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eufy Security S380 HomeBase 3

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Eufy has eufy Security S380 HomeBase 3 on sale for $149.99 - $75 when you apply discount code WSUCAHB3EXISTUSERSUS at checkout = $74.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member REALid10t for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • Up to 16 TB Expandable Local Storage* (Additional Storage* Drive Not Included)
  • BionicMind AI Differentiates Family and Strangers
  • HomeBase 3 Centralize Security Management
  • Privacy with AES-128 + RSA-1024 Encryption
  • Expandable storage, support hard drive storage
  • Facial Recognition
  • Human Detection
  • Vehicle Detection
  • Pet Detection
  • LAN Port: 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
  • USB Port: 2 (for charging and data data transfer)
  • SATA Port: 1 (for hard drive connection)
  • CPU: Quad-core ARM Cortex-A55

Editor's Notes

Written by Nate650 | Staff
  • About this deal:
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.78 out of 5 stars based on over 250 Eufy customer reviews.
  • Additional notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Eufy has eufy Security S380 HomeBase 3 on sale for $149.99 - $75 when you apply discount code WSUCAHB3EXISTUSERSUS at checkout = $74.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member REALid10t for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • Up to 16 TB Expandable Local Storage* (Additional Storage* Drive Not Included)
  • BionicMind AI Differentiates Family and Strangers
  • HomeBase 3 Centralize Security Management
  • Privacy with AES-128 + RSA-1024 Encryption
  • Expandable storage, support hard drive storage
  • Facial Recognition
  • Human Detection
  • Vehicle Detection
  • Pet Detection
  • LAN Port: 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
  • USB Port: 2 (for charging and data data transfer)
  • SATA Port: 1 (for hard drive connection)
  • CPU: Quad-core ARM Cortex-A55

Editor's Notes

Written by Nate650 | Staff
  • About this deal:
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.78 out of 5 stars based on over 250 Eufy customer reviews.
  • Additional notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Written by REALid10t

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z32tt
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FYI the HomeBase runs its own hidden SSID 2.4ghz wifi. The transmitting power is insane and you cannot change the wifi channel manually. What this means is that the HomeBase will obliterate your router or AP wifi signal. It'll also screw your Zigbee network too. A workaround is to disassemble the HomeBase and disconnect its wifi antennas -- then set your cameras to run in multi-bridge mode so that they connect to your router's wifi but will still save video to the HomeBase. This requires the HomeBase to be connected to your router directly via ethernet.
aifan
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I think I've had Homebase 3 for a year and I don't know that it was all that useful over putting SD cards in each camera. I guess if you are worried about theft of SD Card that might be the big use case.
tayninh
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Wow…Been waiting for a deal on this and was about to pull the trigger till I saw some poor reviews here and this one from amazon.

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Customer Review
Chris Franklin
1.0 out of 5 stars Local Storage That still REQUIRES the Cloud.
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2025
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Bottom line: no one should buy this. It's a complete waste of money. Other than letting you "consolidate the storage location" of your recordings, nothing else works as advertised. Every feature they hyped either fails outright or actively makes the rest of the system perform worse. You're literally paying to downgrade your setup.

Update: Save your money. Buy a 128GB SD card for your cameras and forget about this thing. The SD cards will be cheaper and actually work. I have nothing good to say about this device. It messes with your WiFi, it slows down live camera access, and it doesn't filter or consolidate notifications. My camera gives off more false positives when connected to it, and it even greatly limits the range of some models. Once they're paired with this box, they can't use your existing WiFi because they're forced to connect only to the homebase's network. For example: Solocam S220. Which has an extremely poor wifi chipset and antenna inside.

But this and you'll paying good money to make your setup worse. And the best part, Eufy clearly doesn't care. A few simple options and this thing might have been worth it.

Update: Since there's no way to configure anything related to the WiFi network it creates, the device insists on using channel 11, which is an awful choice in my area. Because of that, I'm having to reboot it sometimes twice a day just to get the cameras that rely on this custom WiFi network to reconnect. I honestly can't believe how poorly this entire system was designed.

