I recently purchased and installed a three pack of Nest Cams primarily for monitoring our cats when we're out. Installation was a breeze and had zero issues. All of the cameras are monitoring smallish rooms in a small apartment, and all are about 7 feet above the floor. Now that they're installed, the wake up sensitivity is overwhelmingly disappointing.
The Cams will randomly alert to when the cats are moving around. For example, I'll get an alert that the Cam in the kitchen sees an animal. Great. I check the alert, and see that he's munching on some food. That's good too. However, he had to move across the fields of view of two other cameras (bedroom -> living room -> kitchen) that didn't trigger, not to mention enter the 4-5 feet of space in the field of view of the kitchen camera before getting to the food bowl. Another example is that I'll get an alert in the living room, only to see the one of the cats are grooming themselves, but with 5-6 hours of zero activity before that (the cat had to get to the place that they're grooming themselves somehow...).
I've tried creating zones for each camera, but that doesn't help, they still randomly trigger. I've increased the sensitivity to the max for all cameras, but again, no difference. I turned on the feature to trigger on the detection of any motion, figuring maybe the camera just didn't realize it's seeing an animal, but again, no difference. They trigger the moment they see a person, but randomly for our animals.
This is especially disappointing since this $350 pack of Nest Cams are replacing a pair of $30 Wyze cams I grabbed from amazon a few years ago that triggered on every bit of motion and required no subscription... Luckily I bought the Nest Cams from Costco so returning will be a breeze, but hoping to get some insight here before I give up on them.
