nest finally made a camera with a battery inside but when I was testing it
i was surprised at the quality of the 1080p resolution. I'm going to explain some of
the camera's standout features, and what you should definitely consider before buying it.
The camera comes with a magnetic mounting plate for outdoors and it's strong. Like the strongest
one we've ever tested! An indoor charging cord is also included. They promoted it as an indoor
outdoor camera and I guess you could use it inside, but you have to buy an indoor mount
separately. Most people will probably use this outdoors since it has a battery and it's really
easy to install with no wiring. If you do want to wire it outside, you'll have to buy their outdoor
cord. Good news this lets you use 24/7 with nest aware plus. Bad news it looks like this. The cord
literally looks like it's plugged in backwards, but trust me it's not and that's why you'll never
see it plugged in for power on nest's website. It's like their little ugly secret. A solar panel
is also available to keep the battery charged. If you're using it on the battery you can only record
events and on the free plan they give you three hours of look-back time. The new battery doorbell
is the same way, and it might be enough for the doorbell but for a security camera, I need more.
For example if someone breaks into your car in the middle of the night, by the time it's morning,
that footage will be gone. This camera only uses the google home app, not the nest app anymore.
But I did like how I can view multiple live nest camera streams at the same time. Battery
life depends on how much use the camera gets, but you'll need to take it down to charge it. The good
news is it's really easy to take down to recharge, and when you're pulling it down it's not giving
you a bunch of notifications and event recordings. But wait what if someone's stealing it?
Uh nest you should probably rethink this and if you're a criminal just forget anything you heard.
Actually nest sells an anti-theft mount that you can add on and if someone actually does steal it,
nest will replace it. Now let's take a look at what the video recordings look like.
The field of view is 130 degrees and not the widest I've seen for security cameras.
The night vision was very clear, even from a distance. It has HDR and the image looks good,
especially since this is only 1080p. I compared it with another 1080p wireless camera from Eufy. When
I'm standing close to the camera, both look pretty similar. Once I move back you can start to see
a difference, but when I'm near the street they look way different. The Eufy camera is very blocky
and I cannot read the license plate anymore. With nest I can still see the characters on the plate.
This is surprising because they're both the same resolution, but not all 1080p is created equal.
Now if you compare the same footage with a Reolink 4k camera, it's night and day different. A lot
of people were comparing this new nest cam battery with the nest cam IQ that had a 4k
sensor. Here's the thing though, the nest cam IQ only records in 1080p, so you're just missing out
and how much you can zoom in the app. Ring has an outdoor battery camera with a light on it,
but Ring is missing a few things that this camera has, like HDR and better AI. This
new nest cam can detect people, vehicles, and animals. It does all this locally on the camera,
including the activity zones. This improves the speed of notifications since it's not dealing
with the cloud, and it makes these features free. Another edge this camera has over Ring
is that if the internet is down, it can record up to one hour of footage locally on the camera. This
could last you a couple of days, or even up to a week without internet, and keep in mind the PoE 4k
cameras I mentioned earlier do not have two-way voice. This nest cam does, and it sounds good.
This is what the speaker sounds like on the nest cam battery. This camera is priced at 180 dollars,
and they actually have two more versions coming soon: a more expensive floodlight cam,
and a less expensive indoor cam. So as you can see this nest cam battery has some standout features.
The footage looks good for 1080p, it has HDR and I like that it has local recording if the internet
is down. With a magnetic mount and battery, this is going to be really easy to set up and use.
I'll probably think twice about wiring it because of how it looks. But of course using it on battery
will limit you to event recording and not 24/7. But as i explained in my nest doorbell battery
video nest event recording works really well. They have up to three minute clips,
almost no cooldown between the event recordings, and a powerful AI. The three hour limit is just
not enough for a real security camera, so you should probably plan on paying for nest aware for
this one. Make sure you're following the channel for more videos like this! Thanks for watching.
Reed you haven't spoken in three days what's going on? Fine I'll tell you what I've been thinking
about. It's the nest cam power cord. I can't stop thinking about it. Why would they design it like
this? There must be some kind of deeper meaning, I can't figure it out! Seriously it's about that?!