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Nest Cam Indoor review: Killed by cool-down times

The Nest Cam Indoor sports a fancy look and a nice list of features, but it lacks in value and misses on some performance tests. We compare the specs and price of this Google-powered camera to options from Ring, Arlo and Wyze. We also put it to the test with a fizzy-water-stealing thief and Pepper…

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The Nest Cam Indoor sports a fancy look and a nice list of features, but it lacks in value and misses on some performance tests.

We compare the specs and price of this Google-powered camera to options from Ring, Arlo and Wyze. We also put it to the test with a fizzy-water-stealing thief and Pepper the dog.

0:00 Intro
0:47 The Basics
1:21 Motion Alerts Test
3:04 Event History
4:17 Animal Alert Test
5:32 Cooldown
5:47 The Competition
7:31 Conclusion

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38 Comments

  1. JogBird

    November 5, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    Damn cnet is paying him well for these reviews

  2. Hi-Fi Insider

    November 5, 2021 at 1:16 pm

    typical Google products, half baked (at best) and no 2nd level thinking. Why would you want to call 911 from Google app when you’re holding a real phone that can make real calls.

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    November 5, 2021 at 1:26 pm

    💪🏻

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    November 5, 2021 at 1:34 pm

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  5. christian crow

    November 5, 2021 at 1:35 pm

    Nest cam more like pest cam

  6. Michael Stanton

    November 5, 2021 at 1:37 pm

    I have a very old Nest camera in my garage, I’d love to have this camera in there with vehicle alerts.

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  8. Ελισαβετ Μανταμαδιωτη

    November 5, 2021 at 2:30 pm

    its cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9. cwarriorsart

    November 5, 2021 at 2:46 pm

    Kasa is better.

  10. Ron Cosby

    November 5, 2021 at 2:47 pm

    Here we go with Leo Laporta style Google bashing. Go Apple 🍎!

  11. Cross

    November 5, 2021 at 2:51 pm

    indoor cameras are fucking creepy cuz u see soo many videos of ppl’s cameras getting hacked and they are spied on by outside ppl. like do u need cameras in ur kitchen, living room and bedrooms??? like ur outdoor cameras will protect ur home just fine

    • Abdullah Malik

      November 7, 2021 at 7:11 am

      Gmail,

  12. MoniCast A New Way of Podcast

    November 5, 2021 at 3:29 pm

    the app should call police and send the Video togehter

  13. Rendy Tobing

    November 5, 2021 at 3:56 pm

    Assuming the new cams work the same as previous Nest Cams, he needs to press the microphone button a second time to start broadcasting. This creates a little lag, sure, but it’s not the same as the feature not working.

    • David Priest

      November 6, 2021 at 1:00 pm

      They actually don’t work the same way. You can see it working exactly as it’s supposed to in the dog test, when a single press starts the two-way talk.

  14. Jordan Simons

    November 5, 2021 at 4:41 pm

    How does the overall image quality compare to the previous nest cam indoor (not the IQ line)? The specs seem to be a downgrade, but I wonder if HDR makes up for it?

    • David Priest

      November 6, 2021 at 12:32 pm

      This is anecdotal, since I haven’t worked with the old Nest cams in a few years, but the image quality was pretty sharp as I used it, despite seeming to be a downgrade. Basically, I thought it looked very good.

  15. Gabe

    November 5, 2021 at 4:44 pm

    Great review, would love to see you test Ring Alarm Pro and more specifically, the new Ring Edge feature for local processing and local storage. Amazon made a big deal out of this at their event, and seeing how Google is marketing on device processing, I’m wondering how Ring fares in comparison. (Oddly enough, a lot of Rings devices won’t be compatible like their doorbell 4, floodlight cam, etc)

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    November 5, 2021 at 5:17 pm

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  17. GreenAppelPie

    November 5, 2021 at 6:26 pm

    Way overpriced

  18. Michael Mavel

    November 5, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    You were muting 2 way audio when starting the live stream, the app was clearly flashing at you to un-mute. It must come on automatically.

    • David Priest

      November 6, 2021 at 12:30 pm

      I know it looks like that, but that’s not the case. I thought the same thing at first, too, but the button is flashing to show that you’re actively talking, and the crossed out mic is there to say you can press it to mute. It’s weird, I know. But I tested it well over twenty times.

    • Michael Mavel

      November 6, 2021 at 8:29 pm

      @David Priest Yea thats odd. Maybe the app didn’t have Microphone permissions, and was for some reason not prompting for it.. shrug, who knows.

  19. Alex

    November 6, 2021 at 12:11 am

    I would rather but eufy , reolink and Imou . They are all 2k and free storage and half the price.

  20. godblessCL

    November 6, 2021 at 12:49 am

    Well the problem with google is that it use your data. The camera needs a PIR

  21. CoolRaul

    November 6, 2021 at 7:41 am

    I used to own 15 or 17 I can’t remember nest cameras in my house indoor and outdoor. This was 2 years ago I got rid of every single one of them sold them on eBay recouped a lot of my money thank God. They were the worst pieces of junk in the world. The quality was nowhere near 1080p and forget about the 4K versions. The video would go out to the cloud and then come back to you and when it did so it would come back at maybe 600p definitely not 720P and hell to the f****** no it was not 1080p stay away from nest or Google cameras until they get there straight

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    November 6, 2021 at 1:55 pm

    Great video 😎❤️👍

  23. GammaCamel

    November 7, 2021 at 10:49 pm

    I think some of the new brands of cameras are better than Nest Cameras and cheaper. The are more expensive and don’t do anything better.

  24. CNET

    November 8, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    You can see the Nest Cam (indoor, wired) here:
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  25. AsHellBored

    November 9, 2021 at 1:18 am

    For 100$ I can get a camera with 6x the pixels per second. The only appeal is Google integration and it’s not really fully integrated with Google home.

  26. Tamon K

    November 10, 2021 at 5:52 am

    I don’t wanna talk to a theif from the device. They would smash the cam anyway. It must be secretly recorded, so high resolution matters more to identify who it was.

  27. Sandra Chaffey

    November 10, 2021 at 10:36 am

    Just got the Google nest indoor camera and it’s missing out on recording and sending alerts which I don’t even get the alert in few times. That
    worries me..

  28. Cyle M

    November 11, 2021 at 12:40 am

    Great review. I already purchased the cameras since I was already in the Google ecosystem. So far I haven’t had any issues with them and no I don’t pay for Nest Aware. My biggest positive note about this camera has been when my daughters hamster escaped her cage and was running around the house in the middle of the night. I was able to use the cameras and notifications to get alerts when it saw it running around the floor and I was able to catch it thankfully.

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