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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2018
Overall this is a good camera and we are happy with our purchase.
It was a simple set up, plug in, scan barcode on your phone to link the camera to your Nest account, and then connect to WiFi and it was up and working.
They let you try Nest Aware for 30 days for free, after that is is $10/month for 10 days of footage or $30/month for 30 days of footage. With Nest Aware you get notifications on your phone is motion,sound, or a person is spotted, and obviously the footage for whatever you pay for. In my opinion you don’t need anything more than the $10 option, I see many complain about the price but if you’re going to compare it to other security systems and pricing it is a steal and well worth it.
We have this Camera set up in our living room and it gets a good picture of our mud room that connects to the garage, kitchen, dining room, and living room. It can easily detect when someone is coming and going through the door to the garage(which is the furthest place from the camera).
The sound is pretty good on this camera, however ours is next to our TV so you cannot hear background noises as well due to the TV being so close when on. But when it is off it works great.
When watching your camera through the app it tends to freeze if you are looking at previous activity I’ve noticed, there is an option to click 15 seconds at a time and if you click that it tends to freeze up and takes a little while to get back, which is a tad annoying but not the worst thing. The app lets you turn the camera light on and off, there is a green light on the camera that lets you know if someone is watching, it goes dark to light, you also can click that feature off if you don’t want someone to know you’re looking. There is also a microphone on the app that lets you talk through the camera. This has come in handy before when I needed to get ahold of my husband who wasn’t answering his phone due to it being on silent!
Night vision is so-so in my opinion, if you have any sort of light on it tends to mess with the clarity of the picture. And by light I mean a microwave light, light above/under the cabinets or above the kitchen sink.
Overall I am very satisfied with this camera, and with Nest in general. We also have the thermostat, and I’m currently awaiting the doorbell to be released, it is nice to have everything on one app.
It was a simple set up, plug in, scan barcode on your phone to link the camera to your Nest account, and then connect to WiFi and it was up and working.
They let you try Nest Aware for 30 days for free, after that is is $10/month for 10 days of footage or $30/month for 30 days of footage. With Nest Aware you get notifications on your phone is motion,sound, or a person is spotted, and obviously the footage for whatever you pay for. In my opinion you don’t need anything more than the $10 option, I see many complain about the price but if you’re going to compare it to other security systems and pricing it is a steal and well worth it.
We have this Camera set up in our living room and it gets a good picture of our mud room that connects to the garage, kitchen, dining room, and living room. It can easily detect when someone is coming and going through the door to the garage(which is the furthest place from the camera).
The sound is pretty good on this camera, however ours is next to our TV so you cannot hear background noises as well due to the TV being so close when on. But when it is off it works great.
When watching your camera through the app it tends to freeze if you are looking at previous activity I’ve noticed, there is an option to click 15 seconds at a time and if you click that it tends to freeze up and takes a little while to get back, which is a tad annoying but not the worst thing. The app lets you turn the camera light on and off, there is a green light on the camera that lets you know if someone is watching, it goes dark to light, you also can click that feature off if you don’t want someone to know you’re looking. There is also a microphone on the app that lets you talk through the camera. This has come in handy before when I needed to get ahold of my husband who wasn’t answering his phone due to it being on silent!
Night vision is so-so in my opinion, if you have any sort of light on it tends to mess with the clarity of the picture. And by light I mean a microwave light, light above/under the cabinets or above the kitchen sink.
Overall I am very satisfied with this camera, and with Nest in general. We also have the thermostat, and I’m currently awaiting the doorbell to be released, it is nice to have everything on one app.
