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Google Nest Cams

Google's cheapest cam

Pleased to see that Google has just come to its senses and have stopped charging a subscription for basic web services on its surveillance cameras. Arstechnica has the details.

Now they are worth considering...especially for our parking basement where the connection to our private intranet is spotty.

Google is offering the wired indoor version for $169 as opposed to the nearly $400 bells and whistles battery wifi version but the subscription service is still there at a minimum of $6 per month. The comparison with my two sub $100 Xioami cams is still dreadful.

Xioami wifi cam

Our pair of cams have proved their worth. Both track people and have effective online as well as local storage so that if we do have intruders we will be able to get a rough idea of what they look like and exactly when they looked suspicious. After losing three bikes we are a bit nervous about security.

One of the user comments on the Arstechnica story said that you can’t use wifi for serious security because it can be so easily jammed and pointed to a relatively inexpensive disrupter device that could do it. What they didn't say was that it is totally illegal in Australia and would knock-out all other nine wifis in our building. Ugly.