Update again: This thing can't even consolidate notifications in one place. All my cameras are supported, yet some of them have their "smart" notification settings outside of the HomeBase. So now I have to configure the HomeBase and each camera individually. Total waste of money.

Update: Just found out it can't delete footage properly. If you want to remove a single clip, your only option is to delete the entire day. It'll let you delete the little "motion" or "person" markers, but those don't remove the footage. They're basically stickers. To delete anything real, you have to wipe every recording from that day. It's like nobody designing this ever used it.

Update: I'm honestly struggling to see the point of this device. At best it reduces a little battery drain or SD card wear on certain cameras. It doesn't work with all Eufy products, and even when something does connect to it, that doesn't mean it gains the features Eufy advertises.

If this thing is supposed to handle the "AI" processing, that should apply across every camera since the work is done on the image. Instead, most devices barely change, and only a couple get a few new checkboxes.

For example: I have two wall cameras that can connect to the HomeBase and store events on it. That's it. No new AI features at all.

It also can't centralize or de duplicate notifications. There's nothing "smart" about the alert handling. The only extra feature is triggering the built in alarm, which is great unless someone just grabs the HomeBase, because then you lose the alarm, the storage, and half your system.

Update: The more you use this, the more you realize how bad it really is. No alerts when a camera goes offline. "AI" only works outdoors, in perfect lighting, at close range. Cars get tagged as "motion" almost every time. Known faces get labeled as "person." I've never had a single pet recognized. Just more "motion." A complete waste.

Update: Learned another one. If you have a camera recording continuously and it's connected to a HomeBase, when that camera goes offline you can only view the recorded events. The continuous footage you set up doesn't show up at all. At this point it's a major letdown in every possible way.

Update: This is a security nightmare. If you try to join the device to your WiFi network, it rejects passwords with special characters. Then it creates its own hidden 2.4 GHz network with an SSID you can't configure. You can't change its channel to avoid interference. You can't disable it. And the password it generates was cracked in under a minute. I recreated that same network on my access points just to extend coverage for setup, something this device should support without all this nonsense.

Original: The Eufy HomeBase S380, like nearly all Eufy devices, is fundamentally cloud dependent. Despite Eufy's "local storage" claims, you need an active internet connection for the system to work properly. Without it, you lose access to essential features, including viewing and managing your recordings.

The cameras and HomeBase must communicate with Eufy's servers for device recognition, playback, notifications, and app connectivity. If that cloud link is broken for any reason, every camera shows as offline, even though they're physically up and connected on your LAN.

This reveals the core problem: you cannot view or manage your own locally stored recordings without Eufy's cloud being available. The system forces authentication and routing through their servers before the app can access local video. Your "local" system is only as reliable as Eufy's cloud.

Some wired cameras support RTSP, but only for the live feed. Recorded footage is still locked behind the Eufy app and their cloud gating. Many cameras don't support RTSP at all.

In short: your recordings may reside on the HomeBase, but the ecosystem is cloud gated. If Eufy's servers go down, or your internet drops, your cameras and HomeBase become inaccessible for playback or monitoring. Eufy could have implemented local access through a web interface. They simply chose not to.

