expiredJohnDubya posted Mar 26, 2026 03:58 PM
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expiredJohnDubya posted Mar 26, 2026 03:58 PM
$119.99: eufy Security SoloCam S340, Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor
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Eufy loves launching products and abandoning them, hoping to sell you something new.
Eufy loves launching products and abandoning them, hoping to sell you something new.
Eufy loves launching products and abandoning them, hoping to sell you something new.
If you're hardwiring your cams, you really shouldn't be buying into the Eufy ecosystem in the first place; their product range is pretty heavily skewed towards solar battery cams due to their relative ease of installation being attractive to their target demographic.
For hardwired, you're generally a lot better off going with Reolink, Amcrest, etc, as they offer wide lineups of hardwired and PoE cams, the hardware design choices of which are unconstrained by the power limitations inherent to a battery powered system.
For example, I installed a basic Eufy setup for my folks, with six outdoor solar and four indoor hardwired cams, so they could have peace of mind when they spend the summer out of state, because they never would have let me drill the holes/run the wire necessary for a hardwired setup. At home, I instead primarily have Reolink PoE cams, which offer better performance, but did require running rather a lot of Ethernet cable through the walls and attic.
I'm honestly more surprised Eufy even had optional hardwiring support in some of their outdoor solar cameras at one point, just since you're the first person I've heard actually using them that way.
Oh, and just to address your point of Eufy's tendency to abandon support for their products, I'm sad to say you definitely have a point there. I bought the Homebase 3 for my folks when I put up the exterior cams, only to find out that neither the wired doorbell cam nor the two wired indoor cams I had previously set up for them just a few months prior were properly (or in the case of the doorbell, at all) supported by it. On Eufy's Homebase compatibility page, they continue to be listed as possibly being updated to full compatibility with it in the future, but that status hasn't been updated in years now, and it's clear they have no intention of doing so, despite continuing to sell them.
The really ridiculous thing is that the otherwise identical battery-powered version of the same doorbell cam is actually fully compatible with it, which I had specifically not bought at the time because I didn't want them to have to go through charging the battery pack every couple months. To add insult to injury, though they make very little mention of it, it is actually possible to hardwire that version as well🤦
I really want to like Eufy, they make a lot of cool equipment, but their support for it is messy at best. If I knew then what I know now, I would have just gone with TP-Link Tapo cams for them instead; fewer fancy camera options, but they seem to actually put in the effort to support them over time.
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