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Google Nest Cam Indoor Smart Security Camera

Best price: £99.00
  • Quick, easy setup. Plug in Nest Cam and download the Nest app t..
  • 24/7 live video. The 130 degree view shows your home in 1080p H..
  • Alerts on your phone. Receive Activity Alerts so that you can s..
  • Clear as day. Even at night. Night Vision evenly illuminates th..
  • Talk and listen. See whos there and respond to get someones att..

Product Attributes

  • Width: 2.9 inches,
  • Height: 4.5 inches,
  • Weight: 0.5 pounds,
  • Length: 2.9 inches,
  • Size: 1 Count (Pack of 1)

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

63.1% 9.4% 27.5%

Senti Score  [72.5%]

Ring Floodlight Cam | HD Security Camera with Built-in Floodlights, ..

  • Works with select Alexa devices to launch real-time video with ..
  • Lets you see, hear and speak to visitors from your phone, table..
  • You'll get a notification as soon as movement is detected.
  • Requires hardwired installation to mains electricity.
  • Monitors your home in 1080p HD video with infrared night vision..

Product Attributes

  • Width: 5.9 inches,
  • Height: 5.9 inches,
  • Weight: 3.0 pounds,
  • Length: 9.8 inches,
  • Size: 1 Count (Pack of 1)

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

64.3% 11.1% 24.6%

Senti Score  [75.4%]

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Google Nest Cam Indoor Smart Security Camera

poor alerting works perfect love quality is great great cheap complete waste brilliant useless best disappointed poor sleepers excellent brilliant piece expensive poor

Ring Floodlight Cam | HD Security Camera with Built-in Floodlights, ..

works perfect weak great cheap extremely frustrating best very disappointed love expensive brilliant absolutely brilliant excellent absolutely perfect poor horrible experience least

Compare Cons

extremely frustrating in both products

"extremely frustrating that tech support couldn't understand this and all they kept saying was "it was working as intended" and saying "we'll have to agree to disagree" when i was saying any security product giving off so many false positives was not good"
99.2%

very disappointed in both products

"not what i expected at all very disappointed"
99.0%

falls short in both products

"as a security camera it also falls short"
75.0%

only gripe in both products

"my only gripe is for a camera it's quite expensive and i think personally the monthly charge is a bit high for the premium service"
74.9%

only issue in both products

"great piece of kit only issue is it does seem to switch it's self off now and again"
74.9%

more expensive in both products

"it’s also more expensive per month so please do not waste your money"
74.8%

false alerts in both products

"that means you don't get the fancy algorithm processing for your video so i constantly get false alerts!"
73.4%

having problems in both products

"i don't consider the nest camera price "disposable" and given that i am not alone in having problems i think nest needs to improve their qc"
73.3%

main problem in both products

"main problem is that if someone with a cell phone is in the room it often fails until they leave"
73.0%

brick walls in both products

"it does not like stone or brick walls"
71.5%

overly sensitive in both products

"the sensors were a little overly sensitive the movement of shadows caused by clouds and sun could trigger an alert"
69.8%

does not work in both products

"also alexa skill does not work i say alexa show living room it flickers but does not work"
69.1%

major flaw in both products

"this is a major flaw with the app"
68.5%

stopped working in both products

"unit started to get extremely hot before it stopped working"
67.8%

very annoying in both products

"very quiet and constant static noise in the background which is very annoying"
55.7%

next to useless in both products

"it's true that these are next to useless with nest aware currently £80 a year for the first cam then £40 per cam after that"
55.3%

complete waste

"if you have a break in and the camera misses the right moment faces or other particularities it was all a complete waste of money"
99.9%

poor alerting

"lack of thought with some features including poor alerting and no secure sharing option"
99.8%

poor sleepers

"expensive but it allowed me to check on my two young children when they slept as both are poor sleepers"
99.8%

total waste

"it has turned out to be a total waste of money without the ability to record!"
99.8%

quite disappointed

"quite disappointed considering all the other nest products i have that work fine"
99.4%

quite ugly

"the only negative is that it looks quite ugly compared to my logicircle but i guess you can't have everything!"
99.2%

really annoying

"doesn't tell you when you move really annoying"
98.8%

quite sluggish

"the video is delayed by about 2second and the app is quite sluggish generally"
98.4%

pretty poor

"pretty poor "
94.6%

fairly redundant

"i don't believe it's possible to export clips when you aren't subscribed which makes the cameras fairly redundant"
94.6%

clear channel

"i sorted the problem by ringing virginia who altered the router remotely and allowed it to auto select a clear channel and since then for the last 2 months the system has been faultless"
90.9%

outrageously expensive

"and the nestaware is outrageously expensive $100 pa!"
89.9%

worst customer service

"so overall i think it's a terrible product and the worst customer service i have every had"
89.8%

waste of space

"i love google and by proxy nest but this device is a waste of space and does not do what it says on the tin reliably enough for us to keep it"
87.8%

slow internet

"i don't have slow wifi or slow internet and for comparison my previous camera would work at 720p resolution perfectly that was its maximum resolution and i can watch youtube and netflix in full 1080p hd with no issues on my connection"
74.9%

useless product

"and without it is a useless product as a security camera"
74.9%

connectivity issues

"the only reason for a 4 star rating and not a 5 star is the connectivity issues we experience with it recording while we are in the house when it should not!"
74.9%

fault them

"the quality and subscription services is amazing i've got two of these one inside and one outside using 3rd party cover and i can't fault them at all"
74.9%

issues and flaws

"i had tried other cheaper cameras all of which had issues and flaws in set up"
74.9%

prohibitively expensive

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
74.9%

ridiculous amount

"i’m not going pay ridiculous amount monthly for it"
74.9%

picture freezing

"furthermore it will frequently suffer from connection problems with the picture freezing or cutting out entirely"
74.8%

ridiculous number

"so let's say you want to schedule all of you cameras coming on for some event you've going to have to tap a ridiculous number of times to setup something that seems like it really should be trivial"
74.8%

very lacking

"it really is a shame as the actual hardware is great and works really well but software is very lacking and the service is inexcusable consider the upfront and ongoing cost"
74.8%

even worse

"update: after a few months of use the camera is even worse than i initially stated"
74.8%

returning them

"we got fed up returning them for replacements and got them all refunded and bought some nest cameras having had a positive experience with the nest outdoor camera we bought not long ago"
74.8%

there lazy

"they so much as lift there lazy fury bums up and i get a notification"
74.8%

spent money

"thieves could rob your house and you will have no evidence and the added frustration of having spent money on a cam"
74.8%

rather disparaging

"i notice meany rather disparaging comments about the cost of monitoring"
74.8%

totally incorrect

"a super quick estimation which could be totally incorrect sees an uncompressed video at a peak rate of 24mbit s yielding 8mb s so 8 * 3600 means 28gb per hour 696gb per day 20tb per month and a whopping 240tb per annum"
74.8%

does n't work

"it works all the time not like the cheap ones that constantly needs a reset it's only expensive if it doesn't work"
74.8%

constant false

"i subscribed to the nest aware subscription after my free month trial ran out but i was completely worn down by the constant false alerts"
74.7%

ridiculously high

"the only downside is of course the ridiculously high cost of the archive service which i've not bothered with i'm afraid"
74.7%

dismiss this

"only issue we have that sometimes it goes off when we are at home for no reason even though are settings dismiss this when we are at home"
74.7%

connection problems

"furthermore it will frequently suffer from connection problems with the picture freezing or cutting out entirely"
74.7%

main issue

"my main issue is that the home away assist function did not work correctly"
74.6%

days storage

"i would have thought 7 days storage foc would have been a good value add"
74.6%

storage subscriptions

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
74.6%

being useless

"the camera freezes the android software is poor to the point of being useless"
74.6%

just rubbish

"this was just rubbish"
74.5%

freezes constantly

"edit camera feed lags and freezes constantly and is often down"
74.5%

pretty useless

"i understand the features of the nest aware subscription but the camera is pretty useless without it so you're forced to take it if you want the camera to be usable"
74.5%

very blurry

"image was very blurry returned"
74.5%

very limited

"great quality product but unfortunately very limited features"
74.4%

exactly as stated

"works exactly as stated"
74.3%

connection errors

"however i still gave it three stars because despite the connection errors the rest of the product is great"
74.3%

negative reviews

"i am now struggling to see how this device gets some of the negative reviews when it works brilliantly"
74.3%

cheap ones

"it works all the time not like the cheap ones that constantly needs a reset it's only expensive if it doesn't work"
74.3%

avoid these

"please save yourself from wasting your time and money and avoid these"
74.3%

sacrificing 1080p

"however it is being used as a granny cam and it is really useful and crucially reliable even in a low wifi signal area as long as you dont mind sacrificing 1080p and can make do with 720p which i can"
74.2%

inferior product

"i understand that they have to make money but there are plenty of other cameras on the market that do offer longer timeframe storage so this makes the nest camera an inferior product sorry to say that"
74.2%

useless addition

"cons: nest back end frequently go off line making this a useless addition"
74.2%

pointless piece

"keeps on losing connection making it a pointless piece of kit"
74.1%

torturous process

"one of the cameras failed after a month and got replaced after a torturous process with customer services and frankly the camera is poor"
73.9%

utter lack

"there's an utter lack of basic features behind the scenes that really becomes apparent after the novelty wears off and then the dent in your wallet starts to really hurt"
73.8%

utterly useless

"the image the camera displays can be 20 30 seconds delayed from real time making it utterly useless in situations where real time monitoring is important"
73.7%

noticeably lower

"my samsung was noticeably lower in sound than my partners iphone so we have purchased a cheap entry level audio monitor which we use together with this camera for added peace of mind"
73.4%

false alarms

"i constantly get false alarms and alerts"
73.4%

additional subscriptions

"£300pa £30pcm for 30 days recording on 1 camera additional camera subscriptions are discounted to half price for additional subscriptions a fast and reliable internet connection is required"
73.2%

additional cams

"buying subscriptions for additional cams is a nightmare"
73.2%

longer stem

"i'd have liked more fixing options and more ways to bend and a longer stem"
73.2%

needing the cable

"power cable connection is utterly **** have used cables that are working with other devices 100% but our camera is consistent in shutting off needing the cable to be reseated"
73.2%

distorted images

"disappointing ir quality too much reflection leading to distorted images from reflective service at night"
72.8%

free trial

"there is a 30 day free trial of the cloud after which you need to pay either monthly or yearly for either 10 days or 30 days history to be accessible you pay one cost for the first subscription and each camera subscribed after this is half price the subscription can be cancelled at any time"
72.7%

notifies randomly

"sunrise outside and notifies randomly a lot"
72.6%

never materialised

"they even promised a free subscription which never materialised"
72.4%

broad daylight

"even at its highest resolution in broad daylight you wont make out any faces or even license plates on cars so i would not recommend this if that is what you want it for"
72.4%

same problem

"we tried this at all streaming qualities and same problem"
72.4%

only negative

"the only negative is that it looks quite ugly compared to my logicircle but i guess you can't have everything!"
72.3%

added frustration

"thieves could rob your house and you will have no evidence and the added frustration of having spent money on a cam"
72.1%

weak links

"my only gripes are even with a fast internet connection 120mbps down 10mbps up the stream can bog down a bit as it's my understanding the camera first uploads all footage to nest and then your devices computer are streaming the footage from nest's servers rather than the camera directly so any weak links in these connections can result in a jerky stream"
71.8%

notice meany

"i notice meany rather disparaging comments about the cost of monitoring"
71.6%

known issue

"i spent an hour on the phone with a google senior advisor and he told me 'this is a known issue and we are working on a fix please wait indefinitely until we may or may not be able to fix this""
71.6%

mildly irritating

"for my purposes and what i use my camera for these issues while mildly irritating are not deal breakers and i will tolerate them"
71.3%

disappointing part

"only disappointing part is that i cannot record anything!"
70.7%

gone forever

"1 person finally came back saying its gone forever and they can't do anything"
70.4%

design problem

"maybe there wasn't a defect but there was a huge design problem if this is how it is meant to work"
70.3%

marital issue

"first of all i had a major marital issue i needed recorded as proof for legal reasons"
70.0%

