expiredCobalt_Blue_FF posted Aug 24, 2023 12:12 PM
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expiredCobalt_Blue_FF posted Aug 24, 2023 12:12 PM
Wyze Wired Outdoor Wi-Fi Floodlight Home Security Camera
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The camera is no different than their regular V3 if you are familiar with those. It has a nice wide field of view. The HD isn't clear enough to read a license plate, but plenty of detail for whatever else you need. Look at review pictures on Amazon if you want to see the clarity. I have this setup on a front corner of my house. The only problem I have is that headlights coming down the street at night trigger the motion sensing. I've got the street zoned out of the detection area, so I'm just talking about the headlight wash going across the yard.
For the floodlight itself, you can have it activate via the camera motion sensing, or it's own PIR (radar type) sensing. Due to headlights, I have mine set to PIR motion only, which works out to about 20ish feet. Deer, cats and an opossum have activated the flood PIR motion sensing. You can dim the lights 0-100%. I'd say mine have a 1-2 sec delay between sensing motion and turning on. PIR sensor detects motion 270°. I can't completely verify that because I have a downspout blocking a little of it.
I have four Wyze cams and a Reolink. I think they all have quirks you have to learn. Wyze are good cameras for slightly above newbie level and great bang for your buck. They aren't perfect and do have little annoyances. Btw, the Pro video quality is only slightly better. I wish they could produce some 5mp cameras for a good price.
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Eufy never had this issue as it knows to restart itself and reconnect. However, I have another issue with Eufy in that their outdoor cams sometimes miss events (their indoor cams don't have this issue) and also that the Eufy camera (both indoor and outdoor ones) corrupts the sd card sometimes when it gets too full and you have to re-format it to get it working again (meaning that you lose all the footage on it).
1080p on the Wyze cam is also pretty low as Eufy now has 2k and even 4k versions of their cams. But I will say that the Wyze cam has better low light quality than Eufy, though that doesn't really matter since this is a flood light.
also FOV is way too narrow for a floodlight
Eufy never had this issue as it knows to restart itself and reconnect. However, I have another issue with Eufy in that their outdoor cams sometimes miss events (their indoor cams don't have this issue) and also that the Eufy camera (both indoor and outdoor ones) corrupts the sd card sometimes when it gets too full and you have to re-format it to get it working again (meaning that you lose all the footage on it).
1080p on the Wyze cam is also pretty low as Eufy now has 2k and even 4k versions of their cams. But I will say that the Wyze cam has better low light quality than Eufy, though that doesn't really matter since this is a flood light.
Ive prob had to power cycle a camera less than 5 times in 5 years
Eufy never had this issue as it knows to restart itself and reconnect. However, I have another issue with Eufy in that their outdoor cams sometimes miss events (their indoor cams don't have this issue) and also that the Eufy camera (both indoor and outdoor ones) corrupts the sd card sometimes when it gets too full and you have to re-format it to get it working again (meaning that you lose all the footage on it).
1080p on the Wyze cam is also pretty low as Eufy now has 2k and even 4k versions of their cams. But I will say that the Wyze cam has better low light quality than Eufy, though that doesn't really matter since this is a flood light.
Corrupt sd cards may indicate its a fake sd card which is rampant at Amazon. I got a cheap pny sd card and my fire tv 2 ate through two of them on separate devices. Also there are endurance sd crads are more appropriate.
Ive prob had to power cycle a camera less than 5 times in 5 years
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Corrupt sd cards may indicate its a fake sd card which is rampant at Amazon. I got a cheap pny sd card and my fire tv 2 ate through two of them on separate devices. Also there are endurance sd crads are more appropriate.
As for the corrupt sd card, it's not a counterfeit issue, because I buy the sd cards directly from Samsung and they even RMA them when I send the corrupted cards back to them. I've had a eufy cam break a Samsung endurance pro 128gb sd card before as well after a year or two of use. I never get corrupted sd card issues from my Wyze cams. There's something weird about the Eufy cams that corrupts the sd card after a few months. It's been happening to all my Eufy cams and tends to happen when they're full. Reformatting the SD card whenever the card gets full.
That reminds me that one other difference between Wyze and Eufy is that Wyze cams support large sd cards like 256gb while the Eufy cams only support up to 128gb. But also as others said, browsing through Wyze's app to find old footage in the SD card is clumsy and slow. Sometimes it even glitches so that the video doesn't have sound nor play at all. The only thing consistently working is their cloud events. I just stick to their free cloud uploads via their "pay-whatever-you-want" Cam Plus Lite subscription plan. It works well.
Ive prob had to power cycle a camera less than 5 times in 5 years
probably on some watch list for having so many.
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