I bought in to the Dropcams early on. We got one to use as a baby monitor and I really liked it. It was nice getting a video monitor that could be used for something else without being limited to the task of baby monitor. I like that I can see and talk to my kids when I'm at the office. I like a lot of things about it.
When we got a second camera, I liked that the original dropcam iPad app had nice large previews of the video so I could easily monitor all of the rooms at once, then only zoom in when my attention was needed in one room. Then the merge with Nest. Then a terrible UX was generated and an even worse UI was implemented.
After stewing on this for a while, I decided at very least - instead of just complaining - I could show a fix. It's just one screen right now, and while it's not perfect or what I would call "final," it is better. But, Nest set that bar low.
Nest Icon at top with green ring shows acts to open the option to set as away as well as showing status for all Nest Protect units. A unit triggering an alert could replace the house name and the weather information with the name of the alerting unit and the status of the alert.
Clicking the name of the house could open the option to select a different house.
