Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent cameras by Google. I am building a Google home environment.

For being 1080p these cameras seem to have a much better video quality then others in the same bracket.

great product , serves the purpose, east to install.

I have nest throughout my home, that’s why I bought these cameras. The image is good. But now I need a separate Application.

Great for outdoors. Battery life is really good. Love that picture quality as well.

Not as good as the wired cameras but it is acceptable.

Love the quality and ease of setting these up following the instructions

For the price the resolution should be a lot better but it’s a very reliable camera.

I like them, but the battery don’t last, I guess because of activity it don’t last long

Love theses cameras easy to set up and easy to work

It’s a great camera in terms of quality and durability, but the app it uses now to view the video feed is horrible. The google home app is no place for a home security camera. I have a google doorbell which uses the Nest app and it works beautiful on the nest app I hope they figure this out because the pain points with google home really diminishes the value for me

Easy install works great, great picture and aound.

I can’t give 5 stars because this device and others like it depend on your internet connection and sometimes it can just disconnect

Cam work very well capturing any movement. Night vision is extremely accurite

Great! Love the cameras work wel easy to install works well with hub and doorbell. Lose they are wireless.

Good quality video, strong magnetic mount. Having Nest Plus makes it even better

It's great, however we have to charge it often. No history recordings

At the end of the day, this is a decent camera with some nice features and some small upgrades over the previous generation, but in the end Is lacking overall and falls way short of being a true successor to the previous generation nest cameras. Build Quality The build quality here is very good. The camera is robust and sturdy, made with high quality materials and has a nice soft touch feel to it. It is quite large so if you're looking to discreetly place this camera or try to hide from view , this is not the camera for you. Its magnetic base is super strong And holds the camera securely in place with No Fear of it coming loose or changing position. I also tested the nest camera stand for indoors, and that is also very nice , very sturdy with great weight to it and will hold the camera securely in place wherever you position it. Setup The first thing I will say that most every review of this camera also points out, these cameras do not work with the nest app. They will only work with the Google Home app. I will talk more about that later but this point seems to be one of the biggest issues that people have coming from previous generation nest cameras. Setting up the camera is super simple. Simply open the Google Home app, tap set up device, scan the QR code located on the front of the camera and the app does the rest. What I can say about the Google Home app is that overall it's not as intuitive as the dedicated nest app. It almost feels like everything that you want to do in the setup or configuration of your camera is another tap away. Certain things are not as easy to find and other features like setting up motion zones are located behind menu items you may not have anticipated. this might just be a learning curve, as I have polder nest cameras and used the nest app all the time so while I wish these cameras did integrate into the nest app I will just take some time to learn the new Google Home app. But while we're on this topic, the one thing the previous generation nest cameras had available to them, is they were accessible from a web browser. These cameras are only available through the Google Home app . There is no web browser utility on a computer that you can access the camera or its settings. I hope this is something they add in a future update because I use the nest desktop URL to access my cameras all the time. You do however have all kinds of app configurability that allows you to set home/away routines, motion and event sensitivity and what kinds of events you want to see recorded, and also notifications filtering, etc. If you’ve used Nest Cameras in the past you’ll know all about these, if you are new to Nest cameras, they are great and offer you a lot of customization to what and when your cameras record and when you’re notified. Ease of Use once you've set up your camera and have determined a nice place for it, using the camera itself is very straightforward and very easy. I’ve mentioned the app above, and while you can do most things that the prior Nest app could do, the Google Home app is just not very intuitive, and requires some time to get used to. I’ve been using the camera both on battery power and using the outdoor power cable. In either configuration the camera is reliable, however at different levels. Battery Depending on how often you trigger events and notifications is going to directly correlate into the battery life you get from the camera, I can say that with pretty high triggers set on mine, the battery life % held steady day after day, only dropping a few % points, so each user scenario will vary, but I believe the battery life on these is going to be really