Customer Ratings & Reviews

The first couple days the battery died relatively quickly because i'm guessing there were updates or the camera needed to calibrate its battery. Otherwise everything works fine. These cameras actually work relatively well. The only downside to these cameras that I personally observed was that the cables for if you decide to permenantly mount them were not availble till much lattery. Now you can buy them directly from google with good amount of length. I'd definitely recommend these if you are going to hardwire them but battery power maybe a little iffy depending how much traffic there is the battery will last about a month or two. Keep in mind these cameras don't need a centralized hub and they do all the processing internally. Thus the battery life

Not happy with the product, I have other nest cameras that are connected to power that do the job better.

mmary: I’ve had this camera for a year. When it works, it’s nice, except it takes a lot of work and money to make it even moderately well. If I could do it all over, with the performance issues and this high cost of this camera I would definitely not purchase it. If you need it for security reasons, I would definitely get something else. Details: When in battery mode it will only record “events” and it is pretty bad at detecting events. My recordings usually began when the event was half over. One day I was reviewing a recorded event where someone was attempting to break into my car and the recording started about a second before they turned to walk away. I tired making all the recommended setting adjustments from creating zones and increasing the sensitivity but nothing worked. As a new solution, I decided to get the $30 cord to keep it plugged in at all times. I also had to purchase the monthly subscription (over $100/yearly) if I wanted to be able to record continuously and view it later. This worked fairly, so while the “events” still missed activity I was able to go back and review the whole thing with the paid subscription. Other issues are with the Google Home app, it’s garbage. I have to disconnect from my wifi and connect to my cellular data in order to even use it. I don’t have a problem using my wifi for anything else except the Google Home app, it loads so slowly and usually wouldn’t even show events. The delay is pretty long too, when I get a notification and when I click the app it takes so long the event is over. Overall, the camera is expensive and the base functionality isn’t great, that with the extra amount I’ve had to pay on top of the initial cost makes it really not worth it for me. If it were less expensive I would have given it 3 stars. If you’re looking for a camera for non security reasons and don’t need recordings, it works fine for that. However there are cameras available for less than $50 that would do the same thing.

Only one charging cable give me a break, also charging is variable and can't trust what it says

So, most of the hate is the migration from the nest app to the Google home app. Now, i do understand if you dont have the app its kind of annoying to switch if you already have the nest app. But, you can control your nest system from inside the Google home app now, so that beats that portion. Now for the battery life of the cameras. IT IS DEPENDENT ON WEATHER AND USAGE HOW LONG THE BATTERY LASTS. I've gotten more that 3 months on a single charge as we speak at 42% on one camera I have nearly 7 weeks lefts. Now if you use the wire instead then of course its unlimited. Camera quality is great it catches everything and its night vision is spot.

It’s a good camera with some redundancy (power and 1 hour of events if there is a loss of WiFi) built in. Great picture quality and alerts. Gets the job done. I use the battery function above a window, with little traffic and did not have to recharge for six months. I charged it in December 2021, and did not have to recharge until June 2022 and battery lasted this long during brutal winter months. I use plugged function for send and third camera in high traffic area. Too bad it’s not 4K, would have been if Nest was a stand alone company. Google needs to keep Nest the way it was, by letting products maintain the high end features, the Nest customer base became used to. Overall good camera if used the way they state to use it for especially with battery as source of power.