trial ends

"the nest is a nightmare after your free trial ends"
69.9%

just too high

"a regular ip camera with no cloud backup once the 30 day trial subscription ends and most regular ip cameras with 1080p displays and no cloud backup are 3 5x cheaper than the nest cam the subscription cost of 8 quid a month is just too high to justify when competitors like tplink kasa cam offer 3 days"
69.9%

problematic unit

"maybe i was unlucky to get a problematic unit but i think that there are deeper problems with nest's hardware and or servers so i will be getting a different brand"
69.8%

power cable

"the power cable is long enough to connect the camera at ceiling heigh to a floor mounted power socket but only comes in white therefore it depends on the background wall colours whether it looks good or not "
69.6%

disables recording video

"it has a function that disables recording video alerts if you are at home ideal for what i need and this function can be switched off"
69.3%

poorly executed

"great idea poorly executed and there are more effective cheaper ip cameras out there"
69.1%

cheap wifi

"previously we had been using a couple of cheap wifi ip cameras chinese bought here on amazon that were a nightmare trying to get them to connect to the network and used really clunky software"
69.0%

trial subscription

"less than 3 days in place the 3 month trial subscription just 'falls' off my account and loses the video history"
68.8%

constant static noise

"very quiet and constant static noise in the background which is very annoying"
68.7%

nowhere near

"the mic is nowhere near as sensitive as the old dropcam mic was though"
68.4%

instead nest

"you enter the name and press next expecting to be asked for a password or some additional settings but instead nest starts trying to connect"
68.3%

waste your money

"don't waste your money"
68.1%

nothing worked

"i called nest support and followed their instructions when i eventually got through but nothing worked"
67.1%

does n't show anything

"sometimes i get a sporadic alert because of sound detected while she clean but then i go to the timeline and no event is recorded or the static picture sent to email doesn't show anything"
67.1%

waste of money

"waste of money"
66.7%

crazy money

"at almost £100 a year this is crazy money and not a recurrent cost i'm prepared to pay for"
66.5%

unless you subsribe

"it will not record unless you subsribe"
66.5%

really broken

"their whole accounts order system is really broken"
66.4%

useless at night

"i also purchased one to go outside and have tried external casings for it but all are useless at night so don't bother"
66.2%

down by attention

"this has the potential for a great product let down by attention to detail"
65.8%

gets stuck

"love the app but it gets stuck sometimes when scrolling backwards"
65.7%

return it for replacement

"another point maybe it's only relate to my device the new uk plug adapted stopp working after 2 days and i had to return it for replacement"
65.6%

owing to its auto

"sadly the show lets it down rather owing to its auto cut off every 30 minutes and by not allowing the nest cam to transmit sound from the baby’s room"
65.5%

lacks consistency

"you can look at them and see what's going on but everything else is either prohibitively expensive for an already expensive device or lacks consistency"
65.4%

falls ' off my account

"less than 3 days in place the 3 month trial subscription just 'falls' off my account and loses the video history"
65.4%

buying subscriptions

"buying subscriptions for additional cams is a nightmare"
65.0%

limited number

"however despite everything i looked at i didn't realise that this camera and it's storage subscription service only works in a limited number of countries"
64.9%

gradually worse

"started off so well but got gradually worse"
64.7%

gave up the ghost

"purchased 11 12 15 and it gave up the ghost completely by the 25 01 16"
64.7%

disappointed in these

"really disappointed in these and in nest"
64.7%

returned it to buy this

"i bought a cheap camera and it was so bad i returned it to buy this"
64.7%

frequent disconnects

"frequent disconnects"
64.3%

lost the feed

"originally had two of the motorolla cams but they didn't have the wide angle lens and then when hubble their platform was updated in june 2016 and we lost the feed for over 24 hours and their communication about it to everyone was so poor we went for two of these nest cams"
64.1%

failed means no pictures

"in some cases apparently the camera can still transmit pictures but in my case failed means no pictures"
64.1%

awkward configuration

"it removes a lot of the awkward configuration needed for ip cameras at the cost of tying you to nest for full functionality"
64.1%

broadban connectivity

"i have great internal wifi and broadban connectivity reverted back to foscam cameras which just work"
64.0%

cheap option

"it's not a cheap option"
63.7%

started to go wrong

"but as soon as i was forced to pay for the monthly subscription it started to go wrong could not recall past 'events' and then on occasion website would not pick up the webcams"
63.6%

renders this useless

"pain in the behind and renders this useless as it's so unreliable"
63.5%

single drop

"since using the nest we’ve had not a single drop out"
63.5%

keep failing

"both of mine keep failing"
63.2%

delay in live streaming

"delay in live streaming even with the fastest broadband speed 150 mbps "
63.1%

fire alarms

"i bought this camera to spy on my dogs but also to make sure that i could spot if there was a fire in case the fire alarms go off "
63.1%

poorly designed

"poorly designed"
62.9%

drops one star

"it drops one star however as the video quality is not great but usable"
62.7%

failed after a month

"one of the cameras failed after a month and got replaced after a torturous process with customer services and frankly the camera is poor"
62.1%

terrible product

"so overall i think it's a terrible product and the worst customer service i have every had"
61.9%

forced on the cameras

"everything worked well and out of nowhere a new feature is forced on the cameras"
61.9%

really clunky software

"previously we had been using a couple of cheap wifi ip cameras chinese bought here on amazon that were a nightmare trying to get them to connect to the network and used really clunky software"
61.7%

stops and closes

"when it disconnects if it can't reconnect immediately the app just stops and closes without giving an immediate alert that it has disconnected"
61.7%

slow to load

"downsides are the actual nest app is so slow to load"
61.6%

remove the camera

"tried turning on and off several times with no joy so decided to remove the camera from the account and re install"
61.6%

continually rejected

"i tried to subscribe but my post code was continually rejected"
61.6%

avoid these cameras

"my advice at the moment is to avoid these cameras"
61.3%

wasted over an hour

"i could not reinstall and wasted over an hour"
60.7%

delayed by 1 2 minutes

"they are on average delayed by 1 2 minutes"
60.6%

lots of false

"nest app very good cons: lots of false alerts due to its picking even lights in the hall etc"
60.5%

replaced it happens

"people lose get their cards damaged all the time need to have them replaced it happens !"
60.4%

worse to the point

"secondly the reason we got it was the movement and sound detection and notification system which worked well initially but gradually got worse to the point we would hear the baby crying out and the app was saying there was no issue"
60.4%

frustration with them

"i've given nest plenty of grief over the last several weeks regarding their products and my frustration with them but i think i need to be fair here and re write my review about the indoor cameras and their subscription fee"
60.4%

poor reviews

"ignore the poor reviews"
60.0%

cloud storage therefore

"the problem is i don't want 10 days cloud storage therefore i don't pay the £8 per month £80 per year subscription"
59.5%

disappointing ir quality

"disappointing ir quality too much reflection leading to distorted images from reflective service at night"
59.1%

apps and website

"the apps and website are up to date and the camera has the specs you want 1080p night vision microphone speaker "
59.0%

fairly useless

"worse you pay a lot for the cameras and then they are still fairly useless without paying an annual subscription as well"
58.7%

will be cancelled

"if you change country after the 30 day free trial has begun it will be cancelled and you will not get it back personal experience nest support is utterly useless and slow"
58.6%

number of outage

"however a number of outage to nest's servers means that there is no way to view the output from the camera"
58.6%

broken into

"neighbour got broken into and camera caught the whole thing great devce"
58.6%

software is rubbish

"the software is rubbish"
58.5%

pile of trouble

"so works well but if a payment does not go through expect a pile of trouble"
58.4%

good as useless

"this camera is as good as useless"
58.4%

cried wolf too often

"they drop offline from time to time for no apparent reason and trigger at the slightest movement which leads to a classic "cried wolf too often" problem"
58.2%

gets flagged

"at the moment all movement gets flagged and there is no algorithm for the software to learn what matters like the cleaner arriving and what doesn't her then working around the house"
58.2%

gets uploaded

"if you're on a connection with a data cap then look elsewhere because everything gets uploaded and there's no alternative"
58.2%

lies the problem

"you can't use them at all without using the supporting software and services and herein lies the problem"
58.1%

very choppy

"the picture and sound sent by the camera are by my estimation anywhere from four to six seconds delayed and the picture isn't smooth it's very choppy barely one or two frames a second at times"
57.9%

novelty wears

"there's an utter lack of basic features behind the scenes that really becomes apparent after the novelty wears off and then the dent in your wallet starts to really hurt"
57.8%

cheap camera

"i bought a cheap camera and it was so bad i returned it to buy this"
57.6%

n't have everything

"the only negative is that it looks quite ugly compared to my logicircle but i guess you can't have everything!"
57.6%

first sign of problems

"the setup process was the first sign of problems"
57.5%

killed the deal

"but what killed the deal for me was its advertised as 1080 resolution but i just cant see how it is"
57.3%

plenty of grief

"i've given nest plenty of grief over the last several weeks regarding their products and my frustration with them but i think i need to be fair here and re write my review about the indoor cameras and their subscription fee"
57.2%

misses the right moment

"if you have a break in and the camera misses the right moment faces or other particularities it was all a complete waste of money"
57.2%

constant streaming

"but it also gets very hot too possibly due to the constant streaming to the cloud service"
57.2%

software a bit lacking

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
56.9%

have a break

"if you have a break in and the camera misses the right moment faces or other particularities it was all a complete waste of money"
56.8%

rubbish with huge

"the netatmo welcome was absolutely rubbish with huge lag and no 2 way audio"
56.8%

completely useless

"i am now selling it and buying from another brand as completely useless"
56.7%

wait indefinitely

"i spent an hour on the phone with a google senior advisor and he told me 'this is a known issue and we are working on a fix please wait indefinitely until we may or may not be able to fix this""
56.5%

cancelled my subscription

"all worked great during the free trial but when i tried to subscribe to nest aware so many problems they cancelled my subscription without telling me so my home wasn't being protected"
56.5%

n't make me laugh

"don't make me laugh"
56.5%

not suited to myself

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
56.4%

bother me too much

"the need to have the nest aware package does not bother me too much"
56.4%

camera is faulty

"one camera is faulty"
56.4%

card had expired

"however i had an issue where a payment bounced because a card had expired"
56.4%

n't find them

"i do this when the dogs merge with the sofa and i can't find them"
56.4%

terrible experience

"my terrible experience with them is that i had the free trial and something went wrong their end and it was all deleted"
56.3%

much time wasted

"such a shame so much time wasted!"
56.2%

that was not right

"about 10 days ago i received notice that my payment for the monthly fee had not gone through well that was not right as funds are pretty plentiful and was only12 pounds i contacted cs right away it turns out it was my mums bank card that had just been lost and was being replaced so in other words nest taking payments off a card rather than straight from a bank account !"
56.2%

have had to return

"unfortunately nest cam doesn't work with my bt infinity router and nest support couldn't get it working so i have had to return it"
56.2%

would be a problem

"however for people looking to use the camera for monitoring pets children or the elderly as well as in many other use cases these same issues certainly would be a problem"
56.2%

trying to connect

"you enter the name and press next expecting to be asked for a password or some additional settings but instead nest starts trying to connect"
56.2%

hefty price

"as others have mentioned the camera is basically useless without a subscription which comes on a hefty price"
56.1%

it's so slow

"i have other non nest hd cameras that are much faster to load i just can't understand why it's so slow"
56.0%

comes to unit not working

"website not very useful for support when it comes to unit not working"
56.0%

works with me not

"because of that i no longer want this product i want one that works with me not me working around it"
55.9%

being lied

"i have literally 20 emails from 17 different people all saying different things and being lied to"
55.9%

flash is not supported

"i could not find an app that worked with the nest and your browser will not be able to run the website because nest are using flash to playback the nest picture and flash is not supported"
55.9%

it's not the cheapest

"it's not the cheapest but it's well build and good quality"
55.9%

router problems

"once i'd resolved the router problems set up was done in about 2 minutes"
55.8%

through expensive service

"as it is these cams are let down by a poorly thought through expensive service"
55.8%

hopefully there wo

"it's not yet alerted me to any security issues but that's because there haven't been any and hopefully there won't"
55.8%

does n't always

"i have just noticed that the app doesn't always show the activity though well today it didn't"
55.8%

just too annoying

"the first thing i noticed was the picture quality was great but that the fish eye distortion just too annoying due to the extreme wide angle"
55.7%

replace another

"original review below: i bought this camera to replace another far cheaper camera and considering the significant financial investment i expected a truly first rate product"
55.7%

which do nothing

"i've spoken email to about 30 people all of which do nothing"
55.5%

biggest problem

"my biggest problem with these cameras is that one and it was always the same one would lose internet connection for no obvious reason"
55.5%

right away it turns

"about 10 days ago i received notice that my payment for the monthly fee had not gone through well that was not right as funds are pretty plentiful and was only12 pounds i contacted cs right away it turns out it was my mums bank card that had just been lost and was being replaced so in other words nest taking payments off a card rather than straight from a bank account !"
55.5%

have n't done

"to store the recordings you do need to pay the subscription which i haven't done yet"
55.4%

device is rubbish

"this device is rubbish"
55.4%

should be trivial

"so let's say you want to schedule all of you cameras coming on for some event you've going to have to tap a ridiculous number of times to setup something that seems like it really should be trivial"
55.4%

stealing stuff

"this is after actually capturing a cleaner stealing stuff from our holiday home"
55.4%

that has its own problems

"there’s no power cuts and my ring camera is connecting perfectly although that has its own problems tbh so it’s not the internet"
55.4%

nest website

"i have found that if you view the video feed through the nest website not the app then if it disconnects it seems to reconnect itself and you can carry on watching the video from the camera"
55.2%

nothing there

"daily i'm getting notifications saying something is happening just to make panic and see that there's nothing there"
55.2%

