“Can the floodlight be mounted horizontally under an eave where the exiting floodlight box is?”
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Nest Support could not answer this question through my chat. I think the designers of camera floodlights have never stepped outside the lab to realize floodlights are commonly installed under the eave to shine light on two sides of a house around corners, versus a wall mount that can only shine on one side. No camera flood light on the market today can be mounted properly under an eave because the sensor will not swivel far enough to have the correct line of sight at this angle. Many regular motion lights cannot even achieve this and they've been around for years. Try explaining this to a 16 year old on Nest Support that has never installed a light fixture.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I just received mine and all my floodlights are installed under the eave! It is weird because, I thought all existing floodlights are installed under an eave, and I would think Google would promote this in the video. Anyway, yes, even though it is primarily designed to install horizontally, it does install just fine vertically, however, the video will be upside down lol. But, fortunately, I found a camera setting in the Home app to flip the image 180 degrees so it looks fine. I'm still figuring it out, but so far it works fine. I can't figure out how to manually turn on the floodlights in the day in order to test.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I don't understand just HOW Nest failed to see this problem, do you know how many times a floodlight will be mounted on a vertical surface....almost NONE...there is a REASON it's mounted under the eaves, at the corner, it is so that it lights both sides of the corner, i don't know how a Google Nest company engineers and designers at a hundreds of a billion dollars corporation have failed to see this, do you guys ever test anything outside of your little lab? ever step outside in the REAL world and actually test things???? Ever worked with electricians and builders and see how things work before designing something??? MAKE THIS MOUNT UPSIDE DOWN OR THIS IS THE WORST FLOOD LIGHT DESIGN OVERSIGHT
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I would assume it might work? 1.) The sensor itself is stationary with no way to adjust it. There hasn't been anyone to test on how the sensor would work if it was tilted down from an eave. 2.) For an example, when you set up a Nest Camera (Battery), the camera can only go in one orientation or the camera feed will be upside down. You can counter this by going into your camera settings and enabling "Flip 180 degrees" option. This is also essentially a Flood Light and Separate Nest Camera (Battery) in two pieces. Judging by how long the charging cable is to the Floodlight, you won't be able to flip the camera even though you could theoretically install it underneath an eave so you would HAVE to flip the camera in the google app. 3.) From what other people have said, the Floodlight sticks out a decent amount. This would probably look pretty weird if you mounted it to an eave. So unless Google has some weird plan up their sleeve to combat this, your best bet is a Ring, or to just install a regular floodlight and buying a Nest Camera (Battery) and hooking it up to an outlet. You could also try it out yourself, but not many people have gotten their Floodlights because even though stock has come and gone, Google for whatever reason is being very discrete about a release date.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.there is this aftermarket eave mounting bracket avaliable online on Amazon, just search "Nest Floodlight Eave Mount, White (MF001)"
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Nest Cam with floodlight is designed to be installed on vertical surfaces like a wall. We don’t recommend it to be installed on horizontal surfaces because the downward facing angle would reduce the floodlight’s functionality by limiting the field of view of the PIR motion sensor (which triggers the floodlight when motion is detected). We’re taking your feedback and we’ll share it with the right team to work on improving our products and services.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Their is an afrer market adapter for this runs around 26 bucks i looked at specs when i bought them and found this out..so i ordered them before i had them installed look for google nest floodlight eave mount adapter on amazon..hope this helps
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.yes there is a you tube video showing this very solution with links to home depot or lowes where you can find parts to adapt the camera to this very situation.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It can and the floodlights can be manipulated but the problem is the camera. Neat changed the camera view corridor so it can only view a ridiculously limited field of view. The old cameras-which I have- work great on a corner and pick up enough if both sides of view. This camera is just over a 90 degree angle of view which is worthless…even on the side of a house.
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