Maybe I am a late bloomer, or maybe I don’t want smart things in my home listening to every word spoken. Nor do I feel the need to have every appliance controlled by my phone. It is bad enough to have to rely on my phone so much for my employment, calendar, and newspaper articles. Up until now, the only smart device living in my home was my wife. We live with cameras all around us, and I must admit that for a while now I have thought about getting one for my home. The problem was that with everything else on my to do list, I really did not want to drill, snake, and run wires. So, when I heard about this battery powered camera, it got my attention. Like many products and services, it isn’t only the functionality that makes points with the consumer, it is also the presentation. This is true with restaurants and coffee shops, retail stores, automobiles, and neat consumer products that provide us with pleasure – like those headphones that sound great, but are also packaged and designed quite nicely. The Google Nest Cam is attractively packaged in a sturdy box partially within another box. The top and sides slide snugly and solidly off to reveal the package contents – not many pieces but each of them attractive. Even the screws and optional wall anchors are displayed perfectly with the Nest Cam head, magnetic plate, wall plate (that will be completely covered by the magnetic plate), charge cable, and power adapter. The Nest Cam and Magnetic Plate which will be on constant display are sleek, clean in design, functional, and very attractive – again, much like my wife. I hope the snow-white color of the camera housing stays bright white over time and does not yellow like one of those old desktop computer cases. I had a feeling I was going to like this camera. Instructions were presented in three minimalist steps each with a corresponding icon and a couple of words. However, after those simple steps was the sentence, “A Nest Pro installer can help”. Suddenly I thought it might be a tough first date. The camera can be installed on a tripod base using a “quarter/20” screw in support, on an optional base (typically for indoor applications), or as I did - using the supplied wall plate that the magnetic plate screws/turns onto for outdoor wall applications. While the camera is weather resistant, it is not weather proof, so it is best to shelter it somewhat if possible. In my case I mounted it on the wall under my front porch adjacent to my front door. I really appreciated the solid feel of the camera and powerful magnet that holds the camera to the magnetic plate. This makes it almost infinitely adjustable and easy to remove for periodic charging. Of course, it also makes it easy to remove by almost anyone – especially since it is recommended to be mounted about 6 feet off the ground. But I guess you at least may have a photographic record of the thief – at least for about 3 hours (more on that later). Don’t forget to readjust the aim each time you reconnect after charging. Once installed on the wall, the set up using Google Home was not that straight forward. Prior to this experience, I did not even know what Google Home was – and that it was already on my phone. Here the simplicity of the instructions really made the difference. While I survived 3 semesters of calculus in college, somehow, I was struggling with the Google Home interface. Finally, I uninstalled the Google Home app and reinstalled it. That helped but I suspect there are features and/or controls unknown to me due to the cumbersome interface that prevent me from knowing the full functionality of this device – or at least delay my discovery of such functionality. I was in a hurry and not in the mood for “Discovery Learning”. A clearer path via printed instructions from a link, pamphlet, or video would have been nice. I positioned the camera in such a way that I am able to see someone at my door, the sidewalk leading up to the door, as well as the driveway about 45 feet away from the front door. While the camera does not necessarily snap on from a car pulling up the driveway, it does capture a person as they approach the front door using the sidewalk. The camera will report whether movement is caused by a person, animal, or vehicle. And from what I have seen it does so quite well. The camera will store the last 3 hours of any video taken – more if you are willing to pay a Nest subscription price. Worth it if the camera is recording any illegal overnight activity and you are asleep and not responding to your phone’s notification. Having only three hours of stored video is a tease of what is possible, and I don’t appreciate being held hostage to a monthly subscription fee to get more storage. Come on Google, you can afford to give the consumer at least 24 hours of stored video clips for free. Speaker and microphone function work well when you address people at your door. While video resolution could be improved over the 1080p HD quality, it most likely is a tradeoff for the extended battery life. And it really is pretty good quality overall. Bottom line – I am happy with my choice, although I did have to work for that happiness.

Unfortunately the new Nest products are following suit with Googles new product practices, where the new stuff has less features than the old stuff (e.g. the Google Music transition to Youtube Music). There are a few good things with the new devices, but I feel the bad outweighs the good. The Good: - Good image quality - Improved person detection (notifications come quicker) - Animal detection - Wireless/wired option The Bad: - Doesn't work with existing Nest app, must use the newer, less featured Google Home app. You will have to have 2 apps now for all your devices (Yes Google, I know all devices show up in the Home app, but it is so lacking in functionality and features from what the old Nest app has. - You can only download the event clips. If the event is only shows as 20 seconds, but you need to expand to a min before and after, you can't. You can't even make and download a clip where there are no events. Huge fail here. - No web browser app. You can't view video feed through a web browser, only the Google Home app. Everything has to be set up and controlled through the mobile app. Including zones, which is a pain. - If you were a software developer and are currently getting push/sub events for your current Nest devices, you will be disappointed to know that you can't get events from the new Nest products. It appears that this is the plan going forward with Google, which is a huge fail here for devs since you can't make 3rd party apps that integrate with new Nest products. Another big fail here. The next 2 are more nit picks, but still annoying. - Power Cable curves out toward the front of the camera, which is backwards from what you would want when plugging your camera in permanently. It makes for awkward mounting having the cable come out away from the camera instead of directed to the back of the camera towards the wall. Huge design fail here. - Wall mount doesn't feel as high as quality as the old versions. - Does not come with an outside power cord, must be purchased separately. Until google fixes some of these things, I would not recommend these yet. They aren't fully baked yet.

