Google Nest Doorbell (Battery)

If the Nest Doorbell Battery version is recording a lot of events, the battery will drain despite being hardwired. Hardwiring the doorbell charges the battery at a trickle charge, about 1% an hour in my experience.

Well to answer your question, we have the wired version. It actually still has a small battery in it, due to how ringing the physical chime works. That battery died after a year or two, and would cause the doorbell to restart any time the button was pressed. Simply disabling the physical chime fixed the problem. It has been working fine now for 4 years. Longer than our ring lasted.

I bought the new Google Nest Doorbell (Battery) and run it wired. I can't even tell what the battery level is at. On the battery menu it just shows an infinity symbol and says "Plugged in". It's been running that way since I bought it months ago and I have all the settings maxed out for video quality, sensitivity, event length and event type recording.

Seeing as you're only three days into your purchase, my honest advice would be to return it. You're still well within the return window, and it might save you a lot of future frustration. I've been a longtime user, but my own experience with these products has been incredibly disappointing.

Can confirm, this thing is crap. Can't operate on wire alone, battery will always come into play. I returned mine within a week because it couldn't operate in Canadian winters, wired or battery hardly below -10C and it was useless.

just three days later, I got an "empty battery" notification, despite the Google Home app constantly showing the "plugged in" infinity symbol.

The Google Nest Doorbell (battery) absolutely cannot operate wired as advertised. Rather than operating as a wired device, it simply uses my house as a mediocre battery extender.

I have a wired battery one with a 'weak'ish transformer per the installer and haven't had a single issue, even on 10 degree nights.

I recently learned this myself. The wired, battery doorbell uses the battery as the primary source of power. While connected to wired power, the camera is still running off the battery. Wired power only trickle charges the battery up to 80% in standby mode, i.e. while not recording or being viewed.

Just chiming in to say I agree with all of this! We have the nest battery doorbell, 2 wired cams, 2 wireless cams, and the cam on one of the hubs (plus like 11 GH speakers) and the starling hub has made things stunningly easier.

Mine was always low get when the temp dropped below 55-ish. Which in New England is half the year.

I have both one with and one without a battery. When the one with the battery wears down (you access the camera and forget to shut it off and it runs in background on your device) it shuts off and you cannot access the battery until it's TOTALLY recharged. The other Nest Doorbell runs off just transformer power (always works, never down unless power is off)