eufy Security, eufyCam 2C 2-Cam Kit, Security Camera Wireless Outdoor, Home Security System, HomeKit Compatibility, 1080p HD, IP67, Night Vision, Motion Only Alert, No Monthly Fee

I have been very happy with this new security camera set so far. For a cheap base model set, it has impressive features. The signal to the cameras outside my house is strong from its basestation inside. The picture quality is clear and has sufficient resolution. The night vision also works well. The motion detection range is proportional to the camera height. At about 6.75 ft height the detection distance is about 10.75 ft and at 8.25 ft height the detection distance is about 12 ft (diagonal distance). The camera sees further than this, naturally, but these ranges are those necessary to trigger the camera to record. Outside this range motion is not detected. It also distinguishes between people and animals. My cats don't trigger it, which is nice. The alarm option on detection is loud and will definately get attention. It's probably something most people will not want on most of the time because you don't want a burgler alarm going off for UPS or Amazon deliveries. The ability to speak through the cameras is also nice (has about a 1 second delay). Be careful charging the cameras. You definitely should use a high amperage USB charger (2 A). They will take unacceptably long to charge on a lower amperage plugin (like a USB charging port on a surge protector). Another minor annoyance charging is that the micro-USB charging port is recessed on the bottom of the camera and covered with a flap (to prevent water getting it). The recessed hole on the camera is smaller than the dimensions of the plastic surrounding the male end of most mini-USB charging cables so finding cables that will fit might be problematic when charging multiple cameras. It only comes with 1 cable. I had 3 others in my cable drawer and only 1 would fit. The app is easy to use and intuitive and makes the setup straightforward. Just add your basestation first in the app, then the cameras individually. Overall, this is a very good entry level system.

I've had three Arlo Pro 2 cameras for several years now and was fairly happy with them. They advertise "High Definition" video and when I saw the actual recordings, they're more like 800x600 or maybe 1024x768. Detection is slow and sometimes I catch people walking away from the house, but not approaching. Arlo Pro 2 was the last model that allowed 2 weeks of free online storage. All Newer Arlos require a subscription service to be even minimally useful (you can't view videos when away from the house if you don't subscribe). Batteries lasted a month, maybe two, which I thought was great. Arlo's online access has 2-factor which RARELY works first try. I have tried 3 push-notifications that never worked, and resorted to 2ndary option of SMS, which usually works. Many times, immediately after logging into the app or the website, I'm immediately logged out and told I need to log in again. Arlo frustrates me regularly. I got some Eufy cameras for additional surveillance of my car and front door. Video quality is better than Arlo, but still not what I would call HiDef like a HiDef movie or TV show. Different settings may yield higher quality, but I'm opting for battery life since video quality is good enough. The batteries TRULY last 180 days, which is AMAZING, considering they're capturing over 2,000 20-second video clips during that timeframe (using Optimal Battery Life setting). I can view videos anywhere for free. Online storage goes back at least 30 days!! I can set up an RTSP NAS device (like Ubiquiti - $200) to store videos locally, or you can use an SD card--but this card can't be removed and used in your computer to retrieve videos. You must access videos through the base station to decrypt them. They don't have easy-to-use local USB storage like Arlo, which is unfortunate. I've had a couple instances where our car left the parking spot and was not detected, but I get a notification when it then comes back--or the person at the front door has 10 or 20 seconds of their presence missing between clips or before/after a clip, but this is rare. I also have a notification for our front door (sound set to "Knock Knock") which is REALLY handy and instantaneous in most cases. Someone walks up and my phone alerts "Knock Knock" even before the doorbell rings (especially useful when deliveries are left). This is really cool when you're on vacation and you get a knock knock to find out a package was left--so you notify a neighbor to pick it up for you. At this point, Eufy is my recommendation for home cameras when compared to Arlo. I was given some newer Arlo cameras and was completely disappointed when I discovered I needed a subscription to use them, and the batteries only lasted a week or so. My years-old Arlo Pro 2 batteries still last a month, for cryin' out loud. Eufy's battery life of 4 months minimum (near my street parking, where every passing car triggers it) to 6 months (front door) is just amazing. Video quality is great--not excellent. Detection is really good, too. Storage, access, and usability meets all my needs.

What really impressed me about the wireless camera system is just how simple it is to setup. Unbox, charge, download the app, connect to your wifi network, install the cameras and you're done. The picture quality for both day and night meet my requirements, zones with notifications actually work as designed, and the rechargeable battery life seems to be on-point for 6mo mark. My cameras are installed outside under eve out of direct sunlight. Hopefully this will keep the camera working properly, time will tell.

