Nest outdoor cams. Need the pros and cons

Did you purchase the Nest Aware service?

Am I right in saying that you don't have to purchase it unless you want to play the video back?

Look at canary flex too. Believe you get 24 hours free split between all cameras.

I just switched from charter to AT&T 1 Gbps. With Charter I never tracked Gbs. Right now I've got 173 Gbps uploaded and about the same download with 11 days left. But I'm unlimited with AT&T fiber.

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Look at canary flex too. Believe you get 24 hours free split between all cameras.

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This! I've got the original Canary, and I swear by it. They've got the best free plan out of all of the smart cams that I've researched, which I believe were all of the major name brands.

I bought this for the lake house. Has 16GB of built in storage so you don't need a "cloud". Review and save the videos on your phone or PC. Seems to work fine for me as a one camera security system. IIRC mine is only set to record when motion is detected. Erases the oldest footage when new footage is recorded. Not sure how long you would have in a more active environment to get the videos off.

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Following this thread.

I thought you had to pay more per month per camera, so it's only $10 and you can have 3 cameras?


Also, I just have basic high speed (20 down), is that sufficient? I don't really need it running when I am home, can you turn it off so it doesn't slow down when we are using it for other things?

Mainly just under the back porch and carport. Both are about 400sqft each

I bought a nest camera for our nursery and it has been great. My MIL gave me an outdoor camera for christmas, but I'm still on the fence about putting it up for a few reasons:

1. I'd like 3-4 cameras total outside, which would be rather expensive if all were the exterior Nest Camera.
2. They require power and are wireless. I think a wired PoE solution may be better because all I'd need to do is run ethernet to each point where I'd like a camera.
3. I don't like how Nest forces you to purchase a subscription to utilize the recording feature. As far as I know with our current camera, you can't actually replay video from 3-5 hours ago, you can only see screenshots of motion/sound. (correct me if I'm wrong here).

That's why I am really contemplating selling the current Outdoor Nest camera I haven't set up yet and purchasing a 4 camera system to set up outside. I did some rough math and figured for a decent system with storage space, new switch for PoE (which I just bought already for other purposes), cable, etc. would run me about $1000. And I'm still debating whether spending that amount on outdoor security camera is actually necessary.

Sorry, I go back and forth on this.

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Came across those too. I'm looking for something that will send notifications when movement is detected and something I can check whenever I please from my phone

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To add to this, I installed two of these at my grandparents house on their front and back porch. They get a ton of notifications on sounds/movement throughout the day, from trees swaying to squirrels running around. I've had to turn off notifications on all but one device because it was annoying them so much. So keep that in mind.

That's what I've figured, and why the Nest Cam continues to sit in it's box six months later. My wife is pissed because she thinks I don't like the present her mom gave me. I just can't make a decision and don't want to drop the extra money on a camera system right now.

I also don't want to run cable to the far corners of my house.