Onn’s outdoor floodlight camera brings Gemini support for under $80

At a glance:

• Walmart’s Onn Outdoor Floodlight Camera Hardwired is available now for $77 at Walmart stores and Walmart.com.
• The hardwired floodlight cam records in 1080p with a 130.5-degree field of view and adds Google Home and Gemini support.
• The price undercuts Google’s Nest Cam with floodlight, which lists for $279.99 and is currently $100 off at many retailers.

What changed

Walmart has expanded its Onn outdoor camera lineup with the Onn Outdoor Floodlight Camera Hardwired, a budget-priced security camera that adds floodlights to a hardwired outdoor monitoring setup. The new model is available now for $77, making it one of the more aggressive price points for a smart-home camera with integrated lighting.

The camera keeps the same headline imaging specs as Walmart’s Onn Outdoor Camera Plug-In: 1080p resolution and a 130.5-degree field of view. The main difference is the floodlight hardware, which turns the outdoor camera from a passive monitoring device into one that can illuminate a yard, driveway, porch, or other exterior space when activity is detected.

That positioning matters because the Onn model is not just a generic camera with a lower price tag; it is also designed to sit inside Google’s smart-home stack. For shoppers already using Google Home, the cheaper Onn option could make more sense than buying into a higher-priced first-party Nest device, especially where basic outdoor monitoring is the priority.

How Google Home and Gemini fit in

The Floodlight Camera integrates with Google Home and Gemini, according to the listing details. With the Google Home Premium Advanced plan, users can access features such as custom visual event-based alerts and can ask Gemini about recorded video history in natural language.

Those capabilities are important because the camera’s value is not limited to the $77 hardware price. The Google Home integration gives it a path to richer notifications and searchable video context, while Gemini support points toward the kind of AI-assisted home monitoring that Google has been pushing across its Nest and smart-home products.

There is still an open question about the day-to-day experience. It is not yet clear how the Onn Floodlight Camera’s user experience compares with the Onn Outdoor Camera Plug-In, even though the two appear to share core camera specs and substantial Google Home integration.

Price comparison and what to watch

Google’s Nest Cam with floodlight remains the obvious comparison point. It offers the same 1080p resolution and a similar 130-degree field of view for a retail price of $279.99, and it is currently $100 off from many retailers.

Even with that discount, the Nest Cam with floodlight is still $100 more expensive than Onn’s $77 model. That price gap could be decisive for cost-sensitive buyers, though it also raises questions about differences in build quality, installation, video storage, alert accuracy, and long-term support that are not fully answered by the current listing.

Known details for now are straightforward: the Onn Outdoor Floodlight Camera Hardwired is available now, it costs $77, it is sold through Walmart stores and Walmart.com, and it supports Google Home and Gemini. The next things to watch are hands-on reviews of the floodlight behavior, the quality of Google Home alerts, and how useful Gemini’s natural-language video-history queries prove to be in real-world use.