14 day storage plan

"i opted to take the 14 day storage plan for 2 cams at 12 pounds per month all worked fine and was able to capture and store copy of a section that showed mum having a fall and just how good the response was to the incident on the day"
55.2%

have no access to

"it's in a holiday home and i have no access to it easily otherwise it would go back"
55.2%

delivers as stated

"easy to add to current system and delivers as stated"
55.1%

way talking is rubbish

"two way talking is rubbish"
55.1%

they ca n't do anything

"1 person finally came back saying its gone forever and they can't do anything"
55.1%

there's no alternative

"if you're on a connection with a data cap then look elsewhere because everything gets uploaded and there's no alternative"
54.9%

little work

"software needs a little work"
54.9%

does n't work as

"i really wanted this camera to be good so i could buy a few for around the house and also in the garden using the waterproof cover but it just doesn't work as it should"
54.8%

smoke alarms

"i'm now going to buy some smoke alarms"
54.7%

smoke detectors

"i have 3 nest smoke detectors and this should compliment them"
54.7%

flaw in the product

"i did return it but my decision was based on it just not really fitting with my requirements and not a flaw in the product"
54.7%

n't load constantly

"it stops recording randomly logs me out won’t load constantly"
54.7%

not deal breakers

"for my purposes and what i use my camera for these issues while mildly irritating are not deal breakers and i will tolerate them"
54.7%

n't think it through

"i didn't think it through and bought this as i trusted the nest brand name"
54.7%

n't like that

"i also didn't like that i could only access the camera from the nest app"
54.7%

not record anything

"only disappointing part is that i cannot record anything!"
54.7%

glare of the window

"i do not like this camera i have an indoor one that look through a window but there’s a glare of the window then there light which shows there’s a camera on show and at night reflects of the window making the camera useless "
54.7%

done nothing about

"they've done nothing about it"
54.7%

it's so unreliable

"pain in the behind and renders this useless as it's so unreliable"
54.6%

justify a lesser product

"not sure how nest google feel they can justify a lesser product for over twice the price?"
54.6%

dead and useless

"the main problem with these ip cameras is a robber only needs to cut the incoming telephone or cable feed and it's completely dead and useless"
54.6%

dent in your wallet

"there's an utter lack of basic features behind the scenes that really becomes apparent after the novelty wears off and then the dent in your wallet starts to really hurt"
54.6%

does n't work at

"yeah the camera looks nicer but you’ll regret you paid so much for something that just doesn’t work at all"
54.6%

n't know though

"i think the camera must get triggered my changes in light level entering the room don't know though"
54.6%

not buy this camera

"do not buy this camera"
54.6%

n't work reliably

"without subscription you get motion and sound alerts but they don't work reliably"
54.6%

not work with wifi

"setup did not work with wifi and was forced to connect the cam to a pic first"
54.6%

most definitely

"i cannot see a thing and it is most definitely not 1080p"
54.6%

there was no issue

"secondly the reason we got it was the movement and sound detection and notification system which worked well initially but gradually got worse to the point we would hear the baby crying out and the app was saying there was no issue"
54.5%

will not buy again

"expensive piece of kit that we will not buy again"
54.5%

interfere with bandwidth

"i"ve also created a dedicated wifi network in the house for the cameras as we found that they interfere with bandwidth if using the regular network"
54.4%

like no tomorrow

"but eats into your data allowance like no tomorrow not a problem if you are on a contract with your mobile phone company"
54.3%

nothing happened

"they worked fine so long as nothing happened but as soon as they detected movement they switched themselves off for up to 24 hours"
54.3%

wait for a few seconds

"you have to purchase cloud memory for this to really be useful so ur paying allot of money to buy it and then a monthly fee on top to use it in full the audio is the big problem here when you press and hold the audio button one way at a time only you cant hear the other person speaking once you let go of the button you have to wait for a few seconds before you can start hearing the other person"
54.3%

expensive peephole

"this is as others have stated a glorified expensive peephole"
54.1%

lond powere lead

"it comes with a lond powere lead which makes life easier for positioning"
54.0%

could n't ask for more

"couldn't ask for more"
53.9%

make panic

"daily i'm getting notifications saying something is happening just to make panic and see that there's nothing there"
53.9%

somewhat lacking

"after a few weeks of using the camera we did notice that the audio quality via our phones was somewhat lacking"
53.9%

register as logging

"as suggested i setup the unit with the ios app which was straightforward enough once i realised that i didn't register as logging in was actually registration"
53.9%

miss a step

"nest have thought of everything pull tabs for opening everything with ease instructions on tabs to guide you through the process so you don't miss a step"
53.8%

loses the video history

"less than 3 days in place the 3 month trial subscription just 'falls' off my account and loses the video history"
53.8%

blamed on poor signal

"i was only in my garden connected to the wifi so it can not be blamed on poor signal"
53.7%

lets the trio

"i would only recommend if you want to speak to your dog at home otherwise it's useless i own the whole nest range and the camera lets the trio down!"
53.7%

the blurry image

"its only a small living room so why the blurry image"
53.7%

uncompressed video

"a super quick estimation which could be totally incorrect sees an uncompressed video at a peak rate of 24mbit s yielding 8mb s so 8 * 3600 means 28gb per hour 696gb per day 20tb per month and a whopping 240tb per annum"
53.6%

does n't automatically

"also the nest apps home away feature isn't faultless sometimes it thinks i'm home when i'm not so cam doesn't automatically turn back on"
53.5%

camera is poor

"one of the cameras failed after a month and got replaced after a torturous process with customer services and frankly the camera is poor"
53.5%

wasting my money and

"i'm in trouble with my wife for wasting my money and i am tech savvy!"
53.4%

just wicked

"the nest software has gotten better and far more reliable too and its just wicked"
53.3%

higher initial cost

"disadvantages of using nest cameras over standard cctv are: higher initial cost per camera and optional monthly annual subscription fee"
53.3%

flat design

"i'm sure you enjoyed it the first time let's have you do it all over again so you can really appreciate the flat design and pretty fonts"
53.3%

stealing things

"we had some caught in the act of stealing things and no proof"
53.2%

not recover or return

"so i have a camera i cannot recover or return"
53.2%

it's not the internet

"there’s no power cuts and my ring camera is connecting perfectly although that has its own problems tbh so it’s not the internet"
53.0%

correct your errors

"then i tried to purchase again and the website says "correct your errors" when there were no errors on the page so i still can't subscribe"
52.7%

with no subscriptions

"great cameras but i don’t like the fact you have to pay a subscription service especially because amazon sell similar cameras for less with no subscriptions needed"
52.7%

faulty power socket

"the first one had a faulty power socket and kept switching itself on and off"
52.7%
...

extremely frustrating in both products

"i installed two floodlight cams 1 week ago however the inability to de sensitise the movement sensors so that they don't constantly notify when either of my two cats enter the garden is extremely frustrating"
99.2%

very disappointed in both products

"very disappointed!"
99.0%

falls short in both products

"i cannot and do not rate or recommend ring at all and would suggest that anyone looking for security for their home find something that will offer just that because this product clearly falls short"
75.0%

only gripe in both products

"my only gripe is that the motion lights seems to switch on for random reasons in the middle of the night although there seems to be nothing there to set them off"
74.9%

only issue in both products

"only issue is that it is triggered mostly by cats despite having the ‘human only’ detection setting on"
74.9%

more expensive in both products

"i removed an existing security light to replace it with the much more expensive ring floodlight cam"
74.8%

false alarm in both products

"we had false alarm after false alarm simply not designed to trigger human movement only"
74.8%

false alerts in both products

"in my experiance i have had to turn off notifications for both the flood light and stick up as you will get false alerts because of bugs and the like climbing over the camera i imagine they are drawn to the infrared lights strange though that they dont tend to climb on the doorbell one"
73.4%

having problems in both products

"funny how i am now having problems connecting to cameras is this because we did not pay subcription"
73.3%

main problem in both products

"the main problem is the internet connection falling means the camera does not work"
73.0%

brick walls in both products

"i’m delighted with the purchase as even though the wifi signal is weak having to travel through two brick walls it still functions perfectly"
71.5%

overly sensitive in both products

"the sensor for the lights is so overly sensitive that they are continually going off over nothing what so ever and even with the motion setting for them turned all the way down it will still trigger for something about 30 ft away"
69.8%

does not work in both products

"the main problem is the internet connection falling means the camera does not work"
69.1%

major flaw in both products

"major flaw in the design"
68.5%

stopped working in both products

"update almost exactly two years later it has stopped working!"
67.8%

next to useless in both products

"it kept telling me there was no connection when the wifi router was about 6 foot away from the floodlight and the troubleshooting videos from ring were next to useless hence the 3 star rating"
55.3%

very annoying in both products

"very annoying"
54.5%

horrible experience

"after the horrible experience i have had with this product i couldn't possibly justify paying for their plan"
99.8%

poor value

"poor value for money at £185 from amazon"
97.5%

higher payments

"there is almost a £50 increase with higher payments"
97.2%

bother whatsoever

"customer service not great from ring so recommend you buy this directly from amazon as they accepted the return and replacement with no bother whatsoever reassuring at this price"
95.5%

corrupted video problems

"i've also had black screen corrupted video problems with some of the recordings"
94.2%

quite unreliable

"but can still be quite unreliable"
91.8%

worst quality

"especially disappointed with the wire connector block which is worst quality imaginable"
91.5%

tightening bolt

"the resulted in too much pressure on the tightening bolt causing it to pull through the plastic backplate rendering the product unusable"
89.5%

absolutely useless

"absolutely useless"
88.9%

worst security product

"for some reason the stick up cam is the worst security product i've ever bought while the floodlight is easily the best"
88.4%

extremely restricted

"as others have commented the amount of room to connect house the wires is extremely restricted"
88.0%

weak as hell

"mounting plate it weak as hell so be careful when tightening up why can’t this be metal not plastic?"
87.8%

miss events

"it regularly does not respond well and it has started to completely miss events especially white vehicles"
75.0%

wouldnt light

"i was worried the floodlights wouldnt light up much as near roof on my house"
74.9%

naughty burglars

"you can set the sensitivity & spy on cats & foxes hopefully never naughty burglars "
74.9%

very difficult

"not sure if fault of product or poor wifi signal in my home but i found it very difficult to connect camera and to get timely pictures"
74.9%

average execution

"great idea average execution"
74.9%

same issue

"i unfortunately had not seen all the other reviews reporting the same issue of the weak mounting base so when i installed my camera i had that one review in mind and took extra care not to tighten the screws too much"
74.9%

