SoloCam S220, Solar Security Camera, Wireless Security Camera Outdoor, 2K Resolution, Continuous Power, No Monthly Fee, HomeBase 3 Compatible, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, for Outdoor Surveillance

I’m very happy with this security camera so far. The video quality is clear and sharp, and the 2K resolution makes it easy to see details during both day and night. The setup process was simple and only took a few minutes using the app. I also like that it uses solar power, so I don’t have to worry about charging the battery all the time. Once installed, it has been working reliably. Motion detection works well and sends notifications quickly when there is activity. It gives me extra peace of mind when I’m away from home. Overall, this is a great outdoor security camera with good features and no monthly fee, which makes it a very good value.

Great camera at a good price. Excellent resolution and easy install. Even saves clips in a cache and doesn’t charge a monthly fee like ring. Has pretty good AI recognition that you can adjust setting on to recognize yourself and others.

The camera functions well and the app is great. The only drawback is that it sometimes doesn’t solar charge as quickly as I would like. Definitely ok for moderate use though. I did have an issue with one of these cameras failing after about 6 months of use. I just wanted to give a shout out to Shane and the Eufy/Anker team for the awesome customer service in honoring the products warranty. Would definitely buy another Eufy product.

I’m really happy with these so far. The setup was quick, the app walked me through everything, and the solar feature is honestly the best part I haven’t had to think about charging them at all. The video quality is clear during the day and still pretty good at night. The only small thing is that motion alerts can be a second or two slow sometimes, but not enough to bother me. For the price and the fact that there’s no monthly fees, these are definitely worth it.

Short form: Don't buy these; yes, they're cheap. But they're cheap for a reason! Update: After Eufy's latest update the camera show "online" but aren't recording and can't view live feeds. Plus there's no restart option in the software, so my only option will to be get out the ladder and do a full reset on them. Cheap construction, worse software. Update (again): Even with a custom power profile with recordings set to 60 seconds and ‘end clip early if no motion is detected.’ These cameras still recorded just 17 seconds of a car leaving my driveway. Between the nighttime ghosting and the awful motion detection, these might be the most useless ‘security’ cameras ever. Update: The ghosting in the night recordings is out of control. Half the time it looks like translucent blobs drifting across the screen. And that’s assuming it even detects the movement in the first place. At this point it would honestly work better if the unit, or at least the home base if it’s connected to one, compared differences between video frames instead of relying on its weak and inconsistent motion sensor. Updated: These things couldn’t get any worse. Even when connected to a HomeBase S380, you still can’t separate detection and recording from notifications. I mean, yes I want it to record every bit of movement. But I don’t need it to notify me every single time. Eufy products are such a letdown in the end. Updated: Unless you’re fine with your camera(s) going offline and missing important events, you’ve got three options. First, buy another brand that actually does what it claims. Second, get an external solar panel (a few bucks) that isn’t made by Eufy. I’m using a 6W third-party one that charges even on cloudy days **unlike** the built-in panel, which claims it’s charging while still losing 10% a day. Third, set the camera to its lowest quality and shortest recording time, point the built-in solar panel straight at the sun, and pray it only records one event a day. Orginal: Poor "solar" panel, worse detection range. The solar panels are pointes at the sun, with zero instructions, and over 9 hrs of sun light. It's still not enough to charge the cameras up, even after 3 days. Which means, they'll be dead after the first snow fall and a paperweight for the rest of the winder. I got the detection set all the way up to seven and it still can't even see a quarter the way down the driveway. We checked and rechecked the angles, tried to measure out the distance and we're getting nowhere near even 20 ft. These cameras are extraordinarily slow to access, and even slower to be able to recall older events. Well the camera does have an okay lens on it with a wide view. That view is useless if it can't actually record anything do you do such poor detection ranges. You literally need to put this camera directly on top of something and have it pointed at it within 10 ft for to do anything reliably. And the whole motion test option inside the app is pointless. Because emotion test you can get almost 50 ft away and did a report motion by changing the LED. But even after that doesn't detect anything. Then there's the whole fact that UV products are actually cloud dependent. They may store all your data locally but they require the app on the phone and authentication by Eufy servers in order to login. Which means if you ever has a problem with the app or their servers your cameras are absolutely useless for viewing video on. And while they have a web portal that you can use it's a web portal that's on their services that link back to your house. Which still requires the internet and their service to be up to make use of your equipment. This is the worst version of cloud dependency possible all of the data is right there at your fingertips but you can do nothing with it if something along the internet is having a problem.

I have used Eufy Security Cameras on my farm for about 5 years now. I have been very happy with the quality and value. So far I love the SoloCam S220 cameras, I am excited to see if the solar charging system is sustainable.

I use Eufy cameras at my primary home and vacation house too. I love their cameras so much that I have bought additional ones to get even better coverage. As long as you install the cameras in a spot where they get enough sun the solar recharge works great. The app even tells you how much charging the sun did. I have one camera that only gets sun until noon. Even that one recharges enough through most of the year, except in the winter when I have to bring it in to plug in to recharge every once in awhile, which is usually only after a few cloudy days. You can adjust the motion sensor’s sensitivity which is a great feature. You can also chose to alert only when a human is seen and the camera does a good job at discerning that, although one time a raccoon was in the cameras view and when it stood up on its hind legs the camera alerted me to a human and admittedly it did look like a furry toddler :-) In human only alert mode the camera will not alert to a car until the person gets out. I wanted both so I used the sensing area adjustment in the app to only alert to motion and human right in front of my garage. This worked well, I don’t get false alarms from cars on the street and with the motion sensitivity turns down a bit I don’t get alerts about birds, squirrels, etc. The infrared works great, with the IR led lights illuminating a large area at night, just know that there is some visible red spectrum in those led lights so people will know the camera has spotted them at night. I wanted to try one as a critter cam and I experimented with covering the led lights with duct tape and it still worked, but at a very degraded level. If you were using it in a spot that had street or house lights it might be good enough to use it with the led lights covered to alert you. However, it is so good with them uncovered you will probably want to see all the detail in night time captures. The microphone on the camera works very well. It also has a speaker on the camera and the app allows me to talk to whoever the camera is seeing. I’ve used that a few times and the person heard me clearly. Eufy is now selling higher resolution cameras, but still sells these models. They are almost half the price of the newer Eufy models sold on Amazon. I find the 2k resolution is plenty for my needs. It is high enough that I can read the name on trucks. It is not quite high enough to read a license plate, but you can mostly make out the numbers. I haven’t tried one of the newer models so I can’t compare. I also love that I don’t need to have a subscription or go to the cloud to look at the videos. I did not get a HomeBase that is compatible with the the S220 so I use each camera as its own storage device and that has worked fine. If it records something I want to not have overwritten I just save it to my phone, like the time a delivery driver, not Amazon, threw a package on my front steps from about ten feet away! Even the camera that is over 150 feet from my WiFi switcher connects fine. Occasionally when I go back to events to watch a video again the app seems to have forgotten it, but refreshing typically fixes that. Overall I highly recommend Eufy cameras, I also use their doorbell cameras and love those too.

The video is sharp and the low light performance is impressive. It connects live quickly. The siren is one of the better ones I've heard. The image remains sharp when zooming in. The solar charging has been flawless. I like the time stamp embedded on the video but I would rather it be at the bottom. If any numbers are against a light background such as sky it's hard to read. I have two grips though: First I don't like the delay in putting the notifications into the onboard memory making the notification unavailable at times. Second I wish vehicle notifications didn't require the base station. That limits where I can use them. I still gave the SoloCam S220 5 stars because of the amazing video clarity and quick live streaming.