Wasserstein Solar Panel, Solar Panel Charger for Google Nest Cam Outdoor or Indoor, Battery - 2.5W Solar Power - Camera Solar Panels Made for Google Nest (2 Pack)

WORKS AS DESCRIBED

High quality, charges much better than cheaper ones.

Five stars for product quality and ease of attaching to camera.. The camera it is connected to no longer shows the battery symbol but does say the camera can’t record 24/7 because “ This camera is using solar power. It can't record 24/7 video history unless it's connected to line power”. Will see. The area of this camera I would have to run several extension chords to have line power and I prefer to not have that running across the yard. Will update in about a month before my return window is closed to see if I’m keeping it and it functions properly.

These work really well - I haven't had to charge my cameras once in months of use, even in New England where the winter days are cloudy and short. I do wish the cable was shorter as having it coiled up looks a bit ugly.

Edited to say that the seller reached out after the review and rectified the problem. Excellent customer service. Gave 4 stars only because the item did not work. I have had ring products before that worked great but this one won’t charge my device.

Update 10/10/24 Well, I’m sorry to say that I forgot to do the update on this. But for good reason… I have now had the replacement up in place for over a year now and I have had zero issues with it. It has constantly maintained the charge on my camera, even through last years winter, where I receive less sunlight up here in Western Washington. I would like to thank the fantastic customer support people for providing me a replacement device that not only fixed the issue, but has outlived the original product. I’m happy to update this review to a five star. Update - 5/28/23 - I received a replacement panel from the customer support reps of the product. It has resolved the failed device status and I am upping the review to 3 stars. I will provide additional information in approximately 4 months. That duration of time will be after the original one died. Original review - Easy to install. Used the same brand 2-in-1 gutter mount for the panel, as I already had the camera mounted above my garage. The cable management clips the panel comes with are garbage and I ended up using my own. The panel worked from Jan 31st when it was installed, through May 4th (possibly stopped working earlier). TL:DR - stopped working just outside warranty period Story time... I had some landscapers doing some work putting bark down in the planters in my back yard. The bark had been delivered to the front driveway, so naturally there was a lot of activity in the driveway where the camera watches. Due to this, the battery in the Nest camera drained much faster than normal. "The solar panel must not have been able to charge it as fast as the camera was consuming," I thought. I charged the camera from USB wall power, like I had at least one other time since getting the solar panel. It charged to 100%, I got the notification on my phone that it was full, got out the ladder, reinstalled the camera, and reattached the solar panel cable. When I got down from the ladder, I checked the phone to make sure the viewing angle was good. The camera was showing a battery percentage of 100%. When plugged into solar, (on the iPhone anyway) the app shows an infinity symbol instead of a battery percentage. So for whatever reason, there was no power going to the camera. I got back up on the ladder and made sure the cord was sitting snugly in the port and was in the correct orientation, yep. I then moved the ladder to the panel and made sure there was nothing on it that was blocking sunlight. Looked clean to me. Still no power. It's a simple device. Not much for an end user to mess up. Panel points towards sun, attached cord plugs into camera. It is unacceptable that a device with no moving parts, designed to sit and absorb sunlight all day, could fail so quickly. I am extremely disappointed and frustrated with the failure of the Wasserstein solar panel for my Nest camera. Despite following all the instructions (as limited as they were) and ensuring that everything was installed correctly, the panel failed and is no longer charging the camera battery... just outside of its warranty period, too. This cost me not only the money spent on the panel and mount but also my time and effort in installing it. Now, I am left with the options of either paying someone to run a cord into my garage and install a new outlet or going back to manually charging the camera every so often.

There's a lot to report here, but the biggest issue by far is the lack of recording events when it definitely should be recording. Very disappointed so far and will return this item if I cannot get the issues resolved. First, my Google Nest Cam Battery Indoor/Outdoor camera has a very good full bars connection to my Netgear Orbi wifi router, according to the Orbi app. My camera is mounted above my garage on my stucco wall. My iPhone gets the same type connection from the same spot where the camera is when I check that, full bars. Google nest camera power shut down first night I had it connected to solar panel, and I had fully charged the camera first before connecting everything. I was very surprised at this when I saw this in the Google Home app the next morning I plug in the power cable from the solar panel to camera and a pop-up message on my phone that it's not making a good connection. Then I look at Google home and see video from the camera, and showing the Solar connect on the battery status page. The biggest issue, as I mentioned, is that the camera only records maybe 1 out of 20 events when connected to the solar panel....that it should easily record. It recorded a lot more when it was using just the internal battery alone. The solar panel has made my camera operate much worse. I have tried various settings for the camera, then tried alternate settings, and then again different settings. Nothing I try works. Tonight me and my wife went for a bike ride. We spent at least 5 minutes getting ready in the driveway where the camera has a perfect view. Then 25 minutes later we came back home, again spending some time in the driveway before putting the bikes away. I checked Google Home when I came in to find that the camera did not record either event. I have my Google Home settings set correctly so that is should record these type events. This is a common theme since connecting to the solar panel, and after having this thing Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, I'm ready to return it. I instead am going to have to go the route of plugging the camera in to an electrical outlet, which I don't have outside and I'm not about to drill through my stucco, but I am going to see if I can get this done somehow. Messaged my electrician today. I've read countless possible solutions online too and none of them have worked. The product page on Amazon says Frequently returned item. Now I see why. What a complete disappointment.

They actually work! I had had bad luck with solar panels in the past for my Google Next Cameras but these seem to be working great. After a week, the cameras are still fully charged, despite clouds and rain. ONE NOTE: You should charge your cameras before you attache dthe solar panels. They seem to be better at maintaining the charge than charging them from 0%

No problems as described

Mantiene la videocamera sempre in carica, ma il meno è che la videocamera con questa carica registra solo eventi.

屋外用Google Nest Camに接続しています。 パネルは、倉庫の屋根に置いているので常に水平ですが、半年以上、問題なく稼働しています。 "MADE FOR GOOGLE"なので、Google Homeアプリで見ると、Nest Cam は 本機を”電源”ではなく、"太陽光" と認識しています。

Facile à utiliser, il suffit de le brancher. Peu encombrant. Je vais en acheter pour mes autres caméras.

I should have bought this as soon as a bought a camera. It keeps the camera at 100% all the time. The unit was easy to install.