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 am so happy I bought these. I have PTSD and got kind of thrusted into living on my own and had to find a place quick - said place ended up being sketchy as heck and I have been followed and chased by a drugged out lady who proceeded to try to break in. The door isnt exactly the best, but with these cameras set up you could see someone was trying to break in and I was in distress if there was proof needed. I can watch my dog who is going blind while Im at work so I can make sure she is safe and okay! I cannot stress enough how much safer these cameras make me feel; I have four and bought the ring version for later. The only complaint I have is the sound quality isnt great.

I have had the camera a week now. The camera is great. Someone else besides Nest Labs must write a better app to run this superior hardware which is completely abused by its soft failings. Consider this: 1. We dont NEED a proprietary cloud. Most of us have oodles of space we never even use. 2. The app must give us absolute power over our videos. Must be able to delete and manage. 3. The notifications are currently awful. I get a quiet text saying motion has been detected. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I want it to scream at me that my protected space has someone in it! 4. Even after being notified of movement, I go to the application and there is absolutely no message history of movement under messages. I would pay as much for the app that gives me what I really need, as I did for the camera. 5. Improve text messaging alerts and history. Video is only necessary for prosecution for those of us using it for guarding our stuff. 6. WAKE UP Nest Labs. Deliver a product we can brag about! Consumers are sick of security companies killing us by a thousand cuts of small monthly fees for services we want to manage for ourselves.

I purchased the Nest camera to monitor my winter home in Florida while I was home in New England. Camera worked great until there was a power outage and it wouldn’t come back on line. Every other device in my home including the Honeywell thermostat, Amazon FireSticks, Amazon Echo, and my Schlage electronic lock all reconnected to the WiFi network when the power came back on….the Nest camera was the only device that did not!! Since there is no way to reset it remotely, I was basically screwed. Would absolutely not buy this camera if you are using to monitor your home while on vacation or using it to monitor a second home….basically useless after a power outage!!

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

I have a vacation home in another country have the NEST system that allows you to monitor everything that happens, even that far. The cameras Nest allow exactly do that. I have two cameras, two thermostats and 3 smoke protect, which were very simple to install, the project was very well developed providing all support and information to put the system into operation. Another highlight is the possibility of recording allowing cameras have full information about the movements and sounds around the house

Worked great except for its talk back option. When you are talking on it, it mutes the sound you hear and you cannot carry a conversation on it like you can on a walkie talkie or phone. Why it mutes the sound from you hearing what people are speaking back to you? I dont know, but this was a deal breaker for me because I have 2 3 and 5 year olds. When Im in the garage working out, and I see them doing something and I need to say something to them, they can only hear me but I cant hear what my kids area saying back. Plus, the volume of my voice is very low. I should of bought the outdoor cam because it had bigger speakers, plus being made for outdoors makes it more durable. THE MAJOR DEAL BREAKER is the forced monthly subscription price. If you opt out, you only get 3 hours of rollback time, and it continuously deletes everything every minute it passes 3 hours. I mean, who buys an expensive piece of equipment for 3hours of playback? I would of kept it if it allowed 1 week of free cloud memory playback access, but combination of bad talk-back and subscription makes this a dud. I was planning on buying 5 more Nest Cameras too total close to $1000. I decided to steer away from NEST CAM. I am looking into Wyze Cam. 14 days free cloud memory, no monthly subscriptions and it has all the features this has. Right now it is flying off the shelves for $25 bucks a cam. I bought 6 already on back order for the price of one Nest Cam. Ridiculous right????

As far as picture and video go this is great but if your buying it for the 2 way communications….. don’t… the speaker works but if the house isn’t entirely silent you can’t hear it. I bought it so I could keep an eye on my dogs. One day the pup decided to tear into the sofa cushions, I am sitting in my office yelling at the pup, he heard the bing when I turned on the mic from my phone but not me yelling as he continued to pull foam out of the seat cushions. When I got home I tested it with my husband listening to see if maybe the pup was just ignoring me yelling at him…. Nope husband heard the bing when I turned on the mic but that was all. Don’t buy if your needing the 2way communications

I have 2 Nest Indoor and 1 Nest Outdoor camera and they generally work well with only periodic drops on WiFi or the camera just stopping perhaps for over heating. My main reason for a 2 star rating is their subscription services which while expensive are also run on a really bad web site. Ive tried to cancel my subscriptions to change from a 30 day period to 10 and the site gets to the last step with an error message saying their was an error try again. This has gone on for days and looking on line suggests this is an ongoing problem. Ive been waiting 3 hours now in a chat queue of 66 to see if they can do this for me directly. Just so frustrating that google and nest have such a horrible system, seems they could afford to buy someone who knows how to make this site work since they are charging such a premium price for Nest Aware. If you are looking for home security take a look at Ring.com

In terms of security, this camera should be the first thing you get after upgraded door locks. Not only is the user interface of the app super simple, but given the suite of Nest product, you can achieve a really nice level of home automation with these cameras. Want to set motion sensors to detect motion when you are away, Nest Cam can do that! Want to record events and receive notifications? Nest Cam can do that too. The video quality is superb and I have no doubt that Id be able to aid the police in tracking down someone who broke into my apartment.

Ive only had it for about 10 days but so far I love it. Im coming from Samsung smartcams and this is products quality is far beyond Samsungs. The software is great and integrates perfectly with my best thermostat. The reason I went with the nest cam is because I was unable to view my security cameras from my Mac (on el capitan). I tried contacting Samsung customer service and they were zero help. And when the software did work it was very inconsistent. The cloud storage on the nest cam hasnt hiccuped yet.