innactivity which makes it a useless baby monitor, you would need to sleep with you computer on next to you... and thats just not practical. In general, its a GREAT security camera, the resolution is great, captures are great, notifications are amazing. However, if you are looking for a baby monitor, look elsewhere !

We bought this originally to use as a baby monitor, but found that the app freezes frequently and their live stream frequently needs to be refreshed because it can be off as much as 10-15 seconds, which is more than enough time for a 6 month old to crawl himself off the bed. Nest also has awful support. We had purchased dropcams and a week later the nest cams came out. We returned the drop cams to get the newer tech, but we had already paid for their cloud storage. We were supposed to be refunded a pro-rated rate, but never were. Then, only one camera was being recorded on the could, and I was told that I would need to pay again to have the other camera be recorded on the cloud, but billing would take care of it and refund me the money. A month later, I still havent been refunded after numerous calls and emails. Horrible customer service. I would not recommend these for a friend. 2 stars, not 1, only because they were easy to set up and are comparatively good looking.

If you want true video surveillance (Not motion based snapshots) nest is the best option. It isnt the cheapest but the app and cloud system just plain work.

Originally bought to use as a baby camera, but we thought it would be funny to see what the dogs did while we were gone so we set it up in the kitchen/living room area. We actually loved it so much we now have it mounted in one of the corners of the living room so that it covers all the back entrances to the house. Love the added sense of security it gives us. Has notifications that can be turned off/on for sound and activity. Picture is clear and video has been reliable 100% of the time so far. AND we have managed to grab hilarious videos of the dogs while we are away.

This is my favorite purchase so the year so far - easy set up and I didnt realize the live feed has audio! Ordered the 30-day storage plan and now my children and I get to monitor whats going on at our vacation home from the app on our phones. I just ordered 4 outdoor nest cams they are so impressive and they send alerts to my phone when they see movement in the home and o one is supposed to be there. Wow!

Ive tried 3 different types of cameras for seeing how my kiddos are doing at home with our caregivers through out the day. These are BY FAR the easiest to set up. It literally took me 2 minutes per camera. They just work. I have zero complaints. If youre not at all technical, these cameras are the answer. I tried DLINK-- they took hours to set up (despite the quick setup guide) and always had issues. I also tried drop cams which required a very technical friend to set up for me. Ill probably be getting a few more of these-- they are awesome.

I was a little nervous buying these as I wasnt sure I truly needed them. However, Ive been thrilled. The picture is great, the new app enhancements theyve released recently really improve the experience and I have so much peace of mind being away from home for long stretches of time. Especially with 4 pets, its great to be able to check on them and make sure theyre okay. Im currently trying to convince my dad to buy some of his own.

I bought the camera even with all the negative reviews. I am completely satisfied with this purchase. One thing I notices that the 2 way audio wasnt loud enough on my phone or pc. I looked into it further and discovered the mic sensitivity needed to be increased. Now I can communicate and hear. The setup was easy. Took more than a minute as I have a really long passcode for my wifi with upper case and lowercase mixed in. The subscription service is not a big deal to me as a security company charges more than that for their video service. With Nest aware its great because you can create zones that will trigger an alert. I didnt want all movement in my family room to trigger it so I created zones at the windows and doors. Im buying another. Wish they made an outdoor version that had one way audio. Dont really need the 2 way for outdoor.

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 camera is worth every penny our home is monitored and alerts my husband or myself at work through his Samsung frontier gear 3 phone is someone is walked in the house we can monitor our home talk to the kids or dog lol and keep and eye on our home best money spent! Picture quality is excellent!