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

The cameras are perfect for our needs.We traveled thousands of miles from home & not once did we have a connection problem The picture of both night & day viewing are very clear. They can be set as sensitive as you like. notifications can be set to detect a person & or to detect any other movement or sound. We have not tried without NEST home Away. I would have given the 5 stars if we had not seen these cameras on sale at LOWES for $149.00 4 days after we installed ours.

I have several Foscam and I wanted something for the baby room that would allow to watch my babysitted kid while I am out easily on my phone. Well... I am very impressed by the image quality and like any other Nest products, the setup is the a breeze and it just works. Worth every penny. My old Foscams are in the closet as I bought 3 additional of those Nest Cams afterward. Comes with 30 days of Nest Sense online cloud monitoring and recording, I am registering one of the 4 cam to the 10-day service.

Love my nest cam for the entry of my condo so I can monitor if someone enters with out permission. Really a good value and works well with the app

I think this is a great camera and a good value for the money. It is a little on the pricy side but is more than just a standing camera. You can zoom and enhance. It is mountable or will sit on a surface. My only wish, that this camera does not do is swivel. You only see a wide view within its lense constraint. Which is pretty wide. And Neat has just come up with a timeline so you can see specific spots where the camera has detected activity.

I bought this to watch my puppy while I was at work. It lets me know when she moves or starts making a lot of noise. It was exactly what I wanted. I am able to leave her at home a little longer when I knew she is not upset or come home quicker if she seemed to need to go outside. If she gets sick I can still go to work and keep an eye on her. I did not buy the nest Aware once my 30 day trail was up because it did not really change. The main feature I miss is the play back of the whole day. Without Nest Aware It will only highlight the times of movement or noise disturbance.

This is the real deal. Made of steel, not cheap plastic.

Im not sure why the nest cam is so highly lauded by tech websites. We bought the camera since we also have the nest thermostat and wanted to keep everything on the same ecosystem. In hindsight, we should have looked elsewhere. Here are my two biggest complaints: 1. With no built in storage, the camera is essentially worthless unless you also subscribe to the nest aware plan. Im sure there is value there for some, but its more than I want to commit just to spy on my dog. If I were buying again, Id look for something with enough built in storage to cover 24 hours. 2. The app (and tech support) has been terrible. Specifically, the home/away assist. We set the camera up to turn on when we leave and turn off when we get home, but it doesnt register when we leave so I end up having to turn it on manually. Ive spent hours on chat support with nest and all they do is walk you through the settings and make you keep sending screen shots of every step. After an hour of that last time, they confirmed that all the settings were correct and their advice was to un-install and re-install everything.

This camera has been wonderful to keep an eye on my newborn when I returned to work. Our many was made aware that we have this camera in our living room / kitchen area. It has been very helpful to assist our nanny if she needs to show or talk to me about the baby. We have daily conversations through the cameras talk feature. My husband and I can monitor or home during our hectic work weeks and keep an eye on our children. My 7 year old loves to show us his work or read to us on our drive home.

Edit: 02/14/2016. The problems below still persist after the recent iOS Nest app update. It has been months since I bought them in November 2016 and they still have not resolved this basic issue. I very much regret buying four of these expensive cameras. Edit: 04/02/2017. Chatted with Nest support about my snapshot history for the last three hours being totally blank (I don’t have a NestAware subscription and am limited to these snapshots). This has happened quite often since getting these cameras. I know there should be activity there. They tried some things like remotely resetting my camera which didn’t make much difference. During the chat with them, my history will suddenly be viewable on the iPhone. Then a few minutes later, it will be totally blank. This is true for multiple cameras. This gives me zero confidence that I’ll be able to view my history in a timely fashion in the event of an emergency. Also doesnt encourage me to give them any money for NestAware when Im so often disappointed with how things work as it is. Edit: 04/14/2017. Tried getting notifications working again as I periodically do since my original bad support experience in late 2016. The menus have changed slightly in the iPhone app and on the website which makes me think they attempted to improve notifications. Long story short...they still dont work. After walking around in front of the camera on and off for a half hour (alerts set to only when away and I currently have it set to Away), I finally got one single email to come in SEVEN MINUTES AFTER THE MOTION ACTIVITY EVENT. This is with me on wifi and monitoring my (push) email, so the problem definitely is with Nest and not my email. Ugh. Sigh sigh sigh. Please see my original review below for even more reasons not to invest in Nest. Will attempt to get notifications working again in a couple months. Not at all reliable now. Original Review: 2+ weeks of dealing with Nest senior level support has left me beyond frustrated. Im getting notifications for activity when Im home despite only when no ones home being enabled in settings. After jumping through a ton of troubleshooting hoops and ultimately creating an entire new Nest account, the problem persists. Got a final phone call today after the engineers reviewed my case and senior support passed along the word from up top that the engineers say I need to have location services on for my issue to be resolved (which does not have anything to do with my problem as Ive described it countless times). After explaining (for the 10th time) that I have the problem with location services both on and off, he proceeded to tell me that its a known issue and theyre working on it. I bought FOUR of these expensive cameras for several reason but notification support was a huge one, and now Ive been asked to keep an eye on updates for an indeterminate time to see if it is fixed. (Also found out after buying them that notifications only show up ONCE every 30-minute interval for each camera, which is totally unacceptable.) Except for this frustrating experience, the iOS and web apps are pretty good. But that does not ameliorate all of the other issues here and I refuse to rate the app more than one star until this is fixed. Will update this review if something changes. PS: What youre viewing live on your cameras is sometimes 5-10 seconds delayed. I have fast internet with excellent wifi. This is ridiculous. Does not make me want to pay the monthly subscription for Nest Aware when they cant even get free functionality performing well. PPS: My cameras go offline sporadically quite often. Theres nothing else I can do to optimize their location or wifi settings. All cameras are within 10-15 feet of an 802.11ac wifi router. The one that goes offline most is actually about 5 feet from the router. I wish I had the option to plug in a cat6 ethernet cable, but its wifi only. Im at a loss with this product.

Good: + Wide viewing angle + Relatively fast connecting to video feed (takes about 6-12 seconds with a good connection) + Sturdy metal base Bad: - No video playback without additional monthly fees - No local data storage - Power light can be dimmed, but can not be turned off - Motion detection only captures single photo for review, not video clip (unless paying additional monthly fees) so often difficult to discern what moved - Motion detection extremely haphazard - sometimes a passing car would trigger it, sometimes a passing car would not trigger it - Significantly more expensive, even without monthly subscription, than similar resolution cameras with more features right out of the box at 1/4th the price.