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eufy Security Outdoor Cam Pro 2K is a wired 2K Wi-Fi surveillance camera that is completely free of the bounds of an external system hub- instead storing all the information locally in the 32gb SD card that comes with it. Check your high-quality, encrypted, 2K footage whenever you need to via the eufy Security app and only be alerted of the things that matter with AI Human and Pet detection. Outdoor Cam Pro is not compatible with eufy HomeBase. The USB adapter is not waterproof, a cover is required for outdoor use.
Additional Note; Pretty sure all time low. These are the 2k cameras, but only available in the color black.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/eufy...Id=6460115
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Length of footage - A battery powered camera is not always on to conserve power. Most use PIR (Passive Infrared) sensor to detect motion. Once the sensor detects motion, Camera turns on and starts recording. No matter how good is the speed of camera being turned on, it is not zero, a wired camera starts recording as soon as it detects motion so in most of the cases a wired camera will capture more.
Preroll - Since they are always on, most of the wired cameras keep a rolling buffer of live footage in memory(3-6 seconds). Once they detects motion, they can add this footage to the clip. This gives you clip with footage of what happened a few seconds even before camera detected motion. This combined with above makes a massive difference in experience specially for doorbells where you only get back of delivery guy in most cases with a battery powered camera,
2X7 Recording - Most of the battery powered cameras will not give you an option to record 24X7 even when connected to a power source. There are few exceptions like google with their Gen 2 outdoor camera but most don't
Notification speed - This varies greatly between brands as it depends on a lot of factors like onboard hardware, scale and speed of cloud services, quality of object detection etc but in principle, a wired camera from the same brand will give faster notification then a battery powered camera
My recommendation would be to always go for a wired camera unless power wiring is not at all possible.
Hope this helps.
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The only downside is that it doesn't have live streaming across all devices like Wyze.
Welp, time to sell my Wyze cams.
The only downside is that it doesn't have live streaming across all devices like Wyze.
Welp, time to sell my Wyze cams.
wish I had known it was going out of stock would have bought earlier
With Continuous Video Recording (CVR), Outdoor Cam 2k records continuously, so you can scan through your entire video history: See everything before, during, and after an event." Nothing about downgraded quality (deal is no longer valid so it doesn't matter). All the ptz and stationary indoor 2k cameras I have from this company once updated with the latest firmware record 24/7 at 2k so it's highly unlikely this single later model on the same card format doesn't do the same but anything is possible....
Edit: when you choose continuous recording there is an info button you can click on clicking on that goes to an older article that does say image recording is reduced to 1080p for SD card health however since around December with all my devices at 2K downloading clips shows a clip resolution of 2k, and since December it doesn't pop up a window when you choose continuous recording to tell you that it is dropping the resolution down to 2k. If you are referring to that article my guess is eufy didn't change it when they pushed the changes to all of the cameras. That or suddenly after December they are up converting all of their 1080p recordings when you download it. Between those two options I think it's more likely they forgot to update the article but like I said anything is possible...
Edit 2: apparently it now does both. Downloading motion or sound triggered events gives you a 2K resolution clip the 24/7 viewing if you make a non triggered clip (and download it to your phone) it's only in 1080p. I suppose this is better than forcing all recording activity to 1080p and gives a longer lifespan to the SD cards but considering how cheap SD cards are it seems a little silly to force a switch between resolutions based on a trigger 🤷
IIRC, this is the first time for these to hit this price, is that right? Hopefully, it comes back again.
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chat support - provided all the information - need to email "experts" for further analysis - email "AI" auto responder...
Yes they do. Generic RTSP protocol to Synology surveillance station. I have mine running on it right now