Gabe Turner: Hey folks, this is Gabe with Security Baron.
We've seen a lot of what Nest has to offer on the inside of the house.
Let's see what it's got for the outside with the Nest Outdoor Cam.
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Gabe: I'm excited to jump into this review of the Nest Outdoor Cam with this Google Assistant
and Amazon Alexa integrations.
Putting it to the Security Baron necessary features test before finally jumping into
its mobile application.
You have all the information you need to make the right decision.
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Gabe: Let's put the Nest Camp Outdoor to the Security Baron necessary features test.
Here at Security Baron, we think that every camera should have stellar video quality,
two-way audio, night vision, local and cloud storage, smart platform integration, artificial
intelligence, convenience, and value.
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Gabe: A Security Baron necessary feature is stellar video quality.
What that means concretely, you'd like to see at least 1080p high-definition video,
and a 120-degree field of view.
Now, with the Nest Cam Outdoor, we get both of those things.
It has that lovely 1080p high-definition video.
It actually surpasses what we expect, and it gives us a 130-degree field of view.
That's important, especially with the outdoor cam, because you may be covering an entire
yard, just a particular part of the fence that you have a certain worry about.
You want to make sure it's capturing everything.
Then, once you're capturing that, you can actually zoom up to eight times with the digital
zoom that comes with the Nest Cam Outdoor.
Overall, it definitely passes the Security Baron necessary features stellar video quality
test with full marks.
Two-way audio is a Security Baron necessary feature.
Fortunately, the Nest Cam Outdoor does come with two-way audio.
The website itself has tons of videos of people using the Nest Outdoor Cam to scare away intruders.
Yu can do this if someone jumps into your backyard, and you want to yell at them, "Hey."
You can do so with the Nest Cam Outdoor, so it passes that element of the Security Baron
necessary features test with full marks.
A Security Baron necessary feature is night vision.
You want that night vision to be crisp and clear.
Let me tell you something.
Growing up back down in the South, I can never remember anyone hopping a fence anytime in
the middle of the night.
Maybe that's just because I couldn't see them because I didn't have the Nest Cam Outdoor
with its eight infrared LEDs that ensures that anything that goes on, on your porch,
in your yard, in your front yard, anywhere, is going to be captured by this camera.
When it comes to night vision and the Security Baron necessary features test, we have to
give the Nest Cam Outdoor full marks.
Local cloud storage is an element of the Security Baron necessary features test and the first
place where the Nest Cam Outdoor begins to falter.
There is no local storage option, but it does come with three hours of free cloud storage.
Now, if you want to extend that cloud storage, it's going to cost you just five dollars a
month for five days or $50 a year, $10 a month for 10 days or $100 a year, or $30 a month
for 30 days and $300 a year.
When it comes to local storage- not available -- and cloud storage, being a bit pricey -- we're
going to give it half marks for local and cloud storage in the Security Baron necessary
features test.
Smart Platform Integration is an integral part of the Security Baron necessary features
test, and with the Nest Cam Outdoor, you actually get a lot.
You can not only attach it to your Google Assistant -- which one would expect considering
Nest is owned by Google, full disclosure -- but it also integrates well with Amazon Alexa.
That means, that of course, that you can throw your video from your Nest Cam Outdoor to your
Google Chromecast, but it also means that you can throw your video to your Amazon Fire
TV.
Not only can you integrate it with those two elements, but you can also attach it to things
like your Philips Hue lightbulbs.
If it captures something outside, some motion alert, you can have it flick on [snaps] a
Phillips Hue lightbulb on your porch.
When it comes to Smart Platform Integration with the Nest Cam Outdoor, we're definitely
giving it full marks.
A Security Baron necessary feature is artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence refers to things like person detection, package detection or facial
recognition.
If you order the Nest Aware subscription with your Nest Outdoor Cam, you get all of that
built-in.
You can get person detection, familiar face recognition.
That's a useful element to have with your home security system, so you can know exactly
what's going on inside and with the Nest Outdoor Cam outside of your home.
When it comes to artificial intelligence and the Security Baron necessary features test,
we're giving the Nest Cam Outdoor full marks.
Convenience is a Security Baron necessary feature.
You want your installation process to be convenient, and you want just using the camera itself
to be convenient.
Fortunately for us and the Nest Cam Outdoor, convenience is the name of the game.
Now, when you're installing the Nest Cam Outdoor, you'll take it, unbox it, plug it in, take
out that Nest mobile application, use the QR code to scan it, and boom, they are integrated.
You'll of course connect it to your Internet and you're ready to go at least for the first
part.
Of course, that extra element with the Outdoor Cam is making sure it's properly installed
where we like it to be on your roof area or above a door.
