My nest cam (magnetic mount; mounted on my back porch; about 2 years old) is not recognizing events. It picks up when I go in and out the back door or sit on the back porch; when I walk my dogs in the back yard; and gives motion alerts if my wind chimes move, but I have now had items stolen from my backyard twice and I get "no events recorded" for the occurrence.
In late August, someone stole 2 mosquito torches from our backyard; the torches were visible on camera when checking live the day before, but no event was detected or alerted for when someone walked into my yard and walked back out with the 2 torches. Okay, fine. Technical issues happen, and while this is annoying, it's not a huge deal.
September 16, someone stole a large white yeti cooler from beside my porch. It is very clearly visible in recorded events from the day before, but for Sep 16 it simply says "no events recorded". We are talking a Tundra 160: a 9 cubic ft, 50 pound cooler that was bright white and sitting beside my porch; the camera has no problem flagging cats sitting on top of the cooler, or flagging me grabbing potting soil or firewood from <6" away from the cooler, but someone can pick up and walk off with this cooler and the camera just...doesn't even notice.
Am I upset about the cooler? Of course. Do I recognize that I probably shouldn't have left it beside the porch knowing that the camera had already malfunctioned? Absolutely. But I am most upset that I am paying for Nest Aware Plus and not only did the (fairly expensive) camera not flag an event, but because it is a wireless camera, I can't even pull the continuous feed and see what happened.
