“the nest wired 2nd gen doorbell and the nest floodlight and or outdoor cams are pretty nice. Now the downside is they are not “HomeKit” compatible out of the box but with the starling hub these things are incredible in the Homekit environment.”
“With this new doorbell, the video is taller and more narrow. I get notifications immediately, but when I look at the "photo", it's a short video clip and doesn't even show me the person or thing that it saw.”
“Camera is much lower resolution and doesn't handle shade/ silhouettes very well. We stream our doorbell to a Nest Home Max most all day and the gen 2 is very narrow on the display (both in FOV and actual screen size).”
“Switched to the Google Nest Doorbell wired 2nd Gen + Starling hub and it's rock solid. I don't know what it is about their design that everyone else can't seem to replicate, but it just simply doesn't overheat.”
“I have 2 Google Nest doorbell wired 2nd Gen wired and 2 outside cams wired and they work well. My notifications come in on 2 or 3 seconds.”
“The doorbell is pretty much useless without the subscription which is the biggest drawback given the cost of it. Without a subscription it only stores video for 3 hours, so if anything happens overnight your video is gone by the morning.”
“Based on my experience thus far, I can recommend that you consider upgrading if you have the funds to do so.”
“I "upgraded" from the original Nest Hello wired doorbell to the wired, 2nd gen, and have had NOTHING but issues. Live video is choppy / constantly drops and even after a few factory resets (as suggested by the Google support team) it doesn't fix it.”
“I bought a 2nd gen Nest Doorbell (wired) and it is not even close to the same experience. The video quality is not nearly as good, the aspect ratio is completely different (portrait mode basically instead of landscape), the functionality in the Google Home app isn't nearly as intuitive or extensive as the Nest app.”
“I have the Nest Doorbell Wired 2nd Gen.”