potential disability

"i do not deny that the manufacturer needs to review this potential disability sooner rather than later in an attempt to raise the ability of their product but in terms of market rivals it has few at this home security level that can boast better reception and transmission of data and quality of build"
74.9%

significantly worse

"it's significantly worse in lower light conditions despite the spotlights "
74.9%

disconnects itself

"it will only let you watch for 10 minute intervals at a time before it disconnects itself and you need to re connect which can take 10 to 20 seconds or just freeze up entirely"
74.9%

weak plastic

"camera good fixing back box poor weak plastic that cracked when screwing to wall"
74.9%

very glitchy

"it is very glitchy and you spend a lot of time watching spinning circles before you can watch any recordings and live view is near impossible to watch"
74.8%

major issue

"the other major issue is the wifi range which is shockingly bad"
74.8%

robbed ectc

"we have lots of low level crime in our area cars broken into low lives breaking into homes sheds robbed ectc so sending cuts of these bums caught in the act via the app to the police is another way of getting these people behind bars!"
74.8%

very distorted

"thought i'd give the flood light a chance because i have a door bell which is fine however on the flood light thr live stream mode picture is very distorted but recordings are fine contacted ring and there are blaming the internet provider which is a bit of a joke really because nothing is wrong with"
74.8%

practically useless

"installation is a total pain with very small space for the wires and all the screws made from so soft materials that they are practically useless"
74.8%

snooze function

"only niggle is that the snooze function only works for up to 6 hours"
74.8%

major irritation

"this is my only major irritation and i am working on an internet speed upgrade"
74.8%

biggest issue

"the biggest issue with this product is the cheap plastic mounting bracket"
74.7%

becomes useless

"disconnect the internet or interfere with the signal and the camera becomes useless"
74.7%

returning home

"what i didn't know was there is a feature to turn on the light remotely so when i am returning home late at night i can turn the light on before arriving home"
74.7%

very annoyed

"very very annoyed"
74.5%

have failed

"however less than two years after purchase both led lights on this unit have failed"
74.5%

screw points

"the back plate which attaches to the wall and to which the camera fixes was awkward to connect and i ended up breaking one of the screw points"
74.5%

only problem

"only problem is you lose a lot of time stalking your neighbours and passers by"
74.5%

first fault

"that's the first fault the second one is the build quality"
74.4%

most expensive

"the ring system is probably the most expensive and you do have to pay extra for cloud recording after the first 30 days other systems offer this at a lower cost"
74.3%

very expensive

"having done all is this the unit seems stronger than it would have otherwise been but it's frustrating to think that a very expensive light is now installed with a broken backplate"
74.3%

loses signal

"a i did buy a netamo for home and it loses signal and is not as clear as this camera"
74.2%

lower cost

"the ring system is probably the most expensive and you do have to pay extra for cloud recording after the first 30 days other systems offer this at a lower cost"
74.2%

first problem

"first problem was the cheap wall mounting plate which cracked on installation the connections could be much better designed as well"
74.1%

drill two holes

"if you're mildly competent installing this in place of your existing flood light won't be too much trouble for you seeing as you probably only need to drill two holes and connect up three wires"
74.1%

security flaw

"just make sure your broadband has capacity for it as it's wholly internet based which depending on how you look at it is a bit of a security flaw "
74.1%

cheaply made

"my problems started whilst trying to fit the cheaply made plastic backplate"
73.9%

mine cracked

"the housing on mine cracked and broke immediately"
73.9%

more hassle

"seems this will be more hassle than its worth"
73.9%

replacement product

"then followed by another email from alan neighbor advocate at ring who offered 2 solutions: to send a replacement product or to have a phone call to help find a way to fix it"
73.8%

extremely small

"the plastic bracket warps very quickly and the space for wires is extremely small"
73.6%

quality laggy

"still needs refinement expensive wifi links fail readily picture quality not hd quality laggy"
73.5%

additional tweaking

"additional tweaking is needed in settings as the motion sensor can be very happy straight out of the box"
73.2%

design fault

"i will be seeking a full refund since this design fault doesn’t inspire me to get a replacement"
73.2%

tightened probably

"the light tightening screw could not be tightened probably a few turns too short so one of the light could not be positioned correctly and just hanging worthless"
72.9%

walks past

"it goes off when a cat walks past"
72.8%

weak point

"pitty that this is such a weak point as the camera and light are good"
72.7%

some annoyances

"i fitted my ring floodlight cam to the front of my property and it works fairly well with some annoyances "
72.6%

drilling two holes

"it was simply a matter of drilling two holes and connecting up the wiring"
72.2%

screw the cable

"i used a flexy conduit to screw the cable into the top front of this light rather than to go through the rubber bung behind it"
72.2%

negative inwould

"only negative inwould say is the app could be better regards to how to use it"
71.9%

only minor gripes

"the only minor gripes really with ring is the software could do with more granularity"
71.9%

boiler exhaust

"setup was a breeze and the ability to turn off certain zones means that the light now only comes on when there is motion and not when the neighbours boiler exhaust is blowing"
71.9%

false alarm thing

"still rated at 5 stars as the false alarm thing is a necessary evil i suppose"
71.6%

design flaw

"not impressed at all how such an expensive item could have this design flaw!"
71.6%

same clarity

"his camera has the same clarity as mine his records to sd card"
70.5%

broken backplate

"eventually i had no other choice but to take the existing fittings completely out of the backplate and screw the light fitting straight into the wall and through the broken backplate using long screws and rawl plugs to hold it into position so wasn't able to use the more aesthetically pleasing colour matched one's provided"
70.0%

little gadget

"great little gadget"
69.1%

remove old light

"took 15 minutes to remove old light and install this wiring was very straight forward"
69.0%

ring software

"the ring software is brilliant the lock collars are a real annoyance for something this pricey i nearly sent my second one back luckily they came loose 😏 good luck and ring make better mounting plates and lock collars!"
68.4%

completely flat

"a couple of top tips firstly if you have a spar rendered wall chip the stones off so that the surface is completely flat"
68.4%

injury claim

"our security is now compromised and ring should feel lucky there’s not a personal injury claim here as it could have fallen on somebody and it’s a heavy piece of kit!"
67.9%

major pain

"ironically it doesn't set the floodlights off when you're reversing your car onto your drive though they just come on once you've gotten out of your car which is a major pain!"
67.9%

stays still useless

"works if your subject person stays still useless if they move"
67.7%

rubber bung

"i used a flexy conduit to screw the cable into the top front of this light rather than to go through the rubber bung behind it"
67.3%

dropped it down

"edit dropped it down to a 1 star due to the continued poor performance of the app also"
67.3%

no explanation received

"no explanation received"
67.1%

unless within

"their position can't be adjusted the quality of video is poor so you can't see reg plates or people's faces unless within 2m"
67.0%

much pressure

"the resulted in too much pressure on the tightening bolt causing it to pull through the plastic backplate rendering the product unusable"
66.5%

real annoyance

"the ring software is brilliant the lock collars are a real annoyance for something this pricey i nearly sent my second one back luckily they came loose 😏 good luck and ring make better mounting plates and lock collars!"
66.4%

disconnects from wifi

"disconnects from wifi constantly even with very good signal hit and miss whether live view will work lights mind of their own i’ve turned them off permanently "
66.4%

been waiting 6weeks

"mine broke and i have been waiting 6weeks for a replacement and wasted at least 2hrs between calls and emails to support"
66.2%

limited 1 year warranty

"with a limited 1 year warranty and an alleged 10 year life on the led bulbs we are feeling properly ripped off by ring"
66.0%

losing my mind

"couple more options to try but i’m slowly losing my mind and will return as faulty once i’ve exhausted all options"
65.9%

software updates

"the only criticism i have is i wish the floodlight itself was brighter overall its a product that just gets better with software updates to the app"
65.9%

hard wired

"only issue has been as it relies on wifi it has cut out a few times or not connected as quickly as expected unlike my ring elite which is hard wired"
65.8%

releasing updates on the

"ring support isn't the best and chatting to them online can be painstaking hopefully they will keep releasing updates on the app to support the floodlight better i don't mind paying the subscription as long as it works!"
65.7%

gimmick rather than

"lastly the "siren" is fairly quiet and therefor more a gimmick rather than a useful feature"
65.7%

no response from ring

"no response from ring very poor"
65.7%

much trouble

"if you're mildly competent installing this in place of your existing flood light won't be too much trouble for you seeing as you probably only need to drill two holes and connect up three wires"
65.7%

poor quality

"i’ve found this product very easy to install however it’s of poor quality"
65.6%

just hanging

"the light tightening screw could not be tightened probably a few turns too short so one of the light could not be positioned correctly and just hanging worthless"
65.5%

late using the app

"have found a work around for when i come home late using the app i can turn the lights on from the train so i can see to get to the front door"
65.4%

cheap plastics

"cheap plastics badly designed electrical box too small make installation unnecessarily hard"
65.3%

no devices connected

"there has also been a few occasions where it has even told me that i have no devices connected and can take some time for it to rectify itself"
65.3%

restricted to one minute

"or change the length of each video segment which is restricted to one minute?"
65.2%

bare mains wires

"first camera turned up with insulated wiring connectors missing meaning that bare mains wires had been left just twisted together in the back box"
65.1%

slight negative

"the only slight negative was that adding a second device results in the annual cloud cost to increase from €30 to €100 as i had assumed adding a second device would just double the cost"
64.9%

dropped off with them

"unfortunately hermes have not returned it to amazon nearly three weeks after it was dropped off with them"
64.8%

screws i thought

"unfortunately the tightness of the screws i thought was right was already too much for the base plate and it broke"
64.6%

will not work

"must have very good wifi or this will not work"
64.4%

become frustrating

"the latest update has left it failing to activate a number of times and its become frustrating"
64.2%

annoyed at this stage

"very annoyed at this stage"
63.7%

total pain

"installation is a total pain with very small space for the wires and all the screws made from so soft materials that they are practically useless"
63.7%

also hard wired

"i had the ring door bell pro hard wired and added the spot light for the back garden also hard wired "
63.7%

much plastic

"a bit too much plastic but hopefully should be hardwearing"
63.6%

less attractive

"this is a well designed product but the combination of bad instructions and shortcomings with ring support make it seem less attractive"
63.4%

cheap plastic

"this is due to the back fixing plate being made from cheap plastic"
63.3%

seem to affect

"now this one has condensation in the sensor can't be bothered to replace again it doesn't seem to affect it"
63.1%

nothing works

"lastly you need a solid wi fi signal otherwise nothing works"
63.0%

delay in app activation

"delay in app activation"
63.0%

near impossible

"it is very glitchy and you spend a lot of time watching spinning circles before you can watch any recordings and live view is near impossible to watch"
62.8%

overpriced as some

"i still think it is totally overpriced as some no name vendors offer similar cameras for almost a 10th of the price"
62.7%

fault customer service

"can't fault customer service either"
61.9%

only awkward

"only awkward bit was getting the direction set up on lights"
61.8%

wrong with

"thought i'd give the flood light a chance because i have a door bell which is fine however on the flood light thr live stream mode picture is very distorted but recordings are fine contacted ring and there are blaming the internet provider which is a bit of a joke really because nothing is wrong with"
61.3%

flipping fiddly

"they've made it as simple as possible but its still flipping fiddly to wire up when you are half attached to a wall up a ladder"
60.8%

most annoying

"the most annoying thing is small spiders can set it off if in front of the camera & also i found it was going off at night when it was raining heavy!"
60.7%

delayed notifications

"delayed notifications by about 5 seconds"
60.6%

ripped off by ring

"with a limited 1 year warranty and an alleged 10 year life on the led bulbs we are feeling properly ripped off by ring"
60.4%

wish to add them later

"the €100 charge covers unlimited devices however should you wish to add them later"
60.2%

likewise youre

"**this fundamental flaw negates the benefit of a microphone and speaker ***likewise youre not going to activate a siren if you cannot see a threat coming"
59.9%

dimming feature

"dimming feature could be useful"
59.6%

does loose connectivity

"even with the extension of my wifi to the back of my house the signal outside at the height of the camera is not great so the ring floodlight cam does loose connectivity occasionally"
59.2%

unwanted persons

"flood light very bright which is perfect for my needs given the lack of street lighting and acts a deterrent for unwanted persons"
59.0%

