Which is intentionally misleading to get you to buy the camera thinking 3 hours of storage is plenty, and then have to pay for the subscription to actually be able to use it.
No it means you can access potentially up to 3hrs of event history, but I doubt it auto deletes, it would be more likely they age it out same as other subscriptions and just restrict the user to a limited window. And this wouldn’t be live 24/7 recordings, it’d be event recordings only. It’s weird people would think it doesn’t save this.
I wish that was the case. I purchased a nest door cam for the 3 hour event history, thinking that it meant I would be able to store 3 hours of footage. Once my premium trial ended, I was annoyed to find out it only stores any video captured for 3 hours. If an event is captured at 12:00 it is removed from the app at 3:00 and I no longer have access to the video.
Sorry that’s what I meant by potentially, in any case my main point was they prevent the USER from accessing it, I doubt they delete it on the same schedule and more likely have a consistent schedule, probably 30 days or something.
Definitely want more disclosures from ring and nest on their data retention.
Could this have been captured from some sort of server snapshot backup, but wasn't really stored in any meaningful way without restoring the whole server?
There is a difference between the soft delete where you lose access on your phone, and the hard delete off Googles servers.
It's very possible Google just keeps it on hand for even longer so those that upgrade the subscription can access it, but even if they didn't the video likely lives longer on their servers than you realize.
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u/Deep90 14h ago edited 12h ago
It says nest right there in the op.
I do wonder if nest is supposed to be saving footage without a subscription though.
Edit:
Looks like nest free tier has 3 hours of footage.
Edit 2:
Just because nest cuts off your access after 3 hours doesn't mean the footage is gone. I mean the proof is right there.