good. Getting notifications and recorded events on battery power was a mixed bag of results. More often than not, it missed the beginning of an event, so you get recordings started after the fact, and notifications, while slightly faster than last generation, were still lagging a little bit behind. And recordings were all over the place in terms of recoding length, even after I had configured event history details in the app. Clips would start or stop before the event was done. Very frustrating. I also get a little hitch in the recording shortly after it triggers, which impacts the recoding quality, more on that later. Recognition of people, cars, motion in general was fairly good, and if you have Nest Aware, you can also use the Familiar Faces detection, which works great When on battery power, you only get a timeline of recorded “Events” to view, and scrolling through them is pretty easy, they are laid out in a vertical timeline that allows you to jump directly to the event you want. When trying to go into the Live View of the camera when on battery, you are first taken to the page that shows how much battery % is left, you have to click again, to actually go into Live View, so annoying. Sometimes when trying to go into a recorded Event from a notification, I get an error message saying the video isn’t available yet. Which if you’re trying to view something in real time, is not good if you need to see what your camera sees. Plugged in Power Plugged in to me, is where the camera is at its best, when coupled with a Nest Aware subscription that allows for 24/7 recording. Right off the bat, I have to mention, that the power cable attaches to the camera in a “backwards” type of position. This is incredible to me, that Google could not engineer this updated camera with a power supply that actually plugs in facing the right direction. The cable has to plug in facing the wrong direction, and create this unneeded slack of cable under the camera to route to where you need to go. Amazing design failure here. Getting notifications is immediate when plugged in, thanks to the on device computations the camera is doing now, instead of sending to the cloud and back down. Recording clips is so much better plugged in versus battery, since its recording all the time, you never miss the first few seconds of an event, which could be crucial. When the event is done recording, the view of that event from your history will start a few seconds before hand, so you never miss a thing, and record for the event for as long as needed. Scrubbing history when plugged in to power is a mixed bag. You get the same Events history overview that you do on battery power, but you also get a 24/7 timeline that you can scrub to view anything else the camera might have missed. This is terrible compared to the previous Nest App timeline scrubbing. The timeline doesn’t allow for any other increment of scrubbing (day, hour, min) so you have to mindlessly scrub if you’re looking for events previously in the day. Going into Live View is super fast, and when powered, you don’t have to stop off on the battery % screen, you are taken directly into the live view, which helps not miss moments Similar to when on battery, even when plugged in, I might go into my video event history and need to look at something that was just recorded, and the app will give me the video not available error. Very frustrating when you are recording 24/7, and something I never encounter on my other prior generation Nest Cameras. Video Quality Here is where the camera really lets me down. Even if you can live with all the quirks and issues I’ve listed above, the fact that this camera in 2021 is a base 2MP sensor that only records 1080p is pretty underwhelming. In perfect daytime conditions, yes the video is very nice. Keep in mind however, you can only use it in the app on a mobile device, so viewing on such a small screen can be deceiving. Everything looks good on a small phone screen. Nighttime mode is terrible. They can tout the new Night Mode on this camera, but its just not good. Very soft and pixelated. And turning night mode off is even worse, even in brightly lit outdoor night time scenes, the video is just terrible. Trying to zoom in on anything makes the picture a pixelated mess. Again, native 2MP sensor just can’t zoom in and give quality details. Sometimes I get a pink/reddish hue covering my videos, looks terrible On Battery, when an event is triggered, you can see the recording “hitch” for a second or two, degrading the video quality before going back to normal. This doesn’t happen when plugged in. Overall, the camera is just decent. Nothing special. Which being a current Nest camera user of all their previous cameras, is such a bummer for me. This is not an upgrade over their existing cameras in my opinion, this is a do over. Starting from scratch under the Google brand as they slowly phase out Nest. So if you’re hoping for an upgrade over your current Nest cameras, this is not it. For someone new to Google/Nest cameras, there could be a lot to like here, especially the perceived battery life and custom event and notification setup. But its lacking so much in 2021 that makes a camera like this worth it, and to me this one just falls short.

easy to setup picture image is beyond expectations.

They work great. One of the best things I purchased this year.