surrounding fences

"this one went on the rear of the house and provides a good view of the back garden and the surrounding fences"
58.9%

price does drop

"ring are 1 of the best on the market i've bought in to it all now can be exspenize but buy cheap buy twice keep checking amazon for deals as the price does drop you can also pay in installments now over 5mths no credit checks no interest win win big tip you need to have good upload speed for this to workproper around 2 mb worth every penny guys buy buy buy"
58.8%

level crime

"we have lots of low level crime in our area cars broken into low lives breaking into homes sheds robbed ectc so sending cuts of these bums caught in the act via the app to the police is another way of getting these people behind bars!"
58.7%

installation a nightmare

"it makes installation a nightmare"
58.6%

backplate cracked

"in addition when i attempted to attach the security light to the backplate found that it wasn't strong enough to take the weight of the heavy camera and lights so like others found that the backplate cracked and broke not being fit for purpose"
58.6%

definitely a deterrent

"with ability to talk to delivery drivers or intruders is definitely a deterrent and makes the wife feel safer and more secure whilst away on business"
58.6%

wifi signal was weak

"still the cam told me that the wifi signal was weak"
58.5%

ring doorbell

"i also have a ring doorbell this floodlight cam is much better quality video and has much better motion zone control"
58.2%

ring chime

"i have mine connected to a ring chime i have complained about this they told me that i need the chime pro now £50!"
58.2%

find it hard

"if you live in the typical cramped uk home then you may find it hard not get light or motion triggers from neighbours especially at the front so plan carefully where best to site the camera"
58.2%

ring floodlight

"the old light was 55watts and although it put out a lot of light this ring floodlight puts out a similar amount of light"
58.1%

ring floodcam

"its been a few days that this ring floodcam is installed and i must say its superb"
58.1%

shop elsewhere

"i’ll shop elsewhere!"
57.6%

not without some issues

"i really like the product but is not without some issues"
57.6%

flood lights are weak

"the flood lights are weak"
57.5%

great from ring

"customer service not great from ring so recommend you buy this directly from amazon as they accepted the return and replacement with no bother whatsoever reassuring at this price"
57.4%

yet still no reply

"i have sent emails regarding this but as yet still no reply"
57.3%

alignment of the holes

"watch the alignment of the holes in the base for mounting on the wall bizarrely they're not horizontal so use the up arrow to make sue its fitted level"
57.3%

existing ring doorbell

"i added this to my existing ring doorbell and another floodlight cam already installed on my drive"
57.3%

sort of problem

"unfortunately this isn't the first time this sort of problem has occurred"
57.0%

going in circles

"the internet so i just seem to be going in circles really"
56.8%

weak at peak times

"my only problem is the internet connection which can be weak at peak times"
56.6%

neighbours especially

"if you live in the typical cramped uk home then you may find it hard not get light or motion triggers from neighbours especially at the front so plan carefully where best to site the camera"
56.5%

price drop

"i gave it low rating because of this be low price drop in ring flood cam from £249 to £199 monthley payment £249 at £49"
56.5%

ring website

"i have no idea what to do with it now and did not find any help at the ring website too"
56.1%

faulty camera

"i was pleased when my security camera arrived but it was not set properly and when i went to adjust the angle of the lights half of the screw fell out but not sure if it was a faulty camera"
56.1%

broken already

"bracket has broken already and cannot find a replacement to purchase anywhere"
56.0%

spoke with ring

"i spoke with ring and they said it was faulty"
56.0%

small problem

"the only small problem that i face is a short lag in notification after months of use"
56.0%

ring helpline

"the wifi signal on the light is so poor that i had to phone the ring helpline to help me get the thing set up they were great by the way "
55.9%

accept ring extender

"edit changed my review as the camera has decided it doesn’t want to connect to my wifi extender anymore i even tried another extender and that didn’t work it will connect straight to router sometimes the tech support suggested buying the ring chime wifi extender 🙄 can they release an update to only accept ring extender?"
55.8%

just piles

"finally i just wanted to chat on line with a support person but can't find any way to do this so again this just piles on the frustration"
55.8%

fell out but not sure

"i was pleased when my security camera arrived but it was not set properly and when i went to adjust the angle of the lights half of the screw fell out but not sure if it was a faulty camera"
55.6%

gave no answer

"tried calling ring customer service who gave no answer as to why it does that"
55.5%

wasted at least 2

"mine broke and i have been waiting 6weeks for a replacement and wasted at least 2hrs between calls and emails to support"
55.3%

slight drawback

"the only slight drawback is the time lag between someone standing near it and the motion alert and video recording starting"
55.3%

installation not a quick

"great device but installation not a quick job"
55.2%

3rd ring product

"this is the 3rd ring product i have purchased"
55.2%

it's not great

"only by ring if you have good strong wifi in your house i live in an old farmhouse with 3ft think wall and it's not great"
55.2%

it's a bit slow

"retrieving cloud footage is a bit slow granted that there is a lot of data stored and it depends on your connection speed which can have an impact i'd still say it's a bit slow"
55.2%

chat was very poor

"the ring customer service live chat was very poor and showed very little interest in resolving any issues"
55.1%

item was faulty

"this item was faulty"
55.1%

only slight grumble

"my only slight grumble was that i did find adding the ring device to my subscription to ensure that recordings are stored in the cloud was difficult"
55.1%

camera did not work

"camera did not work"
54.9%

some reason nothing

"still on the matter of the app i was watching through my detected motions for the day and for some reason nothing past 5pm would load"
54.8%

very little interest

"the ring customer service live chat was very poor and showed very little interest in resolving any issues"
54.7%

settings to no avail

"i have tried various combinations of sensitivity settings and set to people only settings to no avail"
54.6%

like a fall

"doorbell its picked up motion and video so it's like a fall bac"
54.6%

nothing triggering

"the lights are quite sensitive and go on when there appears to be nothing triggering it but i prefer that to not coming on when there’s a trigger"
54.6%

not need this

"nest offers permanent recording i do not need this but it would be nice to have the option"
54.6%

very disappointing

"a very disappointing purchase and ultimately a return"
54.5%

there not to like

"what’s there not to like?"
54.5%

which they do

"according to the description and technical specifications i expected them to accommodate small animals which they don't"
54.3%

they were no help

"have contacted ring and they were no help"
54.3%

return period

"i tried to return it but the return period has passed i live in kuwait and by the time i received i had about a week to install and check"
54.1%

would n't surprise

"who knows but it wouldn’t surprise me"
54.1%

a matter of seconds

"i have noticed that my wife's iphone gets quicker response than my android but this is a matter of seconds and maybe down to the age of my mobile phone as opposed to her brand new iphone"
54.0%

away on business

"with ability to talk to delivery drivers or intruders is definitely a deterrent and makes the wife feel safer and more secure whilst away on business"
54.0%

standard floodlight

"if you don't currently have a light wired outside i probably would recommend you hiring an electrician this installation process is the exact same as a normal floodlight install so any semi competent electrician will be able to install this if they say they don't know how to install it say the wiring is the same as a bog standard floodlight and they'll be good to go "
54.0%

not such an issue

"through the cavity then it’s not such an issue as once connected you can pull the wire from the other side"
53.9%

that did n't work

"edit changed my review as the camera has decided it doesn’t want to connect to my wifi extender anymore i even tried another extender and that didn’t work it will connect straight to router sometimes the tech support suggested buying the ring chime wifi extender 🙄 can they release an update to only accept ring extender?"
53.9%

design as water

"bad design as water can be seen collected at the bottom of the pir"
53.8%

takes so long

"it takes so long to connect to the stream that if there was anyone doing something they shouldn't on your property they would be gone before you could see them"
53.8%

a tricky install

"bit of a tricky install for beginners maybe"
53.7%

seem to confuse

"cars driving across the view are fine but cars driving towards it outside the defined monitored area seem to confuse it"
53.7%

there is n't an option

"i would like the option to be able to have the siren go off automatically in certain circumstances but there isn't an option"
53.7%

have a few issues

"these are quality cameras that still have a few issues"
53.7%

camera was a bit patchy

"my wifi was not fabulous so camera was a bit patchy"
53.7%

could be better

"only negative inwould say is the app could be better regards to how to use it"
53.6%

defined monitored area

"cars driving across the view are fine but cars driving towards it outside the defined monitored area seem to confuse it"
53.6%

only a small

"again this is only a small fee which can be paid monthly or yearly"
53.6%

terrible wifi

"in summary it’s a great product but severely let down by terrible wifi range"
53.5%

item is pointless

"this item is pointless!"
53.5%

n't happen either

"also the echo show i expected to switch to ring when motion detected but this didn’t happen either"
53.2%

down by its quality

"so although the concept of the floodlight cam is fantastic it’s heavily let down by its quality"
53.0%

slow to capture motion

"generally ok but can be slow to capture motion"
53.0%

never did reset

"i tried to reset it by pressing the button for 30 seconds and more but it never did reset"
52.9%

would n't buy one again

"so i give it 2 stars and i wouldn't buy one again"
52.9%

ring video doorbell

"and if like myself you have the ring video doorbell you can also link the two devices in the app"
52.7%

bought flood cam #

"other price days after the on i bought flood cam £199"
52.7%

gone not happy

"had this item18 months light gone not happy"
52.5%

small black nuts

"on tightening the small black nuts onto the silver thread has there was no resistance telling me when to stop the silver thread broke off from its back base"
52.5%

necessary evil i suppose

"still rated at 5 stars as the false alarm thing is a necessary evil i suppose"
52.5%

no good to anybody

"the floodlight camera can be as great as it wants to be if you can't safely fix it it's no good to anybody"
52.5%

broke instantly

"the plactoc holding bracket is soo weak that it broke instantly"
52.5%

no other choice

"eventually i had no other choice but to take the existing fittings completely out of the backplate and screw the light fitting straight into the wall and through the broken backplate using long screws and rawl plugs to hold it into position so wasn't able to use the more aesthetically pleasing colour matched one's provided"
52.5%

exhausted all options

"couple more options to try but i’m slowly losing my mind and will return as faulty once i’ve exhausted all options"
52.1%

replacement base

"3 weeks later i still haven't heard anything or received a replacement base so now i have no option but to return to amazon and wait further"
52.1%

300mb down

"i have bt ftth so 300mb down 45mb up speeds which i hit all over the house and most of the garden"
52.1%

wont reset nothing

"it now wont enter set up mode wont reset nothing"
51.9%

such a headache

"it was such a headache"
51.8%

still not resolved

"still not resolved"
51.6%

n't bother with

"i have a ring doorbell and chime pro which is the same chim pro didn't make wifi any better so don't bother with it"
51.6%

difficult to get right

"the motion sensor is a bit difficult to get right"
51.6%

into homes

"we have lots of low level crime in our area cars broken into low lives breaking into homes sheds robbed ectc so sending cuts of these bums caught in the act via the app to the police is another way of getting these people behind bars!"
51.3%

plastic backplate

"my problems started whilst trying to fit the cheaply made plastic backplate"
51.2%

plastic riser

"the metal bolts pull through and snap the plastic riser off the back plate"
51.2%

am but sometimes misses

"the motion sensor can see a cat at 4am but sometimes misses a full grown adult"
51.2%

pretty much pointless

"50 per month for this option otherwise the camera is pretty much pointless unless you are continually watching it 24 hours 7 days a week!"
51.1%

firmware issue

"would have rated 6 out of 5 stars if not for this firmware issue that i have had to face multiple times"
51.0%

superspeed broadband

"5mb s upload speed not superspeed broadband and the video is always stuttering"
50.9%

ring alarm system

"i already have the ring alarm system but wanted a belt and braces approach with outdoor cctv"
50.8%

which is shockingly

"the other major issue is the wifi range which is shockingly bad"
50.8%

devices it's junk

"as a wifi connected devices it's junk"
50.8%

back button

"the app very often becomes non responsive especially when pressing the back button on my device instead of the back button in the app most times requiring you to either wait for it or force close and re open"
50.7%

short lag in notification

"the only small problem that i face is a short lag in notification after months of use"
50.7%

then it is a waste

"as it is if you are busy and can't view live then it is a waste"
50.7%

poor performance

"edit dropped it down to a 1 star due to the continued poor performance of the app also"
50.7%

before purchasing

"well i guess i should of done some more research on the product before purchasing because it doesn't really suit my needs"
50.7%

plan carefully

"if you live in the typical cramped uk home then you may find it hard not get light or motion triggers from neighbours especially at the front so plan carefully where best to site the camera"
50.6%

metal not plastic

"mounting plate it weak as hell so be careful when tightening up why can’t this be metal not plastic?"
50.6%

particularly troublesome

"even if you didn't already have an outdoor light i can't see the installation being particularly troublesome"
50.5%

excess cable

"bit fiddly to install as there is no allowance in the back body of the light for any excess cable but once this has been overcome fitting and commissioning of the unit was very simple and the app is very user friendly"
50.5%

broken unit

"also they ask for credit card details in case one does not return the broken unit in which case one is charged the full retail price"
50.4%

excuse of demand

"then theres the excuse of demand eh!"
50.4%

fixing screw

"upon fitting i noticed that the one fixing screw that holds the lamp unit to the mounting plate was broken and so wasn't able to hold the lamp in place"
50.4%

ring flood

"the ring flood cam is wicked will be getting another one grate videos n wicked lighting"
50.3%

several days later

"could be fantastic but after several hours spent mounting running power cables and drilling holes in walls i returned it several days later"
50.1%

from the bolt

"it has shorn off from the bolt see photos due to the weight"
50.1%
...

