It's so horrible, in more ways than I would have imagined that a camera could possibly suck, that it's completely redefined my understanding of awful.
It's caused me to rethink many other purchases way outside of the category, from blenders to TVs to cars.
Absolutely don't ever buy a Nest product, unless your aim is to do experimental anitmaterialism therapy.
There is also Nest Aware which can let you enable alerts/emails that you get when activity/motion/sound happens when you are gone (it will use your phone or other devices to detect when you leave.) You can also disable the cameras when you are home, if you are one of those paranoid people.
I am not paid or affiliated with Nest at all. I just have two cameras that I use mainly to watch my two cats. They have been great for my use. I have gigabit internet. I have not had any issues.
You know you have a problem when you have to put a wifi access point next to the camera to get it to stay online.
I may be mistaken, but I don't think you can downvote replies to your comments.
I genuinely did ask because I wanted to know. Even though my experience has been great, if there are say security problems I wasn't aware of or really poor customer service, I'd be keen to hear! (I'm considering buying more and would very much rather not if it's not that great, I'm a very new customer)
• Fundamentally idiotic design - can't save video except to ridiculously overpriced Nest cloud service.
• Browser UI requires Adobe Flash.
• Camera software (on both iOS and in browser) eventually will stall, showing what seems to be a live image but is actually a still image from when it crashed hours ago.
• Other times, camera view will gradually drift behind, so that what you see is actually several minutes behind real-time.
• You can set time zone, but only for regions (not many) that Nest marketing has approved, so when you take the camera on travels, its several hours off. E.g. I took it to Japan but the closest time zone I could set it to was Saudi Arabia. (WTF is wrong with these people? How is it possible to decide on that outcome when you have written a software UI to set the fucking time zone?)
• Camera hardware unit crashes every once in a while and becomes unresponsive until power yanked / rebooted.
• Completely unintelligent about returning to a previous location -- you have to do the weird bluetooth-and-QR-code dance every single time you bring the camera back home.
• If you don't sign up for the stupid $300/year cloud service, then you get ads for it in the UI.
• Die Nest, die die die die die. (Yes, I root for them to go out of business, even though that would mean that my stupid cloud-dependent camera would cease working entirely...)