Eufy S340 Solar Camera

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What We Loved

• Battery lifethat's actually been enough to keep this thing fully charged for the last month I've been running itIt only takes about 2 hours of direct sunshine to completely charge the battery back up
• Customizable motion zonesyou can actually set up privacy zones which is a little black box in the app you can put over something and you just put that little black box over the thing it keeps confusing as a person and I'll eliminate the false alarm
• Digital zoom claritythese also give the ability to digitally zoom out to 8X but once you're digitally zooming you're cropping the image and losing a little bit of resolutionyou can still pretty well make out all the letters even as I get all the way out to 65 ft
• Dual-camera designit has two lenses and that's because one lens is a wideangle lens and the other one is a 3X zoom lens
• False alert filter effectivenessI was getting some false alarms in the front yard it thought one of my little lights in the front yard was a person and in the side yard it kept thinking my trash cans were peopleI haven't had nearly as many false alarms almost none since I attached it to the home base 3
• Hub requirementthe base station does not come with either of these cameras but it's not necessaryyou do need the three
• Installation easethe other one just surface mounts on the outside of the houseboth of these were very easy to install
• Local storage option conveniencethese will be storing it on SD card on the side of the housethis has a hard drive in it it stores all your footage inside your home secure
• Mounting flexibilityit also does come with a extension wire where you can mount the panel remotely
• On-device processing (AI)these also give you the edge AIthe AI in the base station does work a little bit better than the AI on the cameras
• Optical zoom performanceit's a 2K resolution at three times optical zoom which means you're not getting that crop going on
• Power options (solar panel)powered by a solar panel there is no wiring so there's a battery on boardit also does come with a extension wire where you can mount the panel remotely
• PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) control responsivenessonce it locks onto an object it can follow that object
• Video resolutionthe wide angle lens on these is a 3K lens the zoom lens is a 2K lens

Just Okay

• Floodlight brightnessthe light is not as bright as the one in my sidey yardthis light does give actually plenty of light in my driveway to be able to see
• Notification speedit does take a few seconds between when it senses something and it actually sending an alert to us
• Price valuethis camera the solar camera is coming in right around $200 where this one is coming in at around $220

Needs Improvement

• Continuous recording capabilityit also doesn't continuously record

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What We Loved

• Customizable motion zonesConfigurable activity zones and detection sensitivity allow you to reduce false positives
• Local storage option convenienceit even has 8 GB of storage built in for local recordings
• On-device processing (AI)There is onboard AI for human and vehicle detection, and this camera can track subjects and return to fixed preset positions. It worked fairly well, but it does identify my cat as a human quite often
• Power options (batteryThe battery is good for up to three months, but it also comes with a solar panel you can fit to the top of the camera or locate nearby
• PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) control responsivenessThis is also a pan-and-tilt camera, so you can pan through 360 degrees and tilt through 70 degrees
• Video resolutionmain lens has a 135-degree field of view and records crisp, clear video at 2880 x 1620. It is paired with a telephoto lens that gives you 3X zoom in the center of the frame (it goes up to 8X hybrid zoom)

Just Okay

• Frame rateThe default video frame rate is 15, which can lead to blurring and choppiness, especially for fast-moving subjects
• Microphone sensitivitytwo-way audio, though the sound quality is not great

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What We Loved

• Customizable motion zonesyou can set the wired camera to move between zones you program so that one can work its way through a full 360 degrees
• Field of viewboth the solar paneled camera and the floodlight camera have a 360 degree field of view kind of each of them has a camera that can turn a full 360 degreesbut pivoting isn't the same thing as field of view I'd say both cameras have an actual field of view of about a hundred degrees natively
• Installation & MountingIt took me probably 20 minutes to install this thing if I had Come out with all the right pieces at once it would have taken me about 15 minutes So really easy installation
• Low-light performanceThe solar light and the floodlight also have infrared sensors which means they can be set to detect motion behind something like trees or bushes
• Video resolutionthe s340 wireless outdoor camera captures in 3k and they both have a telephoto and a wide-angle lens so you're actually getting 3k from each of those cameras