Compare Pros

works perfect in both products

"using as a baby monitor and works perfect"
100.0%

brilliant piece in both products

"brilliant piece of kit"
100.0%

excellent product in both products

"excellent product set up in less than 10 minutes and is used in living room to check on elderly relative the alerts are great so if our father who is unstable moves we can check on his safety plus you can have chat so they don’t feel lonely"
100.0%

very pleased in both products

"very pleased"
100.0%

brilliant product in both products

"brilliant product"
99.9%

excellent piece in both products

"excellent piece of technology"
99.9%

superb product in both products

"a superb product for home security and as a baby monitor"
99.9%

highly recommend in both products

"i highly recommend"
99.6%

really good in both products

"additionally the £5 or 5 eur a month depending where you live for 30 day motion cloud storage + 7 day continuous recording for up to 10 cameras from google is a really good deal"
99.3%

works perfectly in both products

"easy to set up and works perfectly"
98.6%

best camera in both products

"the best camera i ever had "
96.0%

very impressive in both products

"the clarity of the 1080 pictures are amazing and the build quality is also very impressive"
95.6%

excellent camera in both products

"an excellent camera"
92.9%

really impressive in both products

"really impressive love the app that comes with it"
89.9%

great camera in both products

"great camera which we are using as a baby monitor for the nighttime mainly"
88.5%

really happy in both products

"in most areas these cameras are excellent they are very fast to access and provide a wide range of useful features i have four of them now and am really happy with them definitely recommended"
88.4%

works well in both products

"camera is good resolution placed indoors and the night vision works well"
75.0%

great deal in both products

"it used to be this amount per camera but for up to 10 cameras it's now a great deal!"
75.0%

decent quality in both products

"pros: easy to set up no router configuration needed which with the foscams took hours solidly built heavy metal decent quality alerts when things move in specific zones of the target area are super useful and i suspect these are more secure than the foscams"
75.0%

very handy in both products

"clarity of picture is excellent and the alerts are very handy"
75.0%

looks good in both products

"magnetic base is very good and looks good on the shelf"
75.0%

good security in both products

"really like nest cameras we have quite a few as landlords it means easy quick access for info has helped a lot and good security for our tenants"
74.9%

great value in both products

"great value"
74.9%

really well in both products

"works really well love this product"
74.9%

picture quality in both products

"i looked into many nursery cameras monitors and read nothing but bad reviews on connection issues and picture quality so i turned my attention elsewhere"
74.8%

work great in both products

"it work great!"
74.6%

good picture in both products

"good picture and works well in terms of notifications however to get the best out of this you do net to subscribe to nest for £80 per annum hence 3 stars"
74.5%

good enough in both products

"going to buy a couple more but not planning to subscribe as it’s very expensive so alerts only is good enough for me if it had an ssd card that would make better than paying for subscription"
74.5%

very useful in both products

"mic is sensitive and very useful"
74.3%

working well in both products

"working well very wide angle"
74.3%

good value in both products

"have since bought another as good value and quality rob"
74.3%

image quality in both products

"the image quality is hd and it does pick up sound easily"
74.3%

quality product in both products

"immediately when i opened the packet i realised this is a very solid and high quality product"
74.2%

very responsive in both products

"pricey but usability and performance are top notch great night cam magnetic grasp is very useful and the app web is very responsive"
74.0%

very happy in both products

"overall very happy!"
74.0%

motion detection in both products

"we liked this because it is motion detection has sound has 2 way communication live feed as well as recorded history & all the family could log in to keep an eye ticked all the boxes for us"
73.7%

good product in both products

"easy to install great design good product"
73.7%

cctv camera in both products

"currently £10 per month for a single cctv camera is stupid and negative marketing"
73.4%

fantastic product in both products

"this is a fantastic product!"
73.4%

quality is great

"it quality is great"
100.0%

excellent play

"it's a lot but i get to record create clips and excellent play back for that service"
100.0%

amazingly great

"amazingly great camera"
100.0%

truly wonderful

"truly wonderful people and and a credit to the organisation and other companies would do well to follow their lead"
100.0%

brilliant camera

"brilliant camera"
100.0%

superb camera

"a superb camera which was relatively easy to set up in my mother’s supported living facility"
100.0%

great performance

"brilliant easy to insult great performance"
99.9%

really excellent

"brilliant small cam for your home and office security you also add to it to go around all your home easy to turn on and off with your phone really excellent piece of kit resonable subscription rates as well"
99.9%

delighted and impressed

"we have had the nest thermostats and nest protect smoke and co2 alarms for a while and have been delighted and impressed with them"
99.9%

works beautifully

"i initially missed the logi circle app which just works beautifully simply when the camera was working!"
99.9%

highly secure

"highly secure"
99.9%

absolutely fantastic

"absolutely fantastic camera"
99.9%

amazon offered

"regarding 1 it was an easy choice when amazon offered it and would ship out of u"
99.8%

amazing build

"hardware has amazing build"
99.7%

best thing

"the best thing we have invested in to look after our lovely mum who suffers from dementia"
99.6%

really satisfied

"so easy to set up took minutes fantastic picture quality and sound really satisfied great product"
99.5%

magnetic bases

"they are very stylish exceptionally well made with sturdy metal magnetic bases but come with wall ceiling mounts if you want"
99.5%

quality good

"video quality good with a great wide angle lens"
99.0%

monitoring peoples

"babys room or monitoring peoples coming and going then its good with easy simple to use software and good night vision"
98.9%

been excellent

"in two and a half months they have never failed signal has been excellent from an iphone to the camera even from abroad so their server side is excellent we have very good broadband but even when it has dropped the signal has been good from the cameras "
98.3%

medium quality

"ive a very basic internet package and it works ok on medium quality"
97.3%

whats happening

"easy to set up and use great picture day or night and the ability to speak and listen to whats happening is very good"
97.1%

beautifully designed

"beautifully designed easy to use great software"
96.2%

great accompanying

"fantastic product with a great accompanying app"
95.5%

build is amazing

"the camera build is amazing!"
94.4%

night vision is excellent

"night vision is excellent"
93.1%

they are brilliant

"absolutely love nest cam i always wanted dropcam here in the uk but they weren't available but since google bought dropcam they are brilliant"
93.1%

neat cam is excellent

"this neat cam is excellent"
93.0%

best user experience

"not the best user experience"
93.0%

extremely valuable

"alerts are delayed one every 1 2 hour which limits the security benefits a little but this is still an extremely valuable tool for keeping an eye on things when you are away from home"
92.4%

excellent in that

"the camera itself is excellent in that is has a great field of view and the accompanying app is very well thought out"
92.0%

very smart

"so easy to setup very smart and discreet looking camera the picture quality on my phone is great"
91.7%

nest is best

"now i’ve got 4 cameras but the nest is best !"
91.7%

usability and performance

"pricey but usability and performance are top notch great night cam magnetic grasp is very useful and the app web is very responsive"
91.0%

brilliant present

"i have bought it four times once for myself and three times as a brilliant present"
90.7%

navigate around

"the app was easy to down load although not so easy to navigate around and absolutely not intuitive"
90.6%

does a brilliant

"i am using the camera as baby monitor and it does a brilliant job for me"
89.5%

quality is superb

"quality is superb"
89.4%

recommend very highly

"would recommend very highly to anyone"
89.2%

class best

"these are top class best cameras ever so clear and precise in every way easy to set up"
89.1%

captures audio

"the fact that it captures audio and has a talk through feature is brilliant"
89.0%

great and easy to

"great and easy to use"
88.9%

good adjustment

"the picture is crisp and allows for good adjustment by zooming in and out"
88.8%

simply brilliant

"simply brilliant!"
88.6%

hardware is great

"the hardware is great and the nest app works well"
88.6%

impressed and happy

"impressed and happy"
88.6%

just brilliant

"the fact that you can zoom in and then make the selected area even better quality is just brilliant"
88.5%

great integration

"great build quality super easy to set up intuitive software and great integration with the rest of my smart home devices"
88.0%

will answer questions

"incredible picture quality intuitive software and a helpful team who will answer questions"
88.0%

storage trial

"only comes with a 30 day free storage trial if you want to store recording after the trial its an £80 annual subscription"
87.1%

greatly reduced

"when viewing remotely resolution is greatly reduced"
75.0%

good addition

"camera is pretty decent quality and the ability to talk through it is a good addition"
75.0%

awesome cameras

"awesome cameras"
75.0%

concise picture

"very easy to set up and provides excellent view angle and a really clear concise picture"
75.0%

very sturdy

"the camera was easy to setup and feels very sturdy"
75.0%

link together

"the cameras all link together and you can have notification alerts set if wished for motion and or noise"
75.0%

insurance company

"i pay £120 for two cameras for 12 months and i even managed to get my house contents insurance a little cheaper by informing the insurance company of these cameras"
75.0%

speedy delivery

"great product and speedy delivery"
74.9%

ideal alternative

"it does exactly what it says it will do and is an ideal alternative to an external security camera"
74.9%

were great

"at the time of purchase they were great and have been very reliable"
74.9%

perfect picture

"perfect picture and sound easily moveable"
74.9%

great night

"the picture is great night and day"
74.9%

quality surprising

"sound quality surprising good i find"
74.9%

nest aware

"because nest aware is not supported in my country estonia "
74.9%

smart tech

"links well to other smart tech within the home"
74.9%

smart features

"the great smart features mean you are always in the know of something is going on in the home while away giving you peace of mind"
74.9%

better deals

"i hope they give better deals soon for those who have more than one camera"
74.9%

useful setting

"as i use it to keep an eye on my cats there is a useful setting which only activates the camera when you are away from the home reads your mobile location"
74.9%

looks great

"very reassuring and looks great too"
74.8%

extra commands

"options to add extra commands via ifttt app"
74.8%

more reliable

"it has much better mobile application and more reliable motion detection"
74.8%

sensor good

"motion sensor good it sends mobile notifications"
74.8%

looking good

"looking good"
74.8%

smart device

"i love them as you can get notifications on you smart device so even when i’m working a night shift i can check up on the babies"
74.8%

saved recordings

"sends notifications on movement good wide angle sharp images easy to set up and manage saved recordings now i can keep an eye on the cat!"
74.8%

seriously great

"the picture quality at night was excellent seriously great"
74.8%

works effectively

"image quality is excellent night vision works effectively too"
74.8%

vision easy

"great vision easy to install with 24hr access"
74.7%

check remotely

"when we bought this camera i wanted something nice that i could check remotely"
74.7%

pretty easy

"product was easy to set up and was up and running in no time i work in the tech sector but thought the set up process was pretty easy and jargon free "
74.6%

easy choice

"when considering protecting your home belongings business etc it was an easy choice"
74.6%

totally reliable

"i have the ring app and have never had a problem it’s perfect and totally reliable w great service"
74.6%

good viewing

"easy to set up good viewing on night mode and sound"
74.6%

importantly peace

"have bought 2 easy to set up and gives you security and more importantly peace of mind while away from the house"
74.6%

