Nest Cam Indoor security camera, Works with Amazon Alexa
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Product Specifications
- 24⁄7 live video: 130° wide-angle view and all-glass lens let you look after home in 1080p HD, day and night.
- Alerts and snapshots: When Nest Cam detects activity, it can send a phone alert or email with a photo of the event.
- Quick, easy setup: Plug in Nest Cam and download the Nest app to get started. No hub needed.
- Talk & Listen: Nest Cam has a built-in speaker and microphone, and lets you talk and listen through the app. Speak up to get someone’s attention, or tell the dog to get off the couch.
- Night vision done right: See the whole room at night — not just a limited spotlight view.
- Comes with a free Nest Aware trial: Get intelligent alerts and continuous cloud recording. Create Activity Zones for more precise alerts. Make and share custom clips or timelapses. And more.
Monthly subscription required for access to full suite of features
Product Description
Configuration:1 Camera Nest Cam helps you look after your home 24⁄7. Get alerts if something happens. And watch the action live in super clear 1080p HD.
Product Reviews
Bugs and lousy support - Not recommended
I purchased the Nest Cam Security Camera 3-pack. It arrived on time and was beautifully packaged. Set-up took a little time, but was made easier thanks to smart use of bar codes on the back of each camera, in conjunction with the Nest App. So far so good. For most home users, the cameras are useless without a cloud storage subscription. With a subscription, video is stored in the cloud, and you can review historic activity at any point in your history (10 or 30 days) or upon events for example if motion or sound was detected. Without a subscription, you can only watch the video live. Not very useful for security purposes. Nest will not allow you to use third party cloud storage providers so you’re locked into using their facility, which is priced much higher than regular cloud storage.So I purchased a 3-pack of licenses to go with the three cameras. Unfortunately, Nest only associated two of the licenses with two of my cameras, leaving the third camera without a storage ability, despite paying for it. The third license, according to my account, will be applied to my next camera purchase, essentially rendering one of my three cameras useless. I have no plans to buy another camera. Clearly a bug in their system caused one of my cameras and licenses not to be matched. I contacted Nest support and they would not associate the unmatched license and camera. They told me they may re-review the case once the camera storage trial storage period expired. Despite buying three cameras and three licenses, I have one camera which i useless one license which Nest are trying to get me to buy a fourth camera to use it. Worse, for a business in the security business, they will only review this case once my home is unsecure.Up to this point I’ve loved Nest’s smoke alarm product. I have five of them and they have served me well. But I’d warn people away from the nest security cams until Nest have fixed the bugs and improved the level of their support, which is close to non-existant. I’m very disappointed with this product.READ MORE
Banner Ad? Are you kidding me?
I already owned 2 Nest thermostats and 4 Nest protects when I purchased this Nest cam. The camera itself seems to be very good quality. The set up was a breeze and camera was operational in just a couple of minutes. The reason for the 1 star review is that if you don’t subscribe to their Nest aware that starts at $10 a month you will have to stare at a banner ad on all of your devices that you have the Nest app installed on nagging you to subscribe to it. I spent 30 minutes on the phone with Nest support this morning and was even transferred to a senior level tech who told me the only way to get rid of the banner ad was to subscribe to Nest aware. Guess what? I figured out another way to get rid of the banner ad. I am boxing it up and returning it! Nest should be ashamed to subject customers who have spent good money on their products to this. I am still within my 30 days on my other items I may just box it all up and go with a different brand.
Poopatrator is Caught in the Act!
We have two dogs. Somebody pooped in the family room. Nest Cam ratted you out, Bailey. While Tabasco slept innocently on the couch, Nest Cam caught you pooping by her bed. Trying to blame it on Tabasco was not cool, Bailey; you’re guilty as charged!
Does what it says, but pricy and nothing to write home about.
–UPDATE–I wanted to take a moment and make an update to my original review I gave this product. The original review was made prior to the new app update, which really does an amazing job in increasing overall functionality of the camera as a whole. As you can see in my original review of the product, I was not happy with using the camera as a baby monitor. The previous version didn’t make it conducive to having it in a baby’s room due to limited notifications. That has sense been changed. Now, the camera will give us alerts whenever our child moves around. Very nice. I’d also mention that I really appreciate that Nest took the time to update a previous gen product. All-to-often companies will leave an older product to focus on making it appealing to purchase new products. Not so with nest and I’m glad I made the decision to go with them.While many of the issues I had with the camera have been fixed, the grainy picture is still an issue. Perhaps I need a degree in network engineering to really get the best picture. It’s good, but it just doesn’t have a crisp clear picture. But, for what it is, it’s more than enough.I can’t say enough good things about the new app. The feature to scrub through a timeline to quickly see activities is perfect. There’s no load time / buffering when going back, I don’t know how the engineers at Nest were able to do this, but their video compression algorithm is really top notch. Maybe they’re using the middle out compression. Regardless…a tip of the hat to them.I’m planning on buying the new outdoor camera soon and possibly another indoor camera. I’ve also updated my previous review from a 4 star to a 5 star. Well worth the investment. By updating the app they have given new life to this product!–ORIGINAL REVIEW–While the nest cam is “cool” and works as it should, I simply can’t give it 5 stars.We invested entirely into the nest ecosystem. We purchased 2 thermostats, the smoke alarms and the nest cam.Like other nest products it’s a design gem! Small, attractive and website and app are very well designed and work great! It’s ease of use and functionality are the few shining stars in this product. Through the app, setup was done very quickly, and it starts working fast as well.The picture quality is ok, not amazing by any means (not sure how they call it 1080). It is somewhat grainy, the night vision works great, but the overall picture is just grainy. Also, you can’t really keep it in 1080 or it’ll freeze.The “alert” system is oddly conceived. You only get alerts every 30 minutes. So, since we use the unit as a baby monitor, we have to constantly keep an eye on it. It won’t alert you again until you enter into a new 30 minute window.Remotely viewing the camera (which technically is the only way) works okay as well. Sometimes it freezes and you have to reset the app and start over. But I’ve never just not been able to join it. Although sometimes it seems like it takes a while, but I’ll chalk that up to a bad network connection.The dvr function or cloud storage is great. The monthly fee is a bummer but it’s a good service and worth it.Overall I give it 4 stars. It’s pricy for what it is, but it’s still cool.If you are looking for this as your baby monitor I suggest you keep looking, until they update the app to be a better baby monitor.Baby monitor: 3 out of 5Security camera: 5 out of 5READ MORE
Great camera with a great app
Small and unobtrusive. Fairly wide range of view. Ability to monitor remotely.
I liked it so much, I got three more
Good video quality, able to access and control anywhere, strongly recommend.I also own the Thermostat made by Nest and several Google ecosystem products.
Best camera !
Best camera I ever had! I have 6 of them and I also use it as a baby monitor.
Nest cam is much less useful without subscription.
It was easy to set up and nest customer service is outstanding. That said, if you don’t buy the monthly subscription you lose a lot of the features.
very good night vision camera
The quality of the picture is High definition , very good night vision camera.
so so will look elsewhere….
Nest Camera.I have to see initially I was pretty blown away by the audio / video quality and notifications.
Track any part of your home from anywhere anytime with ease
Very easy to set up, video quality is HD. Definitely recommended.
STRONGLY recommend!
This is by far the best camera quality, features and ease of use/setup that i have used. There are many cameras and manufactures out there and the Nest brand proceeds itself.
I love the fact that I can watch surveillance footage from …
This camera is small and very discrete. I love the fact that I can watch surveillance footage from my office or while I am out of town.
Five Stars
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