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Nov 24, 2025 06:18 PM
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HamoodiH6524Nov 24, 2025 06:18 PM
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I believe that's what I paid for the same unit last year.
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Nov 24, 2025 06:24 PM
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hanglooseNov 24, 2025 06:24 PM
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Is there any value in having a second one of these in the same home?
Nov 24, 2025 06:41 PM
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gigadeinNov 24, 2025 06:41 PM
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Quote from hangloose :
Is there any value in having a second one of these in the same home?
No. Unless you reach the device limit or have issue with connectivity due to interference or location of devices
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Nov 24, 2025 06:46 PM
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aifanNov 24, 2025 06:46 PM
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I think I've had Homebase 3 for a year and I don't know that it was all that useful over putting SD cards in each camera. I guess if you are worried about theft of SD Card that might be the big use case.
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Nov 24, 2025 06:50 PM
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dbkid13Nov 24, 2025 06:50 PM
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What's a good hard drive to pair with this?
Nov 24, 2025 06:50 PM
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Dr.AbacusNov 24, 2025 06:50 PM
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Quote from aifan :
I think I've had Homebase 3 for a year and I don't know that it was all that useful over putting SD cards in each camera. I guess if you are worried about theft of SD Card that might be the big use case.
Exactly this. Not a fan of the idea of using SD cards for outdoor cameras for that reason.
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Nov 24, 2025 06:55 PM
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Thanks OP. Be sure to go through a shopping portal for 10% back
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Nov 24, 2025 07:02 PM
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richycoxNov 24, 2025 07:02 PM
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Quote from gigadein :
No. Unless you reach the device limit or have issue with connectivity due to interference or location of devices
Do you know the answer to this? My indoor eufy camera connect pretty fast and for the most part can connect without much issues.
My outside cameras and doorbell are really bothering me. It takes a solid 10 seconds of loading and it would finally load and sometimes it would fail to load the camera. I have the home base 3 tucked upstairs but if I add another home base 3 downstairs and closer to the front door, would this help with the connection issue?

Call cameras are wireless.
Nov 24, 2025 07:08 PM
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randomuser29Nov 24, 2025 07:08 PM
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best price for this unit
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Nov 24, 2025 07:32 PM
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hanglooseNov 24, 2025 07:32 PM
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Quote from richycox :
Do you know the answer to this? My indoor eufy camera connect pretty fast and for the most part can connect without much issues.
My outside cameras and doorbell are really bothering me. It takes a solid 10 seconds of loading and it would finally load and sometimes it would fail to load the camera. I have the home base 3 tucked upstairs but if I add another home base 3 downstairs and closer to the front door, would this help with the connection issue?

Call cameras are wireless.
I am wondering the same. Use this as a second HB3 'extender' to the original HB3.....for either stronger connectivity to some devices further away....or perhaps even for audible notification in a different floor/area? You would have to tie specific devices to each HB3 in the same 'home', then setup rules to action on each (Leave, Stay, etc)?
Nov 24, 2025 07:32 PM
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LJL1496Nov 24, 2025 07:32 PM
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Quote from aifan :
I think I've had Homebase 3 for a year and I don't know that it was all that useful over putting SD cards in each camera. I guess if you are worried about theft of SD Card that might be the big use case.
My doorbell doesn't have an SD card slot and stopped ringing my inside chime. This might be good for me.
Nov 24, 2025 07:41 PM
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alxshantiNov 24, 2025 07:41 PM
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Just bought a S220 and hooked it up under the front door porch. So far so good but night vision could be better. Also the solar panel doesn't get much sun being where it is. (I could have a wired camera there--there's a light socket that I could tap into.) Not sure if I should commit to the eufy ecosystem or go with Tapo. Any suggestions from you guys would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Nov 24, 2025 07:45 PM
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ThinkingCriticallyNov 24, 2025 07:45 PM
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This is the lowest price and a must have if you're into Eufy ecosystem. Caveat
1 it only support one drive so, if it fails, your recording are lost(no raid support)
2 No automation on exporting events. I have a usb plugged in but I have to manually export events if I need to. There's no way to schedule events automatically to a usb drive.
3 No SMB support. Same as before wish we can save/duplicate recording for peace of mind
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4 Either save on HB3 or Camera's sd card. No support for dual save again to prevent data loss.

Besides these, it's a great system which allows me to view/stream my camera locally even when no internet is available. I also streamed upto 46 minutes without any disconnect means it could allow you to use as a baby monitor.
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Nov 24, 2025 08:27 PM
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703toyotaNov 24, 2025 08:27 PM
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Pretty good price. Did they ever resolve the security issue with Eufy?

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Nov 24, 2025 08:29 PM
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elxxbtNov 24, 2025 08:29 PM
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Quote from dbkid13 :
What's a good hard drive to pair with this?
I initially installed a Patriot SSD, but it stopped working after 4 months. Now I have a WD SSD Red for NAS and it's going strong.

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