In the box is the Google Nest Camera, a charging cord with charging plug, mounting screws, mounting anchors and quick start guide to include instruction manual. Right away, I fell in love with the way the items were packaged in the box. The screws and anchors were embedded into the packaging, no additional plastic to throw away. Out of the box, per the quick start manual, you should charge the camera. In about an hours time, the light will turn green and the camera will be ready to install. I decided to install the camera in the carport so that I would be notified if someone entered the driveway and this camera works like a charm! Let me back up to the Google Home App. I currently use my Google Home App for multiple things on multiple devices, so setting up the camera was a breeze. For someone new, the quick start guide is great assistant. Once everything was set up, the camera worked perfectly. Now when someone enters my driveway, the motion sensor notifies me by phone or watch, whatever you have Google Home notifications set to. When you open the notification, the app takes you right to the camera and it records the activity. Another great feature is being able to talk to the person on the other end of the camera. In the app, there is a mic button and you just press and hold and talk. Once the camera records, there will be 72 hours of recorded activity for you to go back and view at anytime. After 72 hours, the footage auto deletes since all of the storage is on the camera itself. The battery life so far is amazing. When you open the camera section of the Google app, the screen shows you how much battery life you have left and currently mine is saying 4 months. Then when you press LIVE, it shows me that I have 97% battery after 3+ days. There is a IR for night time and it works pretty good. Make sure there are no trees or bushes in the way so that you can get a pretty good picture at night. The only drawback for the camera so far is the mounting base. It is great for indoors but the outdoor mount is not included, you must purchase separately. When you look at the camera, it does look like it is all one piece but if someone wanted to take the camera, they could easily steal it with the magnetic included base. At this point, I can’t wait to add more cameras to my home, this is definitely a product that I would recommend to friends and family.

Great cámara!!! Is way better than Ring o Blink. Also it is compatible with Alexa. Is great, you can see every little detail with this cámara.the Battery Is very durable, but it takes like 20-30 min to charge. The battery takes around 1 month without charging. I recommend using this cámaras 100%.

A great product, security camera, no wires, great color pictures with free history play back for three hours. Easy to install and pair-up with your internet. Plan to replace other security cameras with this Google-Next indoor/outdoor wire free camera.

This Google battery powered Nest Camera has all of the options and features needed to customize it to whatever the placement and situation requires. The camera is for indoor or outdoor use and can be operated on battery or continuous power. The basic camera package comes with the camera, charge cable, power adapter, and mounting hardware. The camera itself comes with a built-in powerful magnetic plate so the camera can be secured to a metal surface without using mounting hardware. In addition, there is an optional weighted camera stand available that makes placement of the camera very easy. The stand comes with a 10ft power cable so that the camera can have continuous power rather than running on battery while on the stand. There's also an optional 33ft weatherproof power cable available for indoor or outdoor use. Setup of the camera is done with the Google Home app. On the app, you can customize activity zones, battery usage settings, event type detection (people, vehicles, animals, motion), event type recording, event notifications, and home & away routines. A free 3 hour event history is included in the Google Home app and 60 days of event history is available with a Nest Aware subscription. The live feed or recorded videos can be viewed on any device with the Google Home app, making the camera and settings accessible from multiple devices. The camera is 1080p color or black and white (night vision), the live video feed and recordings are excellent. The camera and all included or optional accessories are well made with high quality materials.

Wireless is so easy to install and I’m using the magnetic plate on the dide of the house. Awesome picture and sound quality. Battery lasts easily 3 months or more. You save battery life when you set the camera to sleep mode and will activate when motion occurs.