natural choice

"so when my 4yr old logi circle started acting up this google nest cam was a natural choice even though it was so much dearer than all the other ring and amazon offerings"
74.5%

also great

"ios app also great"
74.5%

integrates well

"easy setup reliable integrates well with nest app in conjunction with nest thermostat"
74.5%

were smart

"the cameras were cheaper than my original purchase which was a bonus and when they arrived they were smart and fairly easy to plug in and set up"
74.5%

robust and functional

"works as described and is robust and functional"
74.4%

best image

"the camera is recording permanently previous recorded on motion trigger so if you want the best image ie hd 1080 it can use up to 320gb yes gb a month in broadband bandwidth so make sure you don't have limits or you could get a very nasty surprise"
74.4%

these sorts

"but with all these sorts of camera a monthly subscription price to get notifications or record video etc seems over the top"
74.4%

very easily

"the magnet base can be fixed to anything wall ceiling etc and the camera attaches very easily it can even be installed upside down"
74.4%

high quality

"nest have followed apple with not only an extremely well made product but the packaging is of high quality so even opening the box up brings an air of excitement!"
74.4%

reliable and sturdy

"reliable and sturdy"
74.3%

works flawlessly

"setting up zones within the image to watch for movement is simple and effective and the online storage works flawlessly still in trial period though you will need a fast connection"
74.3%

liked this

"we liked this because it is motion detection has sound has 2 way communication live feed as well as recorded history & all the family could log in to keep an eye ticked all the boxes for us"
74.3%

super easy

"setup was super easy"
74.3%

fantastic device

"the nest cam does all you expect and more and is a fantastic device to have in your home"
74.3%

please nest

"my apple watch alerts me when the sun comes out goes in or at night a moth flies past so a little more smartness needed please nest!"
74.3%

lovely though

"looks lovely though"
74.3%

panoramic views

"brilliant watching and listening to the dog from afar fantastic panoramic views"
74.2%

simple and easy

"i very much recommend this camera to anyone wanting a simple and easy set up of an indoor camera with excellent playback quality"
74.2%

efficient and prompt

"a fabulous product and an incredibly efficient and prompt service"
74.2%

really nice

"the nest cam is a really nice piece of hardware its relativity small compared with my old foscam and sits well on a flat service"
74.2%

perfectly well

"had it for 2 5 years now works perfectly well never freezes"
74.2%

premium subscription

"deducting one star as some of the best features required a premium subscription"
74.1%

country estonia

"because nest aware is not supported in my country estonia "
74.1%

fantastic camera

"fantastic camera"
74.1%

perfect product

"perfect product to watch pets while out the house"
74.1%

best features

"deducting one star as some of the best features required a premium subscription"
74.1%

well constructed

"my first impression of the nest camera was good the packaging was premium the camera has metal parts and feels hefty and well constructed and the instructions were simple and well written"
74.1%

sound easily moveable

"perfect picture and sound easily moveable"
74.0%

security device

"i mainly bought it as a security device so i also subscribed to the 10 days recording option to keep history of what happens home in case somebody breaks in and i need to share the video with the police"
74.0%

clear and precise

"these are top class best cameras ever so clear and precise in every way easy to set up"
74.0%

most reliable

"this one had the sharpest video stream and the most reliable connection"
74.0%

two things very well

"my previous camera while it did suffer in quality toward the end of its lifespan did two things very well: firstly the image was always in real time with not even a millisecond of delay crucial if you're using your camera for something like a baby monitor and secondly the picture was smooth and the quality was decent"
74.0%

quick and reliable

"there is a microphone and speaker and picture streaming is quick and reliable"
73.9%

ordering this

"i sent that back to john lewis and purchased this device 'nest indoor camera' i did take a huge amount of time before ordering this as the reviews send mixed signals!"
73.9%

clear and sharp

"video quality is clear and sharp"
73.9%

simple and quick

"the installation and activation of the cameras has been simple and quick and the user interfaces via smartphone app and via a web browser are intuitive"
73.8%

reasonably priced

"very straightforward set up literally minutes a very user friendly app and a reasonably priced subscription £40 for year 1 for 5 days i believe "
73.8%

pretty flexible

"the settings are pretty flexible if you don't want to run them all the time you can use the other nest device's 'auto away' setting to switch your cameras on and off or use a schedule"
73.8%

very solid

"immediately when i opened the packet i realised this is a very solid and high quality product"
73.8%

intuitive and useful

"very easy setup with an intuitive and useful if very expensive cloud video recording facility"
73.8%

quality materials

"strong good quality materials"
73.7%

very stylish

"the built quality is excellent the frame is metal not the usual plastic and the design is up to the minute and very stylish"
73.7%

excellent device

"excellent device"
73.7%

monitor her safety

"fantastic night vision so i can monitor her safety 24 7"
73.7%

very reliable

"at the time of purchase they were great and have been very reliable"
73.6%

great peace

"the android app works well and movement notifications and movement history stored safely on google's secure cloud service give great peace of mind"
73.6%

good and easy

"very good and easy to install"
73.5%

favial features

"you can clearly make out people’s favial features in the footage from them!"
73.5%

innovative product

"fantastic innovative product"
73.5%

full potential

"the yearly subscription is a must to fulfill the cameras full potential and the yearly fee is good value for money"
73.5%

free cloud storage

"other cameras have free cloud storage but we tried those and it really is a case of 'you get what you pay for'"
73.5%
...

works perfect in both products

"works perfect"
100.0%

brilliant piece in both products

"brilliant piece of kit"
100.0%

excellent product in both products

"i've had the ring doorbell for 7 months and its an excellent product and works a charm"
100.0%

very pleased in both products

"very pleased"
100.0%

brilliant product in both products

"brilliant product when in daylight or floodlight is on"
99.9%

excellent piece in both products

"excellent piece of kit easy to install will definitely be getting some extras to go with it well worth the money good quality picture both day and night nice loud siren aswell"
99.9%

superb product in both products

"superb product it's a shame they don't have guns on the camera to keep the bastards away"
99.9%

highly recommend in both products

"highly recommend"
99.6%

really good in both products

"feature wise it's really good"
99.3%

works perfectly in both products

"i struggled to get the right setting for the motion at night so i rang ring up and they talked me through and works perfectly now they were very helpful"
98.6%

best camera in both products

"i have purchased 2 of these cameras as they are in my opinion the best camera in its field"
96.0%

very impressive in both products

"the picture is very impressive and the wide angle lense covers more than i was hoping for"
95.6%

excellent camera in both products

"excellent camera!"
92.9%

really impressive in both products

"really impressive product"
89.9%

great camera in both products

"great camera"
88.5%

really happy in both products

"really easy to install easy to set up great adjustment of setting really happy"
88.4%

works well in both products

"love this camera works well with my alexa’s motion alerts are good and the lights are bright it records for 60 second clips unless you answer the motion it will then record the whole motion"
75.0%

great deal in both products

"got great deal and its spot on does exactly what it says"
75.0%

decent quality in both products

"the floodlight camera itself is a decent quality and easy to install"
75.0%

very handy in both products

"the siren and talk ability are also very handy"
75.0%

looks good in both products

"looks good and the concept is nice"
75.0%

good security in both products

"gives you a good security at any time to view good lights would buy another one if i need it"
74.9%

great value in both products

"great value"
74.9%

really well in both products

"overall though i love it and it works really well with the phone app"
74.9%

picture quality in both products

"the picture quality is great and never drops off the lights are bright and i am very happy with my purchase!"
74.8%

work great in both products

"the custom motion zones work great"
74.6%

good picture in both products

"good picture and light"
74.5%

good enough in both products

"although we didn’t manage to catch him the night vision was good enough to show us how he had entered our garden"
74.5%

very useful in both products

"the ability to custom design the motion settings and zones is very useful"
74.3%

working well in both products

"if you router is within a very short range you can get the device working well"
74.3%

good value in both products

"good value for money well recommended"
74.3%

image quality in both products

"night vision is good the image quality is excellent"
74.3%

quality product in both products

"good quality product from a reputable company"
74.2%

very responsive in both products

"works really well motion detection is great and very responsive"
74.0%

very happy in both products

"very happy with purchase"
74.0%

good product in both products

"good product easy to install and link to the ring app"
73.7%

absolutely perfect

"box came a bit battered but the contents were absolutely perfect"
100.0%

absolutely brilliant

"absolutely brilliant"
100.0%

absolutely love

"i recently bought the floodlight cam for my new house and absolutely love it"
100.0%

really powerful

"the light is really powerful and lights up our patio and into garden"
100.0%

superb this

"ring products are so well made quality of the recordings are superb this is the fourth product we have bought would highly recommend makes you feel really safe"
100.0%

very powerful

"very practical camera flood lights are very powerful and most importantly it covers my entire drive in excess of 10metres"
100.0%

really bright

"the lights are really bright and so effective"
100.0%

superb picture

"poor wi fi poor intercom lights superb picture at night and day superb wiring was easy apart from the earth which was a bit of a pain but saying that it does the job for me so i'm happy"
100.0%

quite good

"the quality of the speakers are quite good and you can communicate clearly over it"
99.9%

lovely piece

"lovely piece of kit"
99.9%

favourite thing

"my favourite thing to do is turn on the siren and shout intruder when the mrs takes the bins out"
99.9%

clever motion detection

"clever motion detection and easy zone set up"
99.9%

superb images

"superb images and sound and it doesn't attract spiders with their pesky webs like my other infra red cameras"
99.8%

very bright

"lights are very bright motion detection is good and considering the price they are excellent value for money"
99.8%

amazing quality

"amazing quality arrived well packaged and with clear instructions"
99.8%

incredibly well

"they are incredibly well packed with everything you need to perform the installation"
99.8%

good piece

"very good gives you a good piece of mind"
99.8%

really effective

"this is a really effective tool to see what is happening at your house at any time"
99.5%

excellent sound

"excellent for me the light is located only 3 meters from the wifi so it’s been excellent sound is clear as well if you want it to save videos you do have to pay a subscription of around £24 p"
99.4%

absolutely amazing

"absolutely amazing works really well and has saved us with one burglary already"
99.0%

recorded wideos

"recorded wideos some time it loads late but it dose loads in cop all of minutes"
98.9%

detection brilliant

"picture quality is superb detection brilliant and feedback to your phone amazing !"
98.9%

excellent video recording

"it has the added back up of a remotely activated siren if required along with the excellent video recording which can viewed historically or in live mode"
98.8%

amazing product

"highly recommended amazing product for a reasonable price"
98.5%

most outstanding

"the most outstanding feature is how clear the video imaging is it's fantastic with the ability to easily zoom and share the footage"
98.0%

excellent picture

"excellent picture and once connected to phone works realy well"
97.5%

installed ring

"installed ring back garden and front drive!"
97.1%

great sound

"picture quality is great sound and features to match"
96.8%

working brilliant

"upgraded my wifi to a mesh system and now the ring cameras 2 of 1 at front 1 at back and doorbell all working brilliant"
96.1%

well designed

"this floodlight camera is a clever well designed gadget "
94.6%

good experience

"on the whole it has been a good experience"
94.2%

truly amazing

"wow truly amazing pictures a must for everybody"
93.5%

impressive and effective

"impressive and effective"
93.1%

that one and perfect

"fitted that one and perfect"
92.1%

very satisfied

"highest quality but installation at height a bit fiddly one unit speaker poor but promptly replaced very satisfied"
91.8%

absolutely love it

"absolutely love it!"
91.6%

amazing also

"oh and last thing the audio is amazing also i can hear things half way up my street"
91.6%

best bit of security

"it has to be the best bit of security ever"
91.1%

works a treat

"brilliant product easy to use and works a treat"
90.9%

great company

"great piece of kit this is now my 3rd ring produce great company and excellent customer service"
90.4%

absolutely great

"clearly it's not a cheap by and there are probably cheaper alternatives but its absolutely great"
90.0%

product is great

"this product is great gives us real peace of mind and the quality of the video is good"
89.3%

really smart

"had this up for a couple of days and it's really smart the picture quality is great and the sensor works as soon as someone comes into view"
89.1%

