Customer Ratings & Reviews
- Model:
- GA02411-US
- SKU:
- 11287559
Rating by feature
- Value
Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars
- Quality
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars
- Ease of Use
Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars
to a friend
great product
||Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.easy to install and use. clarity of video is great. sound is also very good.
I would recommend this to a friendLove the updates
||Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Love the new updates. Installs from home app now..... love it
I would recommend this to a friendWork great!
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Love then and we use them for all our short term rentals!
I would recommend this to a friendExcellent cam
||Posted . Owned for 9 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Face detection is a bit off but other than that it’s ezcellent
I would recommend this to a friendBuyer’s Remorse
||Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.We have a large Neat camera system, and unfortunately it is very slow when playing live video, to the point where it is frustrating.
No, I would not recommend this to a friendBrand response from Nest Support
Posted .Hi there. Thanks for investing high on Google Nest cameras, and for sharing your feedback on the Nest Cam with floodlight. We’re sorry to hear that your experience is below ideal.
Ensuring your camera's optimal performance requires verifying its placement. Connectivity and functionality can be impacted by range issues or wireless interference. Though connection tests may pass, keeping a stable connection might be challenging if the camera is positioned too far from the router. Additionally, network congestion due to an excess of connected devices or an inadequate bandwidth package can also disrupt camera performance. Consider disconnecting other devices to avoid congestion, or extending the network's reach with boosters or additional access points if the camera's location requires it.
You’re always welcome to visit us at the following link for more help: https://support.google.com/googlenest/gethelp
Great camera with nice Google integration
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.This is a solid camera/spotlight that is a very easy and clean setup & installation. Apart from the monthly fee it is very good to keep eyes on from anywhere.
I would recommend this to a friendRichardTheRoofer
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Works well in all weather conditions day and night
I would recommend this to a friendGreat camera system
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Great system that works with my google hub and my samsung z-fold.
I would recommend this to a friendNice product
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.It very nice product having both lamp and camera together.
I would recommend this to a friendBeachgoers
||Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Great service. Cameras working well, happy customer.
I would recommend this to a friendFlood camera light
||Posted . Owned for 8 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Nice Flood camera light from Google best camera battery
I would recommend this to a friend
Very Solid Camera/Flood Light Combo
|Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Unfortunately, I cannot speak to how easy the Google Nest Cam with Floodlight is to physically install. Shortly after it arrived, I threw my back out and had to delay my installation plans. After a bit, we resorted to hiring a handyman. He thought it was easy to install. We simply swapped this unit out for the existing floodlight with motion sensor we had on the garage. One thing to note about installation, it comes out of the box ready to be mounted on a vertical surface, such as a wall. But our prior floodlight was mounted under an overhang around our garage doors. This can be mounted like that, but then the charging cable is a bit unsightly (going over the top of the camera) and you have to flip the orientation in the app to avoid video being upside. But the app did make that easy to do. Speaking of the app, it integrates seamlessly with the Google Home App, especially if you have other Nest products. I have a Nest Doorbell and thermostats. However, despite the branding, the camera does not work at all with the Nest App. Google makes great products like this but seems to give up or change parameters fairly frequently. The Nest App, which is cleaner for the cameras than the Home App, is an example of this issue. Regardless, the camera works well and integrates well into the Home App. You can set multiple zones for the camera to watch. Accordingly, you can set alerts based on the zone. You can select no alerts, all alerts, alerts for vehicles, for people, or for animals. The app does a very nice job of distinguishing between them. I set it so my nearest zone (my driveway and front yard) always give alerts and other areas don't, but I did experiment with varying the alerts by zone, and it worked very well. The app also allows you to calibrate the settings for the floodlights, from intensity to scheduling, which is also nice. The floodlights and camera are both excellent. I would appreciate more fine-tuned control over the schedule, but it works well enough. In the event you lose power, the camera will still keep going due to the battery being charged by being plugged in. I haven't been able to really get an accurate assessment about how long it takes to drain, but that will depend a lot on how much motion it records during that time. However, unless you subscribe to Nest Aware, the app only stores video for the past three hours. That means that if something happens at 2am, it will be gone from the app at 6am. That's not great. For instance, the Nest Doorbell keeps video much longer, but only keeps a specific amount of video available. If you subscribe to Nest Aware, this isn't an issue, but if you were hoping for meaningful free cloud service, you might want to look elsewhere. The three-hour "keep" limit is probably the worse thing about this system. So, all-in-all, the Google Nest Cam With Floodlight is quite good. It works well and is fairly easy to set the way you want it. With most items like this, you get the best use of it with a subscription, but they are still very useful without. Unfortunately, due to the time limits before it deletes video, this Nest Cam forces you into a subscription. And that's really my only major complaint. The lack of integration with the Nest App is a minor complaint. My problem with using the Home App is that I have a ton of smart devices in my home, so I have to scroll a lot to get my cameras. But when I open the Nest App, my doorbell video is front and center, which is a huge plus when you are trying to check whether things are safe.
I would recommend this to a friendBrand response from Nest Support
Posted .Hi mikeheel, thanks for sharing the details of your review to let us know of your experience with the Nest Cam with Floodlight. We’re sorry to hear that it didn’t meet your expectations.
Nest Cam with floodlight is only designed to be installed on vertical surfaces like a wall. It is not designed 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).
Also, Nest Cam battery is the first battery camera created at Google Nest which features full on device machine learning so that we can detect pets, vehicles, people, faces and packages all without any cloud processing. And unlike the previous versions of Nest cameras, all the new cameras come with free 3 hour event-based video history. There's no fee to stream full resolution live video and receive basic notifications, as long as your camera is connected to the internet. However, you’ll need a Nest Aware subscription to record video and receive advanced notifications. With a Nest Aware subscription your video will be saved to the cloud and you’ll get extra features. With a Nest Aware subscription, you’ll get 30 days of event video history, and with Nest Aware Plus, you’ll get 60 days and 10 days of 24/7 video history.
We chose to transition to the Home app because this app is designed for the future of the smart home, a single place to set up, manage, automate, and control your home. And using the Google Home app provides you with a lot of benefits including access to Google's trusted security platform and access to other Google tools.
Here are some other benefits you can get by using the Google Home app with your Nest Cam:
- Automatic security protections such as Suspicious activity detection, 2-Step Verification and Security Checkup.
- If you have a Nest Cam and a Nest Hub, just say, "Hey Google, show me the backyard camera” to cast your camera stream to your display without any additional setup.
- One account to sign into both the Nest and Google Home apps.
- Your homes and home members will be aligned across the Nest and Google Home apps.
We appreciate you for pointing these things out, and we’ll definitely share this with the right team as we’re always on the lookout for opportunities to improve our products and services. And if you have any concerns about using the Nest Cam with Floodlight, or using the Google Home app effectively, let us know anytime here and we’ll help you the best way we can: https://support.google.com/googlenest/gethelp
Protection
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Outstanding home protection. Very bright Spotlight
I would recommend this to a friendGoogle camera
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Great addition to our google smartphone works amazing g
I would recommend this to a friendGood product!!
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I have no problem with this floodlight and camera.
I would recommend this to a friendGoogle Nest Cam with floodlight
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Excellent product, look and quality. Impressed with the functions
I would recommend this to a friendGreat!
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Great product all around. Works great as advertised
I would recommend this to a friendNice to have one in the back yard.
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Super good product. I recommend this google product.
I would recommend this to a friendnest cam
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.very good, works easy if you are in the google eco system...
I would recommend this to a friendGreat unit
||Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Works great! I was able to talk to my dog from my office!
I would recommend this to a friend