GoogleGJQ9T Nest Cam (Indoor, Wired) Security Camera - Smart Home WiFi Camera

That's cam is awesome. The definition is great even at only 720p where the maximum is 1020p. I did not try the highest resolution as i am already happy with a medium one. The price is dear at around £150 but it's worth it with a high quality. You can listen to what is going on and also zoom in if needed. Got some other features that are also useful like night vision and motion sensor not to mention a few. I went abroad and still kept an eye on the house or an ear ehehehe. And also if you are busy doing something else like enjoying your holiday or having a meeting, it will alert you by notice on your smartphone. The only problem is that after 30 days of free history review of your cam, you will have to subscribe to a monthly or yearly subscription. I personally do it on a monthly basis and it's at £24 where the year one is £240. I will subscribe when going away on holiday only. You can access your cam using your PC or your smartphone (iphone or ipad in this case) by entering a log-in password. The camera cannot be turned off completely apart from taking off the cam from the network, as there is no battery to put it on standby but it will not stream on the network when it is 'off' and as i said you cannot access your cam unless you have a password. You have two options 'Home' and 'Away'. The 'Home' option will turn off the cam and sensors when you are obviously Home and the 'Away' option will put your cam on with all the sensors on, vision and sounds. By the way, the cam is so sensitive that it will sense a flash by your window as movement but you can change that by targeting a certain area of the house. This is a great tool, I do not regret for buying it at all. Check also the cover there is available to hide the cam. The cam can also be mounted on a wall if needed with the parts provided. Also i've compared some other cams about their design, and this one is really good looking. But nonetheless I was looking mostly about how practical it was to hide or stand the cam in the house.

Does exactly what it says on the package and works great in the google ecosystem. We have google thermostats, doorbell and outdoor camera all feeding into google home and this is the last addition so we can keep an eye on our puppy. Work reliable and is super easy to use.

This is a really neat little camera. I've used a couple of standard IP cameras with a NAS in the past, and was looking for something a little more stand-alone. The Nest Cam certainly fits the bill. Setting up is easy - scan a QR code and plug it in and you're pretty much up and running. The Nest app shows the cameras along with the thermostat and smoke alarms (if you have them).The settings are pretty flexible - if you don't want to run them all the time, you can use the other Nest device's 'auto-away' setting to switch your cameras on and off, or use a schedule. It can use a couple of settings up to 1080 video to let you trade off data transfer against video quality. It has a very wide angle lens - so it can cover a wide area. You can set particular zones to monitor, and zoom in to an area of interest. All in all, really good. You can see the video in real time or (with a subscription to Nest Aware) see history for a period. To be honest, without the subscription it will be of limited use - but the price isn't too unreasonable (£8 per month for the first camera, and £4 per month for subsequent ones). It can give you notifications of motion and/or sound but currently can't send you an email. Since the original Dropcam could do this, I'm hoping that Nest restore this functionality. You can also talk to someone using the camera - which could be useful.I really like the Nest Cam. It removes a lot of the awkward configuration needed for IP cameras at the cost of tying you to Nest for full functionality. Some won't like that trade-off, but for me it works well and gives a very quick and easy way to monitor our house when we are away.

We have lots of Nest cameras, the thermostat and the smoke detectors linked up into one app, controlled by iPad, Mac or iPhone and mostly working perfectly. However, everything depends on WiFi and, if there is a glitch in supply or a conflicting signal from a neighbouring property, an issue with broadband supply or just a plain power cut, everything goes down - including the thermostat, making heating your home a little bit more challenging. Okay, if you have a power cut then you know any camera will go offline, but the Nest system seems particularly sensitive to these and often takes a while to come back online and settle down again (I often have to switch the power supply off and on again, which means going to the camera socket - the outdoor ones are in the attic, which isn’t possible if you are at a distance and on holiday, for example).The indoor cameras are great and usually work well as WiFi inside the house tends to be reliable. I have signed up to the cloud recording system and save down clips most days. I can save clips on my iPad or iPhone just by pressing on a link, but the clip I get may not always be what I want, so I have to go to my Mac for better access and control, saving longer clips of exactly what I want in terms of start and finish times and also time lapses if I want those (although note you are limited to a 2 minute timelapse duration and Nest often reduces these down to a much shorter period for no obvious reason (maybe related to storage capacity?) - I have yet to find a way to overcome this limitation).Installation of the indoor cameras is very easy and not much more than plug in and play - you just need to scan the code and link to your account. If your signal is strong, the video quality is superb, but you won’t recognise faces from a distance if the WiFi signal is at all weak, unless someone comes very close. Even then, quality may not be good enough and Nest has enough outages that I often find the signal cuts out just when I want to watch something.With a subscription of £100pa (currently), I can store 3 hours of saved footage from all of my cameras and have cloud backup of a month’s continuous footage from all of my cameras, plus clips of activities that triggered an alert for another 2 months. You can overcome the limitations of 3 hours in the cloud by saving down and then deleting clips to free up space. You need to keep space free to save down clips as, once you hit 3 hours, the system prevents any more clips from being saved, although the continuous feed continues to be stored, so you can go back in time to get something once you have freed capacity.For all of the limitations, I would not be without my Nest cameras.