Customer Ratings & Reviews

Total fail. I have had the wired nest camera for 5 years and I loved the nest aware app. Regardless of any motion event, it was the only cameras that would continuously record. I was excited to replace those two wired cameras with these two battery powered wireless cameras but these aren’t even close to the same product I had before. For starters, you can’t use the nest aware app with these cameras. When you install them, Nest makes you use the google home app and the app is not user friendly like the nest aware app. Secondly, they don’t allow you to continuously record. As a matter of fact they don’t even record unless you login and click “live video”. But once you close the app the camera goes back to idle mode. To get live video, you have to open the app back up and click live video. And they only record motion events. Third, to record 3 hours of events, you need to plug in a wire to your wireless camera now making it a wired camera. The whole point was having wireless cameras and now you have to plug in a wire to your wireless camera. Fourth, the set of two cameras only comes with one wire. Are you serious?!? You have to plug in a wire to your wireless camera to get all the features but you only include one wire to the set of two cameras?!? I would say the person who was in charge of this project was sipping a bit too much on the whisky.

So easy! These cameras were super simple to install and link to my Google Home app. Nice clear picture and I love that I can enlarge the view to find my animals hiding. Voice come through clearly on both transmit and receive. Great buy!

The camera itself is nice and built well, not as well built as the older IQ cameras. When plugged in there is an exposed wire where the IQ hid the wire. The real issue lies in the program the video can be viewed from. This camera only operates on the Home App, not the Nest App. Meaning you cannot view on a computer, you cannot create clips, you can't view all of your nest products on one app. Meaning you get notifications now from two apps and need to flip from one to another. I own two of these cameras as well as several of the older generation cameras. There have been two instances that I needed a recording but because you can only download events and not create a clip I was able to only download before and after what happened not during. Very disappointing that Google would go away from this Even with the Nest Aware subscription, you are not able to create a clip. This is something I did not find out until after I purchased the cameras and installed them (wired). Even though it was advertised at the store that you could crate clips with the subscription.

These are very well built cameras that offer clear images and sound. However, they need to be recharged too frequently for my use, and so I returned them.

It’s very sleek and convenient to instal and connect. But it misses a lot of events while capturing others in less important areas. Even though you can select fields to increase sensitivity. There doesn’t seem to be any consistency with what it detects. It also can take a long time to connect to my phone which I don’t understand. I also have blink cameras on the interior which are plugged in for electricity but connect to wifi. I never have a problem waiting for those to connect.

Love the night vision and resolution, overall quality is what you would expect from Google, beautiful presentation, ease of installation, and actual understandable installation process. We do use one as a “baby monitor” but we had to hard wire it as the battery would run out over night. I guess that would be the only drawback we’ve encountered. The other camera was installed in the garage and the battery has a great run time, (this is after 3 weeks of use) and we’ve yet to have to charge it after it’s initial charge upon installation.

Bought the open boxed one and came looking perfect, works how it should

I love this camera. It’s one of the best I have ever seen.

Easy setup and integration into the home app. Like the easy installation on my house. Battery life varies depending on the event settings. the camera in my backyard I have only charged once a month the one over my front yard looking towards the road is every 2 weeks. I am happy with that. GOod picture quality

good quality on images. battery is worthless. only lasts a few days and they only provide one charger with the 2 pack. also, can't use with online nest account. need to use a stupid home app which is not available desktop

I now have a few of these cameras and overall they are very good for my use case. I have them connected directly to an outlet so I don't worry about charging batteries. The resolution is HD and the night vision is acceptable. I don't currently subscribe to their cloud service so you get three hours of history. That isn't a lot but it works for me as I can download any clip as needed. There are other options out there and I've used a few but these seem to work just fine for me and the safety of my household.

These are ok, a little disappointed in streaming quality but it gets the job done. Have lots of issues with connectivity, however ease of use and set up is really easy. Battery life on these last forever, almost 3 weeks. No weather or rain guard so when it rains view is obstructed

Great video quality, easy to set up. Took months to decide between this and ring, but it works so easy with phone and other Google displays. One app on my phone for doorbell, security camera, hue lights, thermostat and smart displays. I had Ring camera, install on that one took a while and when i had to recharge, i had to remember his to unscrew it then take out the battery. This one you simply pop it off the magnet, or unscrew the security screw and take the camera down. Install is much easier than ring camera too

Work real good with the camera bought with it .would rebuy it again very easy to install also received it on time with know delays.

These are easy to install, setup on phone simple, my only complaint/concern is the battery life is significantly less than advertised. Having to climb the ladder every 10 days is not very pleasant.

The camera works great. My only initial issue was getting it to connect/setup on the Google home app. It needed to be near another nest product to get connected. Thankfully, I already use the best thermostat, so I held it next to that and it finally connected. From there it was a breeze. The picture quality is great. Something to keep in mind, is that it doesn't have theft protection. So i highly recommend purchasing some theft protection to prevent anyone from walking up and and just taking your camera (its only magnetically held on). You will get notifications when people are spotted. My only complaint there is that there should be a "snooze" button for that alert. When my lawn guys come, it constantly will send me notifications while they're working. All in all, it does what it needs to do and I enjoy them.

easy set up and upkeep when using wireless camera. Pictures and videos are very clear and good detail.

Love our Google cameras much more than the previous Arlo cameras that we had. Cameras are clear and work well with our Google home app and interior display. Price of the cameras along with the solar panels is quite high but worth every penny.

I do feel like this is an upgrade over the previous Nest IQ cameras largely due to the on-device biometrics. It’s very impressive how quickly it can pick up a known face (almost instantly). In general, notifications come in again almost instantly vs. about 30 second to 1 minute with the old IQ cameras. The vehicle notifications are also very handy. Allows me to keep the motion alerts category of notifications off which provides a much quieter experience in terms of notifications. The video quality looks on par with the older IQ cameras. I’m using the cameras in wired power mode. The night visions seems slightly better than on the IQ cameras, but it’s very close. It is nice to see Nest release a battery camera which increases its versatility. I know everyone was hoping for a true 4K camera, but it’s just not feasible to have say 5 or 6 cameras all streaming 4K video to the cloud at the same time. We’ll get there eventually, but just not yet. Overall, a solid upgrade!

Good video and audio. Very easy to install although I had to try multiple times to get all the way through the process. Battery life so far is great. Wish they were constant on like the other nest cams but other than that very good cams.