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I upgraded I can't remember why exactly. I think they gave me something for free to do it. It was only £50 a year more expensive but it gave you as many cameras as you want. We then got an indoor nest IQ as a baby monitor so made sense to upgrade for that. We can review how well he sleeps during the night the following morning too.
I think there was an offer for a free Google Hub or something along those lines.
 
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Well. I got the doorbell. It appears to me that it isn't actually 3 hours of recording (ie you have 3 hours of clips)

It is only 3 hours in the past!

So when talking to Google support o got this reply....

Upon checking on this, the recording is limited for 3 hours of footage. You can save a footage that you want to review unless otherwise you've subscribed to the Nest Aware subscription for an additional recording features.


I took that to be 3 hours of video. No matter how long ago it was recorded!
 
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Well. I got the doorbell. It appears to me that it isn't actually 3 hours of recording (ie you have 3 hours of clips)

It is only 3 hours in the past!

So when talking to Google support o got this reply....

Upon checking on this, the recording is limited for 3 hours of footage. You can save a footage that you want to review unless otherwise you've subscribed to the Nest Aware subscription for an additional recording features.


I took that to be 3 hours of video. No matter how long ago it was recorded!

I will see how this works out next week when our free subscription expires.

We are also meant I thought to be receiving Halloween ring tones today but haven't seen anything yet.
 
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I will see how this works out next week when our free subscription expires.

We are also meant I thought to be receiving Halloween ring tones today but haven't seen anything yet.

I'm in one mind to send it back. 3 hours means if anything happens over night (vandals or whatever) it will be lost.

If it was 6 or 12 hours that would be fine. But 3 is not helpful.


It's a shame. The doorbell is great. It's perfect with the tall. Rather than wide aspect. It's quick to notify and has picked up everything.
I feel a bit mislead by the reply from Google '3 hours of footage' does not imply to me a only 3.hours into the past
 
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I'm in one mind to send it back. 3 hours means if anything happens over night (vandals or whatever) it will be lost.

If it was 6 or 12 hours that would be fine. But 3 is not helpful.


It's a shame. The doorbell is great. It's perfect with the tall. Rather than wide aspect. It's quick to notify and has picked up everything.
I feel a bit mislead by the reply from Google '3 hours of footage' does not imply to me a only 3.hours into the past

Yeah when I looked at mine when I was logged in at home.nest.com I saw the clips section and from that it seems as though you get 3 hours of storage rather than just the last 3 hours. The latter doesn't make sense if that's how it is but I'm waiting to contrast how it seems next week when our complimentary Nest Aware subscription ends.
 
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Yeah nothing can do about fox if you're not home. They are pretty secure. But foxes are little ***** and often get in some how.

Would be more if I saw a sick hen and could message a neighbour.
The camera wouldn't need to differentiate between human and not. Would just need to not ignore animals.

This would be separate from the doorbell. Which would be a traditional doorbell.

Bonus. My chicken run is near where I keep my ebike. So having eyes on that would be worth it.
I’ve a Nest outdoor camera, I get a person alert when it’s Human and when the dog walks past I get a motion alert. You can then enable the speaker and talk via the cameras microphone, that would certainly work for the fox situation
 
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I’ve a Nest outdoor camera, I get a person alert when it’s Human and when the dog walks past I get a motion alert. You can then enable the speaker and talk via the cameras microphone, that would certainly work for the fox situation

The camera has a microphone?
I never really checked because I just didn't even think it would be a feature.

That's definitely worth it.
I suspit would identify a fox as a dog
 
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I'm a bit surprised that the software doesn't make use of more AI to distinguish between actual mass being in a zone vs just a headlight or similar. The motion detection therefore results in huge number of false positives.

Anyone know if it will detect a person in a zone without the whole person being in that zone?
 
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The camera has a microphone?
I never really checked because I just didn't even think it would be a feature.

That's definitely worth it.
I suspit would identify a fox as a dog
Yes you can speak/shout/scream over it. If you have one indoors you can speak and control Google or Amazon over it to
 
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