- [Steve] Nest is upgrading their camera line
in 2021.
In today's video,
we're gonna be taking a look
at the brand new Nest Cam battery,
and then also the new Nest Doorbell.
We're gonna be talking about their features,
seeing how well they perform.
So stay tuned.
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Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to another video.
My name is Steve,
from the YouTube channel, Steve DOES.
And I want to thank you for joining me here
at Reviews.org
So Nest is coming out with some new cameras.
Finally.
This has been highly anticipated
since they came out with their cameras
probably two, three years ago,
and we're really looking forward to seeing
what Nest is gonna be doing,
especially with all of the new competition
out there.
Now in total Nest is coming out
with four new products in their camera line.
In today's video,
we are gonna be taking a look
at the Nest Cam battery,
and we're gonna also be taking a look at
the Nest Doorbell battery.
These are the first two products
that they released in their camera line
with the other two being a coming soon release.
And those are going to be
the Nest Cam with floodlights,
and the Nest Cam indoor wired.
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So, as I mentioned earlier,
these products are now battery powered.
Nest is finally catching up
with all the competition,
and putting batteries inside of their products.
Now, in addition to coming up to speed
with batteries inside of their cameras,
they've also got some included features
with these cameras
that don't require a subscription,
which is kind of unique
for one of the big box brands out there.
Some of these features include things like
processing the footage locally on the camera.
So no longer are you having to send footage
up to the cloud for it to be processed,
and then coming back down,
and getting notifications.
Everything is actually going to be processed
locally on these devices,
and that is going to be at no extra charge.
We're also going to be getting things like
intelligent alerts.
This is going to provide things like alerts
for people, animal vehicles.
In addition to that,
they've also got familiar face.
Now the interesting with this familiar face
technology is that they recommend
to use this technology that you have
your camera about six and a half feet up
because that is gonna get the perfect angle
for them to do a face recognition.
When they do a face recognition,
it'll alert you of who that person is
if it can tell,
either it's gonna say it's an unknown person,
or in my case it may say you know,
"Steve is at the front door."
If I go in and ring the doorbell,
or if I'm walking around in my backyard,
and the Nest Cam battery recognizes me,
it may say you know,
"Steve was detected in the backyard."
But six and a half feet is not very high.
I mean to me that's easily grabble
for somebody to come and pull this off.
I personally mounted the outdoor cam
up on my eaves,
which is about nine feet.
I feel it's a little bit better
for somebody to coming and grabbing it.
So this familiar face feature
doesn't work all of the time,
but it works I would say most of the time,
even with it being up little bit higher.
Now another cool free bee with these products
right here is that you get
three free hours of cloud storage.
So you don't have to get a subscription
if you don't want to,
you can still go back and look at recordings,
but it only lasts three hours.
Now, ideally that sounds good.
You know free anything is better than nothing
I guess,
but three hours actually isn't that much.
If something happens in the middle of the night,
and I don't check my camera
in that first three hours,
I am going to lose that footage.
I'm not gonna have that footage anymore.
So ideally you are going to want to sign up
for a subscription with these cameras,
and let's go ahead and talk about
those subscriptions right now.
So the Nest Aware subscription can be looked
at two ways,
either the worst value out there,
or one of the best values out there.
It all depends on I guess
on how many cameras that you have,
because if you have just one camera
or unlimited cameras,
it's going to cost you the same amount.
And that is it's going to be $6
for the basic Nest Aware subscription,
and that is going to give you 30 days
of event-based recording.
$6 is for one camera or all cameras.
Now, if you want to bump that up,
you can get the Nest Aware Plus,
that's going to be $12 a month,
and you are going to get 60 days
of event-based recording,
and 10 days of 24/7 recording.
So if you've got more than two cameras,
this is a huge savings right here.
I mean 10 days of 24/7 recording
is an incredible deal,
and something that I would highly recommend
for anybody to check out.
Because out of all of the cameras
that I have tested over the years,
not only on Reviews.org
but on my channel too,
the one thing that I don't like
about these event-based recording
is sometimes the cameras don't pick up an event.
Somebody walked up to my door.
Somebody ran across the yard.
something happened to where it should
have picked it up and recorded it,
but it didn't,
and it always seems to be the ones
that I wanna back and look at.
For some reason it didn't record that time,
but with 24/7 recording, it doesn't matter.
As long as you're within that 10 days,
it doesn't matter if it got triggered or not,
you can still go back,
and look at anything that happened,
and you can look at the whole clip
of something that happened.
You know the five minutes leading up
to whatever it was,
and the five minutes afterwards,
whatever you need,
you have it there with that 24/7 recording.
And to me I absolutely love that.
So to be able to get that on your cameras
for $12 a month,
to me is just a great steal right there,
and something that makes these cameras stand out
from any other cameras.
Now, there are a couple of things
to keep in mind with 24/7 recording.
First of all,
it does not work on the video doorbell,
which is very unfortunate.
If you got the older Nest Hello Doorbell,
that one had the option for 24/7 recording.
Because the new doorbell,
and with its built-in battery,
for some reason is not capable
of 24/7 recording anymore.
Google came out with an announcement,
and apparently said there were overheating issues
with the new doorbell battery
that is causing it to not to do 24/7 recording.
So regardless if you wire this up or not,
that is not going to be option.
