WYZE Cam Outdoor Surveillance Camera Kit - Keep Your Home Safe and Secure

Sid: I added this camera to an existing Wyze outdoor camera system. These cameras don't detect every motion. Usually when one camera fails to detect motion, another one picks it up. Night vision is very good and the area appears to be illuminated at night. Make sure you fully charge the camera prior to installation. I have found after charging, the batteries don't last very long before they require a recharge (<3 mos). Otherwise, video clarity is excellent (HD), and having sound and a mic are nice features.

Canada on Apr 16, 2022

Ciara MV: Love that this is easy to set up, easy to use, easy to view. However, the battery life doesn’t seem to last as long as I would’ve preferred. Don’t use the live view often so that the battery will be preserved, otherwise, it’ll die quickly. Of course, once you have it set up, you would want to test it out first. Don’t look at every notification, or that will kill the battery too.

This was set up about 3-4 weeks ago, and already one of the cameras is down to 50%. Now, we learned not to open the notification on every single motion detection, because it catches even people just walking in a distance. Not worth losing your battery over when nothing is happening.

But I love that it catches things that call for our attention, like leaving the garage door open or having a stranger come at the door.

It does it’s job as advertised! I do like it so far!

Canada on Oct 27, 2021

Cotton Ball: Good outdoor camera with wire. I have several Wyze camera and door bell. For this camera, it requires the base station to work and for files backup. Make sure your Ethernet cable works while setting up. I didn't know that only one plug on the back of my cable modem is active at one time. I was frustrated initially not being able to set it up. Once it's setup, it's very easy to use just like all other Wyze camera. However, I would give just one star for the motion detection. In many instances, it failed to capture motions. I have tried different settings but it still doesn't work all the times. If I don't do much recordings, the battery last a while; otherwise it requires charging frequently. Also, it only works with 32 GB microSD card. I tried 64 GB but both the camera and base station failed to recognize them. You can only backup your videos/photos to the base station if you have the plus account.

United States on Jul 27, 2021

Lena: I have purchased first an add on outdoor camera when I realized that I needed the basestation to make it work. I ordered the basestation with one more camera.
Here I give the camera one star. Great size for what I wanted, not easy to setup but still easy enough for someone with outdoor camera knowledge.
Second star, easy to find all the ports. Good hardware to setup.
However, ridicules instructions with the free app online. No instruction in the manual in the box. You have to download the app and use the in-app instructions. I refuse to pay an app that comes with a camera and this camera does not perform well in the free app. You need to go to youtube to see better instructions, which are in many ways not very precise. Third star, good picture quality, great wifi range from the base. The camera in itself is not a bad camera, but the performance and the setup within the app are failing my standard of using a wireless live 24 hours life stream outdoor camera.
That is the downfall of this camera and why I probably will return it to Amazon.
Negative points- battery does not perform as advertised. Wyze advertises that the camera does live streaming, which it does. But it...

Canada on Jun 13, 2021

Derek: I almost didn't buy this starter kit (along with an additional outdoor camera) after reading some of the negative reviews, but I already had 4 of the Wyze pan/tilt cameras and they have been awesome, so I took a chance.

So far, they have performed beyond my expectations. I never would have guessed that a battery-powered camera could be active enough to react to motion, record video clips, and display live video on demand and do so while conserving power so well. I put one camera on my back patio and the other near my front door. I get a lot more traffic from my family on the patio, so it makes sense that the battery has been used more on that one.

Immediately after receiving the cameras, I put them on chargers and they were fully charged within a couple of hours. After pairing them with the base station, I put them outside and started experimenting with the settings. It has now been over a week and the front door camera is at 94% battery capacity and the back patio camera is at 85% capacity. I was really worried that I'd need to charge them every week, but I'm going to run them dead and see how much I can get out of them. I'll provide an update on how many days each...

United States on May 07, 2021

bill7seventy7: It's nice that it is wireless but...
Can't really mount it without the base unlike the v2 which will stick to metal, the outdoor cam's base or the cam itself do not stick to metal, only each other. This can be an annoyance and you must find a place for a screw. This limits it's portability, hoping to take it out in the kayak but will stick with the v2 for now for portability. Don't even get me started on why a base unit is required, so iunless you want to mount them around the yard...
I have ordered a V3 cam and hoping this will provide a better experience, even though it is a plug-in it may offer more portability with the use of a usb external battey.
Overall, built quality is excellent. I think the outdoor cam, as their first outdoor self-powered cam, was an experiment that was worth the try. V3 cam holds promise for me but I think when the marriage occures between the outdoor cam and V3 cam, wyze will have 'the camera'
Some things are indisputeable - build quality and price are the best!

Canada on Mar 30, 2021

Movie Fan: I was a Logitech Circle 2 user for over two years. The Circle 2 was pretty good, it had flaws that it's design could not overcome but in general it served my home well. So if you are looking to move on from the Circle 2 you will find the Wyze Outdoor Cam bundle a good choice and one that has more improvements over the Circle 2. This review will be making a fair number of comparisons.

First off...I wanted to stick with a true wireless multi-camera (4) solution. SO that narrowed the list considerably. Basically only the WYZE Outdoor Cam could replace most all of the functionality of Logitech's Circle 2, make improvements and be cheaper to operate.

Cloud Storage
Person recognition
Notifications
Wireless, WiFi based system
Weather Proof

Areas where WYZE improves on Circle 2

Battery life - this is huge and was one of my major gripes with the Circle 2
Consistent Performance - The WYZE cameras are more predictable. Circle two sometimes would basically record non-stop clips until the battery was dead. Cameras were a bit buggy.
Smaller design, blends in with house more but still says..."Hey I am a camera! I am watching you."
Cheaper cloud...

United States on Dec 06, 2020

H PhamH Pham: Shipping took about 7 days from the US (Washington State). Small package with a nice touch (does not feel cheap). Same size as v1/v2 Indoor camera but heavier (probably due to the shielding and the battery). Setup is different than the Indoor camera, you need to connect the Base station by direct RJ45 cable to the router and keep the base on a somewhat same level with the camera. The first time I set up the base station upstairs and the camera (outside and 7 feet from the ground) does not receive good signal. I move the base station to the main floor and notice that the camera has good signal with almost full bar. In distance the camera is about 25 feet from the base however there are 3, 4 walls and doors in between. Most cameras nowadays will give excellent daytime picture so I will not talk about that. Night time picture is very good. The only downside are 1) the camera does not record 24/7 if you want to set it that way (probably a design to preserve a long battery life) and 2) the motion detection area is fixed, unlike v1/v2. Battery seems to keep up well, using about 1% per day. Overall, this is a nice little outdoor camera, I would certainly buy again if there is a need.

Canada on Dec 04, 2020