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

Ive been very impressed with the Nest Cam so far. It was just as easy to setup and configure as all my other Nest products (Protects and a thermostat). I also like the length of cord that came with it, it can actually be placed quite far from an outlet without needing to buy an additional after-market cord. The response time is great on the camera when using it from my phone or my tablet, the quality is really nice, and the night vision works beautifully, despite what Ive read in some other reviews. Overall, I have zero complaints about the product. If youd like a very easy-to-use and high-quality camera for your home, this is a great product to consider. I will purchase more of these in the future.

Well made, sturdy, EXTREMELY easy to set up, install, and connect with app. Excellent pictures. Im currently trying it out in various areas of my home to figure out the best place, and it does great day and night room views and views of the outside through the window. Has a talk feature that I wasnt expecting, though this isnt effective for communication because the audio feed to me is disrupted once I talk and it takes several seconds for it to resume. Excellent overall! I received this as a gift and have already ordered a second one.

I’m really disappointed with these cameras. By all rights they should be the best in class home security cameras. However problems I’ve encountered with their software, hardware, and customer service over the past few months stop me from recommending these to anyone. I bought an outdoor and indoor camera to create a basic home security setup, and intended to use the indoor camera as a baby monitor in a few months. I set up both cameras and was pretty amazed by the quality of video, thumbnailing, and alerting we were getting. However I had a problem with the “home” and “away” setting. I wanted alerting only to happen when the cameras were set to “away”, and to just passively record when we were home. This was very flakey, and I spent about an hour debugging it with Nest customer support. Resetting cameras would occasionally allow the alerting to function properly but it would immediately get out of sync. Look online - apparently this issue has existed for months. Now, every time we or anyone would walk near either camera I would get notifications and emails. This goes from mildly irritating to infuriating really quickly. So, I turned off alerts altogether. This removes about 30% of the value for me. My second issue is my indoor camera would drop offline for 20 minutes at a time every week or so. I reached out to nest support (again) and ended up with a support tech who argued with me for some time that a) it wasn’t a big deal and b) just move it around some more to see if it still happens. Trust me it’s a big deal if a baby monitor isn’t reliable. I got a lot of attitude from this guy. Since I had my two cameras equidistant from my wifi (with line of sight) and only one was dropping it seemed clear to me there was a problem outside of positioning. When I suggested I would just return the camera the tech said instead he’d do a camera swap. Great! Except he shipped it to the wrong address with a different name (but close enough to my name that I felt like he was griefing me). OK, I reached out a third (!!!) time to support to correct the address, this time over the phone. This tech was somewhat upset that the address was so badly botched and assured me she would get it fixed. I’m sure she tried, but it wasn’t fixed. Fortunately it went to my neighbor who I am friends with, so I at least got the camera. I sent the old camera back a few days later (weeks ago) via the included USPS sticker. Now I’ve gotten multiple harass mails saying they will need to charge me if they don’t get it. It’s been weeks in transit USPS ground…and they have the tracking number. Seriously, what the heck? I now have my new indoor camera, which has the same 20 minute dropout issues (this time in the same location my other, working fine, outdoor camera was in for months). And I can’t use alerting. And at this point I’m too weary to contact Nest again for anything. I paid for a year of service for each camera which I will just grin and bear. But the software, hardware, and customer service of this product just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Best products are awesome. I already was invested in their products when I moved. Taking off one star because you can only setup two “homes” within the Neat app to monitor. It’s inconvenient because I want to monitor 3 different locations and have unique users monitoring each location. I hope they fix this software limitation soon.

I have a total of five Nest Cams and Outdoor Nest Cams at two different homes. The video quality is the best Ive seen. The microphone is very sensitive, and its surprising how often it helps being able to hear whats going on. I primarily use my iPhone X and my iPad to receive security alerts from my Nest Cams. Im really impressed at how well the app handles multiple cameras at two different homes. Its very helpful to be able to see the video from multiple cameras at the same time.

Forgot where I bought this. Must have been on Amazon. Very happy. Sends email when ever there is motion. Even when a little bit of dust flys by it. It also will send email if off line for over 10 minutes. Dont have any complaints.

The video quality stinks, but its like a dash cam...it catches things you need and records motion and sound which I like

I have other brand cameras that sit outside (much further away from my router/modem) that are outstanding vs Google’s Nest Camera. This camera sits RIGHT near the router/modem but still has issues in playback via both Android and Apple apps. Used to use this camera with a Google Pixel phone and it was a better experience than on iPhone. iPhone app constantly signs me out and playback is nearly non existent. Looked all through forums and Google just says they have no solution for their Apple app logging you out constantly . What???? I keep it up for deterrence more than functionality. Wish I never bought this camera!

works great under the free subscription. Once the 30 days were over, I keep getting false alarms left and right. All of the features do not work when you do not subscribe. While I knew this when I bought it, I wasnt expecting all the false alarms. Nest says they use a different algorithm when you do not subscribe. That is just BS. If you dont need to know if there has been sound or motion and just use it when you want to monitor a room, then it will be great. If you want notifications when someone or something moves in front of the camera, then you have to subscribe, otherwise expect false alarms.

This would be a solid 5 if not for the bs subscription service 1 has to get to obtain dvr features. $100 a year for 10 days of recorded content or $300 a year for 30 days. Otherwise u get a free 3 hour window where ur Nest snaps a pic of whatever sets it off. No video. FT. There are other high def cams around that have dvr services that are part of the package. Nest is elegant, well designed, ez to install and hd but -- its subscription svc is a business model that benefits THEM NOT YOU. Very disappointed. Id sign up for a $20/yr for 2 days of dvr stored content but ultimately the subscriptons will cost more than the Nest itself. Like printer ink. Dont need another 1 of those blood suckers.