IQ Wired Outdoor Security Camera | 2 Pack

At this price and at this size and the heft of these cameras the least u culd do was make them wireless. I had to return bc I absolutely REFUSE to drill any hole AT ALL IN MY DARN HOUSE ESPECIALLY ON THE OUTSIDE OF IT for an almost 700 hundred dollar purchase. If it was wireless that'd b a no brainier n I wuld of be happy with it outright bc it's the best on the market yes indeed it is and has the amberella chip as well. But u have got to make them Wireless for ease of use and convenient install with NO NEED TO DRILL A HOLE IN SOMEONES HOME then u gotta fill that hole to so no bugs get it. Wireless!!!Wireless!!Wireless!!!

Anyone thinking about or interested in home security cameras my recommendation is Nest IQ series all the way. I've done extensive research on just about every brand of camera there is. From Arlo, to Ring, to DVR systems and more. For me it came down to 1 main factor which was application design and control. Nest is owned by Google and with that comes a beautifully designed and solid application. Features such as face recognition, zone alerts, to pan follow are just some of the few things that will impress you right off the back. Nest uses 24/7 cloud recording so you never miss a thing and can easily skim through recordings with a breeze with the help of activity thumbnails. One big note you need solid reliable internet service. No DSL or low bandwidth speeds will work with this and your Internet service provider better not have data caps because each camera alone can set you back 400 Gigs of upload a month when set to high quality. At minimum you will need 100 Mbps download and 20 MBPS upload. This also depends on how many devices are used inside the house. Lastly Nest charges for cloud recording storage and they are the higher priced product. Prices start from $5 a month for 5 days of recording storage, $10 a month for 10 days of storage, or $30 a month for 30 days of storage with a bit of discount if you pay yearly on either plan. All said and done you get what you pay for. The product is very well made and you get quality of Google design and support.Updated review after few months of use. As a new camera with not much use and troubleshooting I was sold on Next. I mean it's Google and I have a lot of their products. But, ya that didn't last long. First off there is such a HUGE issue with all outdoor cameras that they are as good as useless!! Every top notch Youtube reviewer fails to note this deal breaker issue which really really frustrates me to the max. I mean had just one person told me this I would have steered far and clear from this. I spent countless ours installing and troubleshooting this to find out at the end that this is a known but and there is no fix for it. What is that bug you ask? The beautiful 3-5 second delayed alert notification. What does that mean ? In plain and simple words ALL and I mean ALL Nest cameras including the Nest Doorbell have a 3-5 second delay. Basically if someone walking right up to one of your cameras and stand under it you will not receive a notification for a good 3-5 seconds!! At first I thought no way is this bug I must be doing something wrong. So the Network Engineer in me decided to rip my home network apart and build it from scratch. I upgraded my ISP speed to 400down and 20 up, I setup dual band WIFI with static routing and QOS priority to both Doorbell and 1 IQ camera I had and even purchased a managed switch so I can unplug everything behind my WIFI router so it can only be dedicated to WIFI only. A whole week later guess what? Same issue 3-5 second delay. At this point I was convinced issue was from Nest and after another week or so troubleshooting with Next I get the famous "3-5 second delay in alert is actually considered normal sir" Wait what? I told them this is a useless product then because how can they call this normal? If someone breaks into your house you are wont be notified 5 seconds later right? The whole purpose of notification is to be alerted the second soomeone enteres your property isn't it? I mean I can't even say thank you to my mailman because by the time I get the alert and go to my camera he's already out of my yard and halfway down the sidewalk! I already had 2 people walk in my yard and again by the time I logged in after the alert they were both gone. One left an advertisement on my car and the other was a kid and though it would be fun to ride his bike in my yard. But, I can't do nothing I have a Nest IQ camera and Nest Doorbell by the time I get the notification they are all gone. Long story short do not waste your time or money Nest dropped the ball so bad on this and again very sad that no one writes a real review about this.

4K is a great idea, but only if you have fiber optic internet services. Otherwise, your camera will not work properly. It records at such high resolution that it creates bulk amounts of video data to send back and forth from the cloud to your app. If you do not have at least 50MPBS up and down, you will not like this product.

I will first say that I did not purchase these cameras here at Amazon. Although I have been a loyal Amazon customer for many years, the porch pirates had me skeptical about having a $600 item delivered to my front porch since I live alone and work full-time. Most (not all) Amazon carriers are cognizant about leaving stuff fairly hidden from public view but there are those few who are in such a hurry, they don't pay attention. so I ended up buying them for the exact same price at Best Buy.... moving onThe installation was actually very simple. The cable is pretty long so I just had to drill a small hole to run the cable into the garage for power. But there a couple of things that I wasn't happy about that I discovered during and after installation: first, the image quality is amazing. The picture is very clear and it also records audio (you need to check with your local state laws about audio recording - these cameras do have that feature, and they capture clearly what a person is saying who is just walking by on the sidewalk, but this may or may not be legal depending on where you live.) The cameras also have a wide variety of settings that can be customized. The one feature I do like, but doesn't seem to work properly is the zoning. You can set a "zone" in the frame of what you want it to notify you of when there is movement within that "zone" - so far, it notifies me of EVERYTHING in the frame, even cars driving by which is NOT in the zone that I set up. The camera is above my garage door and points to my cars in the driveway and I set it up to not notify me of movement outside of the zone, but it still does. It also has a feature were it zooms in on people which is great if someone is near my car, but it does that to people who are just walking by too (and out of the "zone").It also has a feature where you can name a familiar face and uncheck the familiar face in the notifications settings, but it still does. Great concept but so far doesn't work that well. So between people just walking by, cars driving by, and neighborhood cats, I get about 50 notices a day. And I have all these things set up to not be notified of yet it still does. My neighbor's driveway is outside of the zone for the camera that faces my front door but I still get a notice of him coming and going as being in the "zone" when it's not.The one thing that I was a little disappointed with is the swivel feature. The camera advertises the capability of rotating 360 degrees, which it does do. What it doesn't tell you is that the frame does NOT auto adjust to normal landscape view. Like on an iPhone, when you rotate the camera, the video will adjust to the setting it was recorded in, I thought these would do the same, but they don't. So if you rotate the camera upside-down or sideways, as I needed to to be able to install in a corner, the frame rotates with the camera. So unless you are ok with tilting your head sideways to look at the video correctly or plan on monitoring while laying down, this is a useless feature. The idea of swivel and rotating is great for installation convenience, but what is the purpose of tilting the camera if the frame is going to tilt with it and so is your head when you watch? I ended up attaching the cameras to a wooden block with a 30 degree slant so I can get the angle I needed without tilting the frame. A little extra work but not a huge deal for me. Just be aware of that.

Easy to setup just a little difficult to mount camera to base when you are on a extension ladder.

Works pretty good but I'm having minor problems with it and cannot get answers. But nothing major though

Great product. Easy to install. Good app.

Great