If you need 24/7 recording,
you're gonna want to get
the older Nest Hello Doorbell.
Now with the Nest Cam,
if you do want to do 24/7 recording,
you can not do that off the battery.
You do have to have it plugged in.
So do keep that in mind,
even though I mentioned in the subscription
that the 24/7 recording
is just absolutely amazing.
There are some requirements to get that working.
All right.
Now that we've gone over the features,
and the subscriptions,
let's go ahead,
and take a look at what comes in the boxes
for each of these cameras.
Look at this monster right here.
So here is the doorbell itself.
Got a nice big button on here.
We've got the Google little logo right there.
Take a look at the back,
we've got a USB-C to charge it up.
We've go our wire connectors.
If you do want to wire this thing right here.
Inside the rest of the box,
we've also got the mount here.
We've got a template
if we need to mark some holes.
We have got our wedge.
So this is gonna be if we do need to angle it
or not,
we can put the wedge in right there to angle it.
Here is our power cable.
We've got our instruction guide.
This is going to be to unlock
or unhook the doorbell from the mount right here.
You're going to put that right in the top.
And then we've got a box here.
This box is full of the anchors and screws,
and it looks like cushions right here.
And then we've also got some wire extenders
in there.
All right.
We've got all of the basics in the box here.
We've got our camera itself.
We've got a getting started guide.
We've got the mounts,
that's if you want to mount it to the house.
We've got our screws and anchors back here.
We've got our power cable,
and this is going to be a USB powered cable.
And then we've got our brick here.
All right.
Now that you've seen what comes
in these boxes.
Let's go ahead and take a look at some demo shots
of what these cameras are capable of.
All right.
We are testing out both of these cameras
right now.
It's a beautiful sunny day outside.
I'm about 10 feet away,
and this is what it looks,
and sounds like in the back
all the way up.
And it get to be about 20, 25 feet away.
I want you guys listened to what it sounds like?
I'm about 25 feet away
from the camera now,
but that is what it sounds like.
We have a nice bright sunny day.
So let's take a look now
at what this camera is going
to look like in the evening.
All right.
So it is finally evening.
The sun is setting.
We got some good shade back here.
I wanna show you guys what these cameras
looks like when it's not blaring sun
in my eyes right here.
So here is the shot from about 10 feet away
from the cameras right now.
We'll walk all the way back up before
so you guys can listen to me,
and then just see what it looks like
from a little bit further away.
So about 25 feet all the way back here,
and let's go ahead,
and get up a little bit to closer.
So now I'm about 15 feet away
from both of these cameras right here.
What do you guys think?
Okay.
It is dark out here.
I can barely see anything,
but hopefully you guys can see me okay.
Back to being in about 10 feet away.
This is what the camera looks like at night time.
I'll take a step back,
and we'll walk back up to it.
(footsteps thudding)
All right.
So that's what the camera looks like.
Camera is about nine feet right now.
Just to give you guys some perspective
of the camera,
but this is what the night shots look like.
All right.
So what'd you think of the demos of the Nest Cam?
I thought that they were actually really good,
and considering it that this is only
a two megapixel camera,
and shooting at 10 ADP.
It doesn't have that beefy eight megapixel
4k sensor that the older version did.
So I'm really impressed
with the quality of this camera is producing.
Okay.
Now let's take a look at the demos
of the doorbell.
All right.
Were testing out the audio,
and video of this doorbell.
I'm about four or five feet away from it.
You can clearly see all around me.
We've got helicopters.
We've got leaf blowers,
and lots of noise going on around.
Curious if you guys are hearing that
on this also?
But this is what it looks
like during the day time.
We'll take a look at an evening shot
when this isn't so bright to behind me.
And then also a night shot
at what this camera can do.
All right.
Now we are out here checking out an evening
shot with this camera.
My porch light just turned on right there.
You can see that this is not as blown out
behind me.
This is what an evening shot looks like.
Typically these cameras look the best
with this kind of lighting right here.
Next, we're gonna take a look
at a night shot to see
what this camera is capable of.
All right.
We are testing out the doorbell now
at night time.
Obviously, this is what it looks like
with all of the lights off right now.
I can see two red lights on the front
for their infrared lighting,
but this is what it looks like.
What do you guys think of this night vision?
All right.
So what do you guys think
of the demos of that doorbell?
During the daytime shots
when I had the bright house behind me,
I didn't like that I was all shaded.
You couldn't see me that well,
everything was too bright behind me.
I feel like the HDR wasn't working too well
on this camera.
When it got to be an evening shot,
and the house wasn't as bright,
the quality looks really good.
At nighttime I thought the same.
I thought the quality looked good
on these cameras.
So overall I was satisfied with the doorbell.
I didn't think it was amazing,
but it wasn't bad either.
What did you guys think
of both of these demos with the camera,
and the doorbell?
Let me know in the comments below.
Now my overall thoughts
on both of these cameras here
is that they're both pretty good.
I have never tested any camera
that is perfect when it comes to all categories.
Now, these cameras
are a little bit more on the expensive side
compared to their competitors out there,
but the subscription fees,
you're getting a lot more out of it,
especially if you have multiple cameras.
So overall,
I like these cameras right here.
It's gonna be up to you
to decide if this is the right thing.
And I hope this video helped you
make that decision.
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about the Nest products
or any other security cameras,
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