With this it's pretty straightforward because it is magnetic.
Not only is it magnetic here, but it's also magnetic here.
If you have a have a magnetic surface, you can actually just place it and boom, you are
finished.
You are ready to go.
You're watching what's happening.
If you don't and you would like to use the screws that it comes with, you can anchor
them here and put them directly into the wall.
When you're talking about length, it's also pretty straightforward.
You've got 10 feet here and a 15-foot extension right here.
When you're setting up the little Nest Outdoor Cam just make sure you're close enough to
an outlet and with 25 feet you should be to make sure you're getting it without any real
pull on the cord.
Overall, in terms of setting it up, it's an absolute breeze.
Even using it on a day-to-day basis, it's simple because it's the same Nest mobile application
that you use with your Nest Secure home security system or your Nest Hello or your Nest Cam
Indoor.
You get the idea.
It's a really robust easy-to-use intuitive mobile application.
When it comes to convenience with the Nest Cam Outdoor, got to give it full marks.
Value is a Security Baron a necessary feature.
With the Nest Cam Outdoor, yeah, you're paying $199, but you're also getting a weather-proof
marathon machine.
I'm talking you've got -4 to 104, dust-proof, snow-proof, rain-proof.
That's pretty impressive for a camera.
If it's going to stand up to the elements, I'm OK to pay for that robustness.
That's what you want in your Outdoor Cam.
When you talk about the features that also come with it in terms of its Amazon Alexa
Google assistant integrations, the fact that you can do two-way audio, get that 1080p and
130-degree field of view, that's a ton of value.
I understand you're paying $5 to $30 more each month to get the full value in terms
of facial recognition and cloud storage, but hey, I think it's still worth it.
We're talking about a machine that could really provide everything you need to help keep you
and your family safe.
Overall, when it comes to value for the Nest Cam Outdoor, I'm giving it full marks.
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Now that we've run through the Security Baron's necessary features test, let's check out the
mobile application for the Nest Cam Outdoor.
Mobile applications are important for your cameras because it is here where you'll receive
notifications, view your cloud storage, and just generally work through your apps.
You want it be an intuitive easy experience.
In the Google Play Store, people seem to have really liked their experience with Nest.
It's got a 3.8 out of 5-star rating.
In the Apple App Store, it falls flat.
Over 200 reviews and it only has a 2.2 rating.
I will note that this is for every Nest product in the ecosystem.
It's not just a Nest Cam application by itself rather it's for all Nest products.
Actually here, I have anecdotal experience that runs counter.
I actually feel like it's a pretty easy experience setting up and using the Nest app with my
Nest Outdoor Cam.
Let's go out and check that out on my iPhone 10.
Here I am checking out the Nest Cam Outdoor and the Nest mobile application on my iPhone
10.
You'll note that I started out in the area that tells you about the various events.
We've already talked about getting person and motion detection alerts.
That's really the artificial intelligence element of the Nest Cam Outdoor.
We've put it up today for a little bit of a different view.
We've put it up in Brooklyn and you'll note it's very busy.
In just past five minutes, you got five different events.
Person, cars and you can see what's happening right now.
If we put this down, we could zoom in and see what's happening.
We can talk to whoever's outside.
If I look into the top right corner, here are my various options.
I have to click that settings, and you can do a lot here.
Let's go ahead, and take it one by one.
Of course, cameras on and off.
You can do Home/Away Assist.
This is very interesting because it automatically turns the camera on and off, depending on
your phone's location.
If you decide to turn it on, it'll turn off the camera when you're home, and it'll make
sure it's on when you're away.
Let's see what that look's like.
If I go out of here completely.
Get out of the app, and go to the home page for the camera, you'll see it gives me the
Nest logo.
I'm at Fortress Baron, gives me the weather, 47 degrees and cloudy today, but let's go
ahead and say that I'm home, and see what happens to that visual that we have right
below.
Now, I'm home, and my camera is off.
I have turned it on to see the live video, but instead of turning it on here, let's go
back to Settings, Home/Away Assist, and turn that off, so now it stays on 24/7.
Let's say I don't mind being watched all the time.
If I want to go into notifications, I could decide whatever notifications I get.
Of course, I can go into Family, add anyone I'd like to the family plan so they can see
what's happening.
For Contacts, I can add an emergency contact.
Then, we've got Nest Aware.
With Nest Aware, you, of course, can know when people are there, you got your continuous
video history, you got your various types of close-ups, activity zones.
Let's check one of those out.
Let's make an activity zone.
Here we are.
Here I am.
Create the zone.
Let's say that I want to know whenever someone walks over here, by this wall.
Voila.
Let's make it red.
That's my Zone 1.
Let's call it Green Wall.
Anytime anyone walks into that green zone, that activity zone, I'm going to know.