good and accurate

"alarm is good and accurate"
88.6%

good and full

"night vision is good and full colour when lights activate"
88.6%

fantastic and bright

"but the device itself is fantastic and bright also"
88.5%

nice and bright

"easy to install good quality spot lights nice and bright ad camera imaging is decent as can be seen above!"
88.4%

great gadget

"great gadget for outdoors"
88.0%

great adjustment

"really easy to install easy to set up great adjustment of setting really happy"
88.0%

really amazing

"love it i have cctv elsewhere but this camerawomen with flood lights is really amazing"
87.0%

great addition

"i am impressed with the clarity of the video you can zoom in on live and recorded video which is a great addition"
75.0%

good coverage

"easy to use nice light good coverage for both light and camera"
75.0%

reliable security cameras

"if you want a reliable security cameras don’t go for these get proper security cameras if you want reliability"
75.0%

good instructions

"installation was easy with good instructions provided"
75.0%

easier position

"would have given a 4 really good quality build apart from back plate which is made from a flimsy plastic which cracked on installation also earth wire connector needs moved to an easier position to reach"
75.0%

really useful

"a really useful piece of kit but establishing a connection via alexa can take quite a while when you wish to talk with someone at the door"
75.0%

perfect device

"it looked like the perfect device for security and lighting but it's only real use is a light"
75.0%

reliable product

"i'm a great fan of ring i've had the ring door bell pro for over two years and it is a good reliable product"
75.0%

extremely sturdy

"the is an extremely sturdy and well made home security camera and light"
75.0%

light strips

"i bought this to replace the ring camera with built in led light strips"
75.0%

really easy

"it's well made and fitting was really easy"
74.9%

cctv cameras

"video quality is fantastic great alternative to cctv cameras and cheaper"
74.9%

spot light

"so i have the doorbell and the spot light as my driveway camera"
74.9%

properly made

"i checked that the internet would cover this for range before installing by putting a properly made extension lead and cable on it so as the camera would activate"
74.9%

politeness information

"not only are ring customer services the best i’ve dealt with for politeness information and problem solving but each and every one of their products is fantastic"
74.9%

right position

"it was easy to install and to download the app it’s took a little bit longer to get the sensor in the right position"
74.9%

reliable adjustable

"all are well made require minimal assembly and fitting and come with the necessary tools and simple clear instructions for fitting and setup each product gives fantastic night views as the lights come on so show full colour no ghost white eyes and images they are reliable adjustable and give a real sense of relief security wise when away from home"
74.9%

great security

"great security"
74.9%

triggered remotely

"and a siren that can be triggered remotely"
74.9%

great alternative

"video quality is fantastic great alternative to cctv cameras and cheaper"
74.9%

video imaging

"the most outstanding feature is how clear the video imaging is it's fantastic with the ability to easily zoom and share the footage"
74.9%

light quality

"we see a fox visit us each night and the low light quality is very good"
74.8%

full visibility

"floodlights provide excellent illumination to 15m sq garden and camera lens provides full visibility"
74.8%

easy installation

"good stuff does what it say easy installation"
74.8%

good lights

"gives you a good security at any time to view good lights would buy another one if i need it"
74.8%

professional look

"i’m super impressed with the professional look and functionality of this product"
74.8%

decent floodlight

"otherwise a good product overall with a decent floodlight which does illuminate well and the night vision on the camera is good"
74.8%

price changes

"good product spoiled by mad price variations between £180 and £250 good value at low price: price changes often so wait for low price"
74.8%

very quickly

"they did send me a replacement very quickly"
74.8%

sensitive setting

"good customer service 24 7 negatives: sensors for camera not always accurate ignores humans sometimes even on most sensitive setting and alerts when there is nothing there or even from the rain sometimes"
74.8%

good lighting

"good lighting gives a clear night picture"
74.8%

working flawlessly

"everything rides on the app and live views working flawlessly"
74.7%

clear instructions

"amazing quality arrived well packaged and with clear instructions"
74.7%

perform correctly

"have done a little prior research on the product before purchasing it i learnt from previous owners that adding an additional wifi signal booster at a strategic point between the router and the security camera light can enable it to perform correctly"
74.7%

strong signal

"the thing is my internet is really fast and the devices saying strong signal"
74.7%

right setting

"i struggled to get the right setting for the motion at night so i rang ring up and they talked me through and works perfectly now they were very helpful"
74.6%

fast responsive

"it's fast responsive and delivers on all of my requirements"
74.6%

passing cars

"great lights and so good that you can choose your alert zone so the sensor doesn’t just go off every few seconds with passing cars"
74.6%

works fine

"we have it running to a plug socket which isn't ideal i suppose but works fine"
74.6%

fantastic works

"floodlight camera is fantastic works exactly as it should never any connection issues unlike the doorbell!"
74.6%

side bonus

"i will be able to track the wife doing all the washing as a side bonus now"
74.5%

fantastic products

"both are fantastic products"
74.5%

very efficient

"a very efficient hd security camera with built in floodlights two way talk and siren alarm"
74.5%

existing light

"if you are replacing an existing light you can put it up in less than an hour with relatively little experience and you can have it set up through the app in minutes"
74.5%

saved 80 quid

"plus i got it on prime day for 160 so saved 80 quid!"
74.5%

great broadband speed

"i’ve also got the ring doorbell and that is also a little temperamental and when someone rings it and you answer it can take a good few seconds 10 20 for it to go through and i’ve got great broadband speed where that is located at and and at my work office"
74.4%

whole unit

"there is no flex cable in the box which you will need for a new installation don't overtighten the screws when attaching the backplate to the wall and camera the plastic is quite weak at these points and prone to break at which point they want the whole unit back!"
74.4%

just screws

"the unit you get has a built in box which just screws to the wall and then its just live neutral and earth connections as normal"
74.4%

excellent value

"lights are very bright motion detection is good and considering the price they are excellent value for money"
74.4%

generally great

"generally great"
74.4%

will probably

"very clear images and will probably purchase another unit"
74.4%

pretty good

"looks pretty good too!"
74.4%

very helpful

"initially i was a bit apprehensive about a wi fi enabled security solution but the reviews and online documentation were very helpful in helping to ease my concerns"
74.4%

network analysis tools

"phones tablets and laptops etc have strong signals wherever the family goes and network analysis tools confirm the cameras have maximum reception"
74.4%

good security lights

"good security lights with camera"
74.4%

proper security cameras

"if you want a reliable security cameras don’t go for these get proper security cameras if you want reliability"
74.4%

lights activate

"night vision is good and full colour when lights activate"
74.4%

were happy

"we were happy with this security camera and with the added £2"
74.3%

siren alarm

"a very efficient hd security camera with built in floodlights two way talk and siren alarm"
74.3%

quality network

"as with anything which is streaming via your wifi network you will need a good quality network to fully appreciate this light"
74.3%

great ease

"had it installed with great ease!"
74.3%

better quality

"the good things about it are the colour night vision which is way better quality than b&w night vision you can make out peoples faces better"
74.3%

added bonus

"also has the added bonus of a siren and bright lights"
74.3%

bright light

"bright light that can illuminate a large area"
74.3%

phone amazing

"picture quality is superb detection brilliant and feedback to your phone amazing !"
74.3%

bright enough

"the flood light is a bit brighter than the flood light it replaced which wasn't a bad thing as i felt the existing one wasn't bright enough"
74.3%

considerably more

"having looked at alternative cameras of similar setup the fees are considerably more some companies charge as much as £30 per month"
74.3%

simple and user

"setup was extremely simple and user friendly easy to configure with my secure wi fi network"
74.3%

price easy

"on price easy to install quality and performance will be adding more"
74.2%

looks stylish

"looks stylish and gives peace of mind"
74.2%

good stuff

"good stuff does what it say easy installation"
74.2%

really safe

"ring products are so well made quality of the recordings are superb this is the fourth product we have bought would highly recommend makes you feel really safe"
74.2%

great item

"great item would recommend"
74.2%

bright spots

"great picture super bright spots illuminate over a huge range and the motion detection is perfect"
74.1%

strong signals

"phones tablets and laptops etc have strong signals wherever the family goes and network analysis tools confirm the cameras have maximum reception"
74.1%

fitting and setup

"all are well made require minimal assembly and fitting and come with the necessary tools and simple clear instructions for fitting and setup each product gives fantastic night views as the lights come on so show full colour no ghost white eyes and images they are reliable adjustable and give a real sense of relief security wise when away from home"
74.1%

scheduled installation

"i scheduled installation with a qualified electrician and they were both installed and power on within 1 hour"
74.1%

well worth

"it’s well worth every penny"
74.1%

good device

"good device reaches my router fine as does my doorbell etc but limited to 2ghz network"
74.1%

totally safe

"love it all feel totally safe"
74.1%

fantastic light

"fantastic light"
74.1%

quick and easy

"the app is easy to use and installation was quick and easy for the electrician"
74.0%

professional electrician

"the installation does require a professional electrician and should not be attempted on your own"
74.0%

awesome best item

"ring is awesome best item i have bought for security does exactly what it says on the tin!"
74.0%

crystal clear

"the camera is crystal clear and easy to set up on your phone"
74.0%

picture clarity

"picture clarity is fantastic and for a small fee recordings are stored for 30 days ongoingly"
74.0%

great lighting

"as a result i have cheaper running cost security in the back garden and great lighting all in one device"
73.9%

best purchase

"best purchase in while"
73.9%

great quality video

"great quality video"
73.9%

strong material

"the weight of the metal camera is significant and therefore the plate should be made of metal or some other strong material"
73.9%

smart phone

"i had to juggle my landline and smart phone at the same time!"
73.9%

fairly strong

"the wifi signal strength needs to be fairly strong for smooth video stream"
73.9%

qualified electrician

"i scheduled installation with a qualified electrician and they were both installed and power on within 1 hour"
73.9%

rear garden security

"added to ring doorbell for rear garden security"
73.9%

good thing

"i would like to be able to have a lower level of light sometimes as it does look like the sun went supernova when it lights up in the night but i suppose that is a good thing!"
73.9%

system aswell

"we have needed an outdoor floodlight for ages and now we have the added plus of a security system aswell as being able to integrate it with our smart home"
73.9%

quality and ease

"really like the build quality and ease of set up"
73.9%

pretty handy

"pretty handy!"
73.8%

quality colour

"with good quality colour and motion detecting"
73.8%

very impressed

"got two of these as well as the doorbell and have to say i am very impressed!"
73.8%

dumbest criminals

"the siren feature is great to have in the event that you do disturb someone at the rear of your property you won't need to open a door or go out just activate the alarm and 'shout' through the intercom system and i am guessing that even the dumbest criminals will decide this is not a house to spend time at!"
73.8%

real peace

"this product is great gives us real peace of mind and the quality of the video is good"
73.8%

placing this

"be aware of placing this in site of the smoke from from your boiler's flue"
73.7%

excellent illumination

"floodlights provide excellent illumination to 15m sq garden and camera lens provides full visibility"
73.7%

totally exceeded

"totally exceeded my expectations"
73.7%

great coverage

"great coverage when we are aboard can see what’s going on we will be buying another one"
73.7%
...

Compare Emotion analysis

Google Nest Cam Indoor Smart Security Camera

Positive tone

Neutral tone

Negative tone

31.0% 35.7% 33.3%
  neutral 35.4%
  worry 28.6%
  happiness 17.6%
  fun 5.9%
  relief 3.5%
  sadness 3.1%
  love 1.9%
  hate 1.2%
  surprise 1.2%
  enthusiasm 0.9%
  fear 0.2%
  anger 0.2%
  empty 0.2%
Ring Floodlight Cam | HD Security Camera with Built-in Floodlights, ..

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Neutral tone

Negative tone

38.1% 31.4% 30.5%
  neutral 31.4%
  happiness 26.9%
  worry 25.2%
  love 3.6%
  fun 3.1%
  sadness 2.9%
  relief 2.4%
  fear 1.2%
  hate 1.2%
  surprise 1.0%
  enthusiasm 0.7%
  joy 0.5%

* analysis performed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, data for the analysis has been gathered from multiple publicly accessible sources.
** strength is the level of sentiment expressed in a sentence, phrase or keyword. It ranges from 0 to 100%
prices and sales statistics are updated daily

last analysis update 2024-04-22