Nest

We have tried using the Google camera with this system for a baby cam etc., but it is just so unreliable, we have even changed the wifi infrastructure a couple of times and the camera feed is always unreliable not meeting the expectation I would of had for Google.

Google products but impossible to transfer the viewing and control from Nest app to Google Home. Could doing last version but not anymore

Will have to get ride of 7 cameras now

Video only loads around 50% of the time. Google, you’ve really done a number on Nest…

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BUG: In the settings for “status light” there’s an option called “Watching the camera,” where the light will blink green when someone is watching the video. But when selected, the light doesn’t blink when watching the video. NOTE: this review is about the “Nest Aware Plus” subscribed version. PROS: Simple and easy to set up - scan the camera’s barcode with your phone’s camera, give the camera’s area a name, and you’re done. Whether it’s live or a recording, it always shows the time of the image at the top of the screen. It makes it easy to scroll through the timeline. It also assures me that, when nothing is changing in the video, the app hasn’t frozen. The Sightline feature is amazing - scrolling the time-bar throughout the day, plus seeing the bars where motion was detected, is a great way to review a time-period, or to find a specific event. In both the iPad and iPhone apps, you can long-press the notification and see a thumbnail-gif that shows a summary of the motion that was detected. That’s a great timesaver. You can limit notifications to when it detects people, instead of all movements. HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER: Add a pause button. Add the date (YYYY-MM-DD) to the time at the top of the screen, so that screenshots will say which day it was from. Also add the date to all the names, instead of a generic name like “yesterday” or “Friday.” The 15-second interval when reviewing a video isn’t enough - add 10-second and 30-second buttons. Having the on-screen controls disappear automatically is annoying - make it so that it stays on/off until I tap on the screen. Add all the Sightline features (eg. timeline of events, “new clip” recording) to the iPad app. Both apps should work the same. (I later found out that the Sightline features are on the iPad app - when you use it in portrait-mode.) Increase the size of the options dialogue-box so that we don’t have to scroll down to see the other options. Put the camera at the top of the settings dialogue-box, instead of at the bottom. Make it easier to save a clip - instead of long-pressing, add a record button, like on the iPhone’s camera app. When saving a clip, it should save the date and time on the screen, so you can always tell when something happened. Add an easy way to disable motion-detection for, say, 10 minutes. That way we can do activities in front of the camera without setting off a bunch of notifications. CONCLUSION: A good app, with some room for improvement - 4 stars.

Always having to reset it. Even then it takes forever to load and even then, it will only load up approximately 1% of the time. It’s useless.

old and new nest products cannot work together, disappointing! need 2 apps to run my different cameras…

Smoke detectors keep false alarming and always in the middle of the night !

What was once the best home safety product on the market is now a useless heap of plastic that is not compatible with any of the new Google Home products and is infuriatingly cumbersome to connect.