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

This is a return item for us. Its a fantastic product that works extremely well, but the subscription service behind these cameras is unscalable and expensive at $10/mo per device with no quantity discount. I bought two of them, and found myself facing the daunting prospect of paying $240/yr on subscription service alone just to use them. Without the subscription service, most of the useful features are *disabled*. Until the service is brought in line with competitors pricing (like Ring, which is $99/yr for unlimited devices), Nest cameras should be avoided. Not sure what theyre trying to pull here, but as a longtime Nest customer this is my first return and I am profoundly disappointed in the company for the awful and greedy contract. We bought them sight unseen just on the basis of the house full of Nest equipment we have had nothing bus positive experiences with, but the service makes these untenable. We will be seriously rethinking whether or not to continue buying Nest products after this. Bad show Nest. Get it together. As a longtime customer, I am returning these, and will be seriously rethinking whether or not to continue to support you as a business after this poor performance. Assuming these last three years (which I would consider bare minimum), these will cost *twice as much to run as they do to purchase* even in that *short* timeframe. Thats outrageous. Especially when you consider the total lack of quantity discount for multiple devices. Honestly, I was outraged, and felt completely ripped off. I strong encourage others to avoid then. In all other ways, these seem to be excellent product, so if Nest actually started selling these with a competitive contract and brought their pricing inline with any of the other top-end providers in the market, I would consider changing this review.

Incredible camera. Excellent video quality. Unfortunately caught a family member stealing from me the very next day I installed the camera. At least the camera has done its job. Its also cool to see my sleep pattern. Anyway, easy to install and no problems yet to report. As others have stated, a subscription is required to have video recorded. It does come with a 30 day subscription.

I researched home security camera systems for weeks before choosing Nestcam. I bought the 3 camera system. It takes about forty-five minutes to an hour to have a fully operational home security. The price, while not cheap, provides excellent per-dollar value. I think that Nestcam is the probably the best and simplest home security camera system on the market. Set up is relatively easy. Just down load the Nestcam to your iPhone (or other cell phone), open a Nestcam account, and enter the camera serial number and entry key #. If you encounter problems or just need help, customer service is excellent (or at least it was the 2 times I called in setting up my camera). They are knowledgable, friendly, patient, and speak clear concise English. Video image is very good. The magnetic mounting plate is easy to use. If Nestcam maintains this level of product quality, keeps installation and setup this simple, and continues to provide this level of customer service they will capture a major share of the market.

EDIT: After many attempts and logging out of everything, clearing caches, etc., I finally got the alerts to stop. Bumping up to 3 stars because everything Nest is still very buggy and the apps fall far short of what the Dropcam apps could do (Dropcam was a 5 star product to me). -------- First of all, the new scan-the-barcode simple setup doesnt work at all. It just errors every time, so you have to go plug it into your computer to set up. This is the least of the problems... The worst thing with the Nest Cam is there is no possible way to turn off motion notifications, even when in home mode. There is a notification section in the cameras settings with a checkbox for sound notifications and another checkbox for motion notifications. I have unchecked the motion notification checkbox at least 100x in the iOS app, the Android app, and the web interface. No matter how many times I uncheck it, the checkmark is there the next time I go into the settings. This bug has raised the annoyance factor of this camera to a 10 and Im done with it. I hear endless motion notifications all day as Im working which is driving me insane, because it makes the exact same notification sound as incoming email. By the way, the older Dropcams work fine in the Nest app without this problem.

I read so many great reviews about this camera on the Amazon site. I read mixed reviews on other sites. I should have stuck with my original intuition and gone with a different camera. The picture quality is so so. I figured 1080p would be clear enough to identify an intruder. Not so. The picture is slightly tiled. The camera turns on for no reason. I was getting mad at my wife because I thought she was spying on me. She was not, the camera would start whenever it wanted to. I can live with that. I cant live with it turning it self off when we are gone. It has happened every time. I need the camera to stay on when we are gone. It does not. I do like the fact that I can review footage from the cloud. It does let me know when something is not right. It also is only 50 percent on that. Quite often it says it detected someone, when no one was there. I do feel better having a camera, but not this one. I can not feel my family and house is safe when the camera turns off for no reason.

Bought these to keep an eye on my vacation home. So impressed! Right out of the gate I got an alert that the backyard camera picked up someone in the backyard. I looked at the footage via the app on my phone then on my computer to verify that there was indeed a person in my backyard! I called the police immediately and they went over to do a walk around. They also asked if I could email them the clip that showed the person. It was very easy to grab the clip and email to the officer. Turns out it was a land surveyor and all was well...but perhaps the most impressive feedback was from the police department. The officer wrote me back and was totally impressed with the quality of the clip I sent him. Good job Nest! Thank you for making it so easy to keep an eye on things 250 miles away!

We have had this camera for a year now and it is terrible. When I try to access the video feed from my phone (iPhone XS Max), I get a spinning wheel regularly. It takes about 1-2 minutes from the time I launch the app until I am able to see the feed. This is on Wifi with a stable connection. My wife tries it on her phone and gets the same thing. I go to their website and get the same thing. I know what they say on their website is that its caused by slow network connection. That may be true, but it is not on my side. One other issue I have with the camera is the video quality. Its simply terrible. The video looks nothing like 1080p. It doesnt even look 720p. Trying to save a video clip is incredibly hard to do. The cropping is impossible, and it takes for ever if you actually can get what you need. We bought a 25$ Wyze cam from Amazon and it absolutely blows this camera away. There is no way I would ever buy this camera again and would not suggest it at all.

This is a good general purpose WiFi camera. With a purchase you get a 30 trial to Google storage I found purchasing the Google subscription is worth the money to me, even more valuable as you add more cameras at no additional cost. The camera has usable quality day and night video modes. Remote viewing is easy with the free app, and supports video digital zoom two way audio. The camera does not support pan or tilt. This is a sound quality camera.

Mostly satisfied with this. The zoom is only so so, but otherwise picture and sensitivity to motion and sound are good.

Bought this mainly to watch my house and dog so far so good, never had any issues with it going out and even if you dont subscribe to nest alert it still saves stills for you to go back some and see what happened. Only thing is with the updates, before I was getting too many motion alerts now it seems I barely get any. Im sure this will be improved