I've had the nest camera for about a week and overall, it's a good addition to the Google nest ecosystem, but unlike past cameras, you must use the new Google Home app instead of the old Nest app to view and manage this camera, which is extremely clunky if you have older Nest Cams that are still on the original Nest app, since you have to swich back and forth. The addition of a battery (finally!) to a nest cam is great, and this would be a perfect choice for an outdoor camera, EXCEPT that the solar panel is not yet available (coming in November?) and Google recommends purchasing an additional security cable mount if you're mounting it higher than 6 ft since the camera only attaches via magnets. Also, although listed as "weather resistant", it's discouraged to mount in a location that will be directly exposed to rain. Also, the operating temp limit is a very low 103 degrees F, which depending on where you live and how strong the direct sunlight is on the camera, will be an issue. Overall, this is a good choice if you MUST have a battery camera and you're committed to the Nest ecosystem. Otherwise if you're willing to explore other brands/systems, there are better battery-powered cameras available.

The video quality of the camera is pretty good including night mode, but it is very spotty when capturing movement. I have several cameras overlapping and one camera could pick up movement while the other doesn't.

These new cams are not better than the older versions (wired, which I have several already mounted in use for my yard). When this battery version came out, the selling point was that it *supposedly* lasts a month on one charge. One of my walls doesnt have access to wired power, so I was thrilled to give this a try. The difference: The new cams have better 4K quality compared to the previous wired outside cams. That is the ONLY pro in my opinions CONS: Camera will not be able to be shown through your existing Nest app, only through the GoogleHome App. further, unless your cam is plugged in an outdoor cable setup, it DOES NOT constantly stream, which is a big difference. So, it only works on motion detect, and you can only see it through the GoogleHome app. Secondly, the battery on average runs out within a week on my. I do not have a busy street but this still drains it at such rate. These are garbage and not ready for prime-time daily use (which the older ones are definitely are). AVOID, unless you want to use these indoors on a constant battery source (which renders the battery as a selling point in the first place!)

Looser product, horrible implementation. The new Google Cams are NOT compatible with Nest and Google Home app wont allow all the functionality of older Nest or dropcams, (eg: activity zones). So, unless you want to use two applications to manage your cameras, anyone who has existing nestcams, google indoor/outdoor or dropcams and considering adding a new google wireless camera should think about going to a different eco-system. Very frustrating as there was no information about this prior to purchase. TO be fair.. Im giving it 2 stars as Im sure the camera itself is great. but id give it sub-stars for compatibility. I mean seriously... why wouldn't google think that perhaps people who bought cameras a whopping year or two ago, wouldn't want to add additional cameras to their system???

This camera is an elegant looking, easy to set up camera that is versatile enough for almost any use case. PROS: - Set up: being wire free and weather proof means that you can set this up nearly anywhere you need. The mounting system has a very strong magnet that allows for a wide variety of mounting angles and if you would like continuous power or an interior stand those are offered separately. Including this to your google home account is also a breeze. Features: The included 3 hour of record/ playback is awesome. The activity zones are very smart. The facial detection and familiar faces is expectedly accurate. and the contextual notifications straight from google home are actually really nice. Also the battery life (and battery saver feature) is VERY good. Finally, the picture & sound quality, along with the speed of the live view & notifications is top notch. Cons: Honestly none. This camera checks all the boxes you would want in a product of it's kind and, honestly, is WELL worth the price. If you are looking for an easy to use battery powered camera packed with features, you will NOT be dissapointed with this product.

Is a great project, I love it and it’s necessary for me

I've used several different kinds of security cameras, but if I had to start over, I'd use these. Integration into the Home app is flawless, so you don't have to install any other app. You only have to go one place to see what's going on. Alerts are very configurable. I used this as a "littercam" for a while, aimed at one of my cats' litter boxes to keep track of which cat is using which box, and I set the camera to only alert on animals. Picture quality is very good, even in the dark. The resolution is pretty high so you can really zoom in to see details. I used it with the charging stand, so I can't comment on the battery life, but the camera is really durable. I've dropped it on our cement basement floor a few times and it didn't seem to affect the camera at all. It's very clever how it only records when there's alerts, and no full-time, so that saves a ton of storage space, so this isn't as powerful as an NVR type of system, but it has all the features you'd really want.