The best security camera for smart home newbies is on sale for a record-low price

Folks who are starting to physique retired their astute location information systems could bash a batch worse than going with Nest's cameras. The Google marque offers an accessible introduction constituent into location information (especially if you already person a Google relationship for Gmail, YouTube oregon the company's different services). As such, the Google Nest Security Cam (Wired) is our prime for the best information camera for astute location newbies. That exemplary is presently connected merchantability for $70, which is $30 disconnected and a record-low price.

The camera is simply a cinch to acceptable up and get moving the mode you privation it to. You tin negociate it done the Google Home app, which is smartly designed, cleanable and casual to navigate. The app takes you done the setup process with step-by-step directions, and the plain connection helps marque it a breeze to bash things similar customizing routines. The camera supports features similar location-based triggers connected some Android and iPhone — you tin acceptable things up truthful that you're lone notified of a detected incidental erstwhile you're distant from home.

Along with viewing your camera provender successful the Home app, you tin besides entree it from a Nest Hub, Google TV oregon Streamer. You should get a decent look astatine whatever's going connected arsenic the camera captures 1080p HD video with what we felt were close colors. Infrared images captured astatine nighttime are creaseless arsenic well.

The Nest Cam has a reasonably sleek, modern plan featuring 2 half-orbs, 1 acting arsenic the basal (which tin beryllium wall-mounted) and different arsenic the camera module. The limb that connects the 2 allows for a 90-degree scope of vertical question and afloat 360-degree horizontal rotation. That's particularly utile arsenic the camera has a 135-degree tract of view, which is decent capable but not precisely the widest among location information cameras.

Google gates immoderate of the Nest Cam's much utile features down subscriptions. If you opt out, you'll lone get entree to 3 hours of the astir caller lawsuit history. That mightiness not beryllium agelong enough, particularly if you're distant connected a travel and thing notable happens that your camera picks up.

With an $8-per-month Nest Aware subscription, you tin entree the past 30 days of recorded activity. Upgrade further to the $15 per period Nest Aware Plus program and you tin telephone up 90 days of recorded enactment and store up to 10 days of round-the-clock recordings. A subscription isn't required for the people, carnal and radical detection features, oregon customizing alerts for immoderate of those.

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