I’ve made a mistake and got hold of a new Nest battery cam, it is absolutely useless. Given the numerous reports that these simply don’t detect events I am puzzled how they can continue to be sold as a security solution?
As long as I only get burgled by very slow moving criminals who look directly in to the camera from close range, I should be OK. But since I can walk past my camera, which points directly down my driveway (in fact I can DRIVE AN SUV past it) without being detected I’m not sure it will help should bad things happen. I have it set to detect all motion, and high sensitivity.
It is, however, quite good at detecting the back of people walking away, hit rate on that is probably 80%. Otherwise, I’d say it gets ############% of people walking towards it. I’ve set up zones, I’ve set to max sensitivity, I’m just joining the long queue of people disappointed with having spent so much on such a poor product. I also have a Nest doorbell, which picks up all the people who walked undetected past the camera. It’s interesting to compare the histories of both products.
