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If you want more it’s £2.99 a month for 14-day cloud storage.
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You get 24 hours of cloud storage with video downloads and smart alerts free, plus a good 30-second summary of the day’s action in the app. Open the Logitech Circle app on your phone, connect the camera to wifi, place the camera somewhere and you’re good to go – no need for another box or subscription. The little globe-shaped camera is simple to set up and use.
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The Logitech Circle 2 series of cameras that start at £169 for wired, or £199 for battery-powered, prove that feature packed flexibility needn’t be complicated. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer The Logitech Circle 2: simple, flexible and adaptable. Verdict: It’s expensive, but if you need high-quality continuous monitoring, the Nest Cam IQ is the smartest of smart cameras. You can talk through the camera via the app, or even access Google Assistant by saying “Hey, Google” to the indoor version of the camera like one of Google’s smart speakers. It worked well after undergoing a bit of training to spot that me with glasses on, me with a hat and me buckling under the weight of Christmas shopping were all the same person. You also get smarter detection of events, activity zones, clips and time lapses in the app, brilliant motion gif alerts, and face recognition.īy tagging faces with names as they’re detected you can get the camera to recognise whether a friend or family member has shown up rather than a stranger. Things get a lot smarter with a £4 per month 5-day Nest Aware subscription, adding continuous cloud recording, not just motion events, which makes it the best here for capturing everything that happens indoors or outside. Without a Nest Aware subscription you get live video feeds, motion alerts and three hours of image snapshots of events in the Nest app on your smartphone or tablet. An indoor plug comes with it, meant to be threaded through the wall into the back of the camera, but a weatherproof alternative is available to buy for £49 if needed. The outdoor version is shaped like a large spotlight and is screwed into the wall on a rotating, angled bracket. The indoor Nest Cam IQ is a relatively attractive lollipop-style camera with wifi built in, which can be wall or ceiling mounted, but most will probably just put it on a bookshelf or something similar.
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But it also means you get the best-in-class camera, which captures up to 1080p video in HDR, a good 130-degree field-of-view and night vision.
Both versions need plugging into the mains, which limits where you can put them compared to battery-powered products. Google’s Nest Cam IQ is a wired camera available in both indoor and outdoor variants. The smartest camera here is also one of the most expensive. The Nest Cam IQ: excellent – but not cheap… Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer Verdict: The Ring Floodlight Cam has bright lights, a good superwide-angle camera and a siren making for a good deterrent, but wiring it in requires a bit more than DIY. You get live view and alerts for free, but cloud recording costs £2.50 a month for 60 days of event recording. The camera records up to 1080p video and has a wide 270-degree field of view, digital zoom and night vision, and you can talk through the camera via the app. The lights can be turned on manually too. The camera is weatherproof and comes with two-year theft protection, in case someone is brazen enough to unscrew it from your wall. Not that the foxes invading my back garden paid any attention to either. You can also configure whether to trigger the floodlights, and there’s a loud siren built into it for good measure. You can set motion zones, filter alerts by size of object or just people, the time of day or day of the week.
You can activate a live stream at any time through the app, but it’s the motion-activated smart alerts that are the main draw. Once that hurdle is overcome, setup is straightforward using the Ring app on a smartphone or tablet. Larger and more capable than its battery-driven siblings, the Floodlight Cam comes in black or white but requires wiring into the mains, most probably by an electrician. The Ring Floodlight Cam combines, as the name might suggest, two articulated LED floodlights and a camera in one device, which make it perfect for replacement of traditional security lights in the back garden. The Ring Floodlight Cam: lights, camera, siren… Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer
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