The dual 2,400-lumen lights were bright enough to illuminate my back patio, and even give me pretty solid vision to the edge of my midsized yard at night, and the crisp 1080p image resolution and reliable smart alerts kept me apprised of all the activity going on in my backyard at any given time. The Nest Cam with Floodlight is a solid device with great app control. Ring, of course, comes with its own set of privacy concerns. While Ring offers more thorough end-to-end video encryption, it's only on wired devices, and it's something users have to opt into. Footage is encrypted while in transit from the camera and while at rest on Nest servers, and all the processing (like distinguishing between people, vehicles and animals, or processing face biometrics) will happen on the device itself - meaning that footage doesn't need to be sent to the cloud other than for storage purposes.Įncrypting at these vulnerable in-transit and at-rest points in the chain helps prevent unauthorized access to your data from would-be hackers and spying eyes. I do appreciate the privacy aspects of the Nest Cam, too. Instead, what you'll probably want the subscription for is more storage than the three hours of event history. Adding facial recognition with the Familiar Faces feature via Nest Aware has worked well for me, but I don't think it's a make-or-break feature. When you're trying to find the right brightness setting, then, you have to toggle back and forth between the brightness slider and the live stream.ĭespite this annoying quirk, I generally enjoyed exploring my new powers of remote observation in the Google Home app. The one unintuitive bit is that the floodlight and the camera are treated as distinct devices in the app, meaning you can't dim the light - or even turn it on - from the live stream of the camera. It's also easy to pull up your video history, sliding back to watch various events, which are labeled according to what prompted them - people, animals or vehicles. The Nest Cam's floodlight is dimmable on the Google Home app - but not on the same screen as the live camera feed. In short, the Nest Cam with Floodlight isn't outrageously priced - but it also doesn't stand out as a particularly good deal for the features, especially when compared to the more affordable and equally well-featured competition. Upgrade to Nest Aware Plus for $12 a month and you'll get all of those options plus 60 days of video history and 10 days of 24/7 video recording. Subscribe to Nest Aware for $6 per month and you'll get familiar face detection and sound alerts (smoke alarm, glass breaking and carbon monoxide alarm), the ability to call 911 from the Google Home app and 30 days of event video history. Nest falls between Ring and Arlo when it comes to floodlight brightness when wired (Arlo's brightness is only 2000 lumens when operating on battery power). It's comparable in wiring setup and resolution to Ring's much more affordable (and dimmer) floodlight camera, though the Ring device has a siren and Nest's doesn't. Nest fits comfortably in the range of its competitors - but it's a little pricier both up-front and with monthly fees than both leading alternatives. 2000 lumens (battery)/3000 lumens (wired)
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