My camera will alert me to that, which is a pretty cool element to have.
Anytime anyone's in that green zone, I'll be notified.
If you look on the screen, it doesn't make any type of difference.
You don't see that activity zone, but you'll definitely get that alert and notification
if someone were to walk into that space.
Here we are.
You can see now that every time there's been motion in that green space, it says "Motion"
and "Green Wall."
"Green Wall."
It's really cool that you can set up an activity zone, and then immediately know when something
is taking place in it, and you've named the activity zone in this particular case, so
you know exactly what's going on.
Of course, another element of the Nest Outdoor Cam beyond these artificial intelligence and
activity zones, is you can set it up with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
Let's jump in to what that looks like.
Here I am checking out the Amazon Alexa integration with the Nest Outdoor Cam.
I take Camera, Nest, Nest Camera, and then I can enable it to use it.
Here, you see, I got to make sure it allows them to work together, so I've linked my two
accounts.
I hit Allow, and boom, my Nest Camera has been successfully linked.
Now, I can speak directly to my Amazon Alexa.
I can say, "Alexa, show me outside," and I'll see outside right on my Amazon Fire TV if
I want to.
That's a really cool element of setting up your Nest Outdoor Cam with Amazon Alexa.
Looking at the Google Home, you'll see that I have a host of devices already in my Nest
ecosystem -- family room/living room speaker, master bedroom speaker, office TV, office
speaker, office cam, and then, various televisions.
If you'll look, here, we have the outside cam.
You'll note these are devices not in a home, and they're outside.
Let me hit that outside cam.
Now, I'm not in the Nest app.
I'm in the Google Home app, and boom, you can go ahead and see right inside that Google
Home app, the view from the Nest Outdoor Cam.
As you can see, they're pretty seamless in terms of integration with Google Assistant,
with Google Home, all of your Nest products.
That's my look at the Nest Outdoor Cam on my iPhone 10.
Here I am checking out that 1080p high-definition video with a 130-degree field of view on the
Nest Cam Outdoor.
It looks pretty good.
Go ahead.
Give it a nice little globe test.
You get a good shot and you can see what's happening here.
We got the subcontinent, South Asia, and Asia itself very well-represented today.
Checking it out.
A big fan.
Love the way we got it looking.
This is what it's like when you have 1080p on the Nest Cam Outdoor.
Here I am checking out the Night Vision on the Nest Cam Outdoor.
Got eight infrared LEDs.
Look at that globe test.
You can see what's going on very well here.
Got a little bit of Africa, a little bit of South America.
Turn it back and forth.
Checking it out.
Zoom it in.
It's pretty good, pretty good.
Look, you can see what's happening here.
What are you talking about?
Here I am.
Night vision.
So that's the Night Vision on the Nest Cam Outdoor.
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Gabe: Let's recap how the Nest Cam Outdoor performed on the Security Baron Necessary
Features test.
Stellar video quality, full marks.
The Nest Cam Outdoor has 1080 high-definition video and a 130-degree field of view.
Two-way audio, full marks.
The Nest Cam Outdoor makes it easy to listen and speak to anyone you might want to outside.
Night vision, full marks.
The Nest Cam Outdoor has eight infrared LEDs to make sure you're not missing anything,
no matter how dark it is.
Local and cloud storage, half marks.
The Nest Cam Outdoor does not have a local storage option, and while you get three free
hours of cloud storage, you could upgrade that with Nest Aware.
Smart platform integration, full marks.
The Nest Aware integrates with both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
Artificial intelligence, full marks.
Nest Aware gives the Nest Cam Outdoor the ability to both person-detect and recognize
faces.
Convenience, full marks.
The Nest Cam Outdoor is easy to install, and even easier to use.
Value, full marks.
The Nest Cam Outdoor is a little bit spendy, but definitely brings it home when you're
talking about all the different features that it has.
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Gabe: I've thrown a lot of information at you today.
If you just want to know, "Gabe, is this the right camera for me?"
Well, if you're already a part of the Nest ecosystem, I think it's a no-brainer.
This camera has got an incredible 1080p high-definition video coupled with 130-degree field of view
along with the fact that it's just rather robust.
It's going to last in, basically, any type of weather condition.
I'm a big fan of how it exceeds my expectations for an outdoor camera at its price point of
$199.
Now if you think that you need local storage or you're someone who doesn't want to pay
monthly for extra cloud storage, or facial recognition, then, sure, try out another camera.
You're going to be hard-pressed to find one that will exceed your expectations in the
way that the Nest has exceeded mine.
When it comes to overall outdoor camera, I'm a big fan of the Nest Cam Outdoor.
That concludes our review of the Nest Cam Outdoor.
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