Amazon[amazon.com] has eufy Security SoloCam S340, Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor, Cameras for Home Security, 360° Pan & Tilt Surveillance, No Blind Spots, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, No Monthly Fee, HomeBase S380 Compatible on sale for $119.99.
Details:
Recommended Uses For Product: Outdoor Security
Brand: eufy Security
Model Name: SoloCam S340
Connectivity Technology: Wireless
Special Feature: Enhanced 3K Dual-Camera with 8x Zoom, Solar-Powered, 360° Pan & Tilt, No Monthly Fee
Features:
Enhanced Dual-Camera Clarity at Up to 40 ft (12 m): Capture every event around your home in ultra-clear 3K resolution. Enjoy sharp, detailed visuals with 8× zoom to see what matters most.
Solar-Powered, Install Once and it Runs Forever: Experience constant peace of mind with this solar-powered security camera that's easy to set up and always on, thanks to its removable solar panel.
360° Guardian, No Blind Spots: Say goodbye to blind spots with full home coverage by installing the product vertically. Enjoy 360° Pan & Tilt Surveillance , check your front porch, monitor your backyard, and keep an eye on the driveway with ease.
Versatile Installation, Effortless Setup: Experience the convenience of a 7-minute installation with its compact size and wire-free design.
Rest assured service: you can enjoy a worry-free experience, all backed by our professional customer service team.
Local* Storage, No Monthly Fee: One-time purchase. No monthly fee or hidden costs.
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Amazon[amazon.com] has eufy Security SoloCam S340, Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor, Cameras for Home Security, 360° Pan & Tilt Surveillance, No Blind Spots, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, No Monthly Fee, HomeBase S380 Compatible on sale for $119.99.
Details:
Recommended Uses For Product: Outdoor Security
Brand: eufy Security
Model Name: SoloCam S340
Connectivity Technology: Wireless
Special Feature: Enhanced 3K Dual-Camera with 8x Zoom, Solar-Powered, 360° Pan & Tilt, No Monthly Fee
Features:
Enhanced Dual-Camera Clarity at Up to 40 ft (12 m): Capture every event around your home in ultra-clear 3K resolution. Enjoy sharp, detailed visuals with 8× zoom to see what matters most.
Solar-Powered, Install Once and it Runs Forever: Experience constant peace of mind with this solar-powered security camera that's easy to set up and always on, thanks to its removable solar panel.
360° Guardian, No Blind Spots: Say goodbye to blind spots with full home coverage by installing the product vertically. Enjoy 360° Pan & Tilt Surveillance , check your front porch, monitor your backyard, and keep an eye on the driveway with ease.
Versatile Installation, Effortless Setup: Experience the convenience of a 7-minute installation with its compact size and wire-free design.
Rest assured service: you can enjoy a worry-free experience, all backed by our professional customer service team.
Local* Storage, No Monthly Fee: One-time purchase. No monthly fee or hidden costs.
The lower version of this cam can do 24/7 recording if hardwired. This one still cannot. What it does tell me, is that it's fully charged repeatedly in the middle of the night.
Eufy loves launching products and abandoning them, hoping to sell you something new.
The lower version of this cam can do 24/7 recording if hardwired. This one still cannot. What it does tell me, is that it's fully charged repeatedly in the middle of the night.
Eufy loves launching products and abandoning them, hoping to sell you something new.
i have this camera and it works perfectly and even in winter had enough power 24/7
Only issue I have with this cam is it is not 360, maybe 345 rotation. I bought one with a corner adapter for a 270d corner amd that application is useless
The lower version of this cam can do 24/7 recording if hardwired. This one still cannot. What it does tell me, is that it's fully charged repeatedly in the middle of the night.
Eufy loves launching products and abandoning them, hoping to sell you something new.
It's pretty clearly intended and marketed as a solar battery cam, which, almost universally, don't support continuous recording.
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.
Stay away from Eufy. The released software/firmware updates are not vetted and you wind up with a useless mess. Terrible, clueless engineers and support.
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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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