Nest cams vs others

I'm not a fan of putting cameras that live on the internet in kid's rooms.

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I'm not a fan of putting cameras that live on the internet in kid's rooms.

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Fair enough. I'm not that paranoid though. I've actually set the "recordings" to off just cause we mainly view the live feed only.

I believe that's part of canary's charm is they use 256 encryption vs Nest using 128 or something but meh.

I do have a Nest protect and it's the coolest smoke/co detector I've seen. Wish it had a temp sensor on it though.

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I do have a Nest protect and it's the coolest smoke/co detector I've seen. Wish it had a temp sensor on it though.

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I was reading some intriguing use cases that if there were a fire or smoke and the nest detected it AND you had a nest thermostat it would shut it off so you're not circulating the smoke, etc. Also it would trigger the cameras to record in case something bad happened.

It's an intriguing use case but hope to God you never have to ever use that 'feature'.

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Is it bad that I don't even care to store the video? I don't really have much need for using them for security currently

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I understand your logic and I thought the same thing but consider if you ever go somewhere on vacation and aren’t able to get notifications or want to access old footage for a neighbor who had their car vandalized, etc. it’s good to have the ability to store footage if needed

As for connectivity, I’m on 2.4 ghz with ATT and have about 18 down when it’s all said and done. The router is about 10 feet from the camera so connection is close however, I have other things pulling wireless so it’s always a competition for bandwidth. With that said, it’s still pretty good.

The app is pretty good and opens pretty quickly however I will say if I attempt to scroll to fast through previous footage or jump to a specific event further back, it can lag or freeze for a moment but it’s only isolated instances.

One other thing to know is that while it’s not a huge deal, alert fatigue will happen at some point. I have created zones for my camera outside so it doesn’t pick up cars going down the street but inevitably, it still does and send a notification it thinks it’s spoetted someone. Another annoyance is that it will pick up lights from cars in that zone. For example, if that portion of the zone is dark but a car light shines on it and brightens it, the camera recognizes that as actovty and will send a notification. Just something to consider with the notifications.

Overall, I’m happy with the app and camera. My wife likes it too as it’s easier for her to navigate and that’s really the end goal for me since she doesn’t always like technology.

Just curious on the nest cam. When you load the live video, about how long does it take to load? 5 seconds?

My Canary can be anywhere from 5-10 seconds or simply not load. How is the delay, maybe 2-3 seconds?

I love Canary cams! They look like speakers at first glance. It's one of our choices when still finding a monitor for my toddlers. But ended up getting a different brand. I read this post that its sensors are a bit too sensitive, though the recordings are immaculately clear, which ofcourse, is more impt.

There's nothing faulty I can find with nest. We have the Nest thermostat. Ours went up and running very smoothly, the installation was quick. But later on we found out it can't work with our apple homekit (since it's owned by google), But overall, got no grudges against Nest.

I am about to start framing my new house, and will be running wires for outdoor security cams, and possibly even a few indoors. I have a Nest thermostat at my current house and would love to continue my Nest ecosystem.

My concern is that running the Nest wiring would keep me married to Nest for the forseeable future. If I pre wired for a traditional PoE system, then as cameras get better, I can plug and play for as long as PoE is in use. I love Nest, but I am afraid of being boxed in to where 5-10 years from now I will have to retrofit if I want to change hardware.