I'll start off by saying I originally bought an Arlo Pro 2 system. Much to my disappointment, the package got "lost in the mail" so I ended up ordering this camera system by sheer luck. I had been watching several review videos trying to decide between Arlo and Ring since both were on sale via Black Friday when I saw these. The one thing that attracted me to these were the price and NO MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION FEE!!!!!! Fast forward got it delivered and was very happy with what I got. I received 3 cameras and a base station. Base station is very small and sleek and has great range to to my cameras. Cameras are decently heavy and don't feel cheap. They don't come that charged, so I had to charge them one by one off the base station(which didn't take long). Setup was a breeze. Plugged the base station in, hooked it up to the ol modem via ethernet cable and downloaded the app and followed the setup instructions. It's a pretty straightforward process. Set up an account and the app walks you through the rest of the process step by step. What I liked about the app is you can take your phone over to a spot you want to put a camera and it'll tell you the signal strength; which I found extremely useful and helped to determine where to put my cameras. Installing the cameras took no time at all either. Once the cameras were set up, we did some test runs and everything worked great(at first). The picture quality is great. The night vision is amazing. The microphone is so good I can hear our conversations inside the house. The app was user friendly as well. On a side note, there is a small delay in response time as far as notifications go, but it's not enough to matter. From what I've read, all the brands do. You have to be practical with your expectations too. The camera has to record, send that clip to the base station, then the base station has to download it and get it out to you via the internet. If you want faster response times, I recommend getting a fast internet connection. Finally, this is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. After the front door camera was installed, it was super finicky. When we did test runs with it, it worked great. The next day, however, we had received 2 packages and didn't receive notifications. Then we started conducting more test runs and still couldn't get it to work 100%. Frustrated, we finally took the camera down and repositioned it. Since then, we have had zero problems. All 3 cameras work flawlessly. We think the problem was the angle we had it positioned and we had it up a little too high. We moved it down some and centered it on the door and it did the job. If you're trying to decide and are a researcher like I am, go with these cameras. I feel very satisfied with my purchase. They have worked great and are such great deal compared to the other systems out there; especially since there is no monthly subscription fee. If you do decide to buy these, I just recommend installing them between 6 to 8 ft from the ground and you shouldn't have any problems.

It’s a great security camera very easy to set up! It is exactly what it says it is! Would definitely buy it again!

I already have eufy security devices: 2 video doorbells and 2 bolt-locks. I like that they work well and do not require a subscription. It was easy to add the two outdoor security cameras to the system. They set up quickly and straightforward to adjust the settings to your desired parameters through the app. This would be true if this were the first eufy security device a person purchased and set up. I got this outdoor camera system on sale, but even at full price, these are quite reasonably priced. I looked at the higher priced eufy options, but find that this level serves my purpose. I didn't figure that the cameras would get enough solar exposure where they are placed to make that a good option, nor do I require the higher video resolutions (to my thinking at this time).

10/29/25: We have discovered yet another glitch that makes them unusable. If you are taping in live view and pull down the menu on your phone to press the dimmer button, this camera will disconnect from your RECORDED LIVE VIEW AND ERASE ALL SAVED RECORDED VIDEO! IT WILL RESET ITSELF AND ALL VIABLE FOOTAGE IS LOST. GAR. BAGE! Another foreign Company stealing from the American people saying this is security. It is NOT A SECURITY SYSTEM! IT'S JUST NOT RELIABLE. 1010/25: Back button erased all recorded live view event. Each time we find a crappy thing we are updating our 1 star review of tears crappy cameras that are as worthless as the app that won't control them. 09/06/26: In order for live view to be viewed, you MUST press continue over and over and over and over and over and over! If you forget, any recorded footage is lost. It does not save the footage that you so meticulously recorded during your alleged security event. Eufy "security" erases that vital footage!!!!!! PIP, NOPE. IT HIJACKS YOUR ENTIRE PHONE SCREEN. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING EXCEPT LOOK AT YOUR EUFY camera. You cannot set a passive live view while a security event is happening because it is going to force you to keep hitting continue continue continue continue continue continue continue. There is no camera sync feature. You cannot record continuously from one trashy er Eufy camera to the other. Only one camera can record at a time and it will in effect lock out your second camera from recording anything. This is not a proper SECURITY system. A proper security camera includes a BANDWITH that doesn't require you to press continue continue continue continue continue continue in live view. It's laughable. Who would pay a subscription for this janky system? The main things this camera needs are not to take over your microphone when it is clearly disabled; your system doesn't honor the settings I've implemented. I don't want advertising on my security screens. I don't want solicitations on my security screens. It's perverse and adverse to anything security related to have this crap on the viewing screens duh. To not take over the entire phone system when in use would be a viable system. You really need a dedicated phone just to operate this TRASH. I wished people would use the cameras AND THE EUFY APP for 3 months b4 writing a review here. They are misleading and fleecing the American people over at the Eufy camera place. The cameras are useless without the 3.6 star useless app on Play. Thank you. 06/28/25: After another disastrous update we are now having to log in over and over and over again. I don't know why Amazon allows this on its platform! STOP BUYING THIS CRAP, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED BY A 2 YR USER. These cameras need an app and this app is not functional! Now it's signing us out of their app randomly. The developers are ghosting us and won't respond to our camera viewing issues. They keep calling us "dear" and it is very condescending in the response when we are seriously needing assistance. This is a money grab and I wished y'all would look at the 3.9 score it has in Google Play. We are disgruntled with this Company for not responding to our queries about their crappy product. One man has 39 cameras since 2021 and they are unusable because they are app controlled and the app isn't functional. I don't understand why Anker won't help us. 06/24/25: With each update this camera perform badly. Now you cannot disable the microphone. It takes over each time you open the app to use the camera. Also, it won't stop running in the background no matter how many times you disable that permission. It will write over other apps when you have that feature disabled. It will not stop asking you to press continue continue continue continue in LIVE VIEW as if we're dumb enough not to realize we want live view when pressed, duh. They are stealing our money for this subpar junk. It will not save the recorded live view footage if continue is not continuously pressed over and over and over again. In short, this is an intrusive camera system that is NOT VIABLE FOR SECURITY. 06/05/2025: Today we were away and heard the dreaded chirp of a notification in a sensitive area. Let's open the app only to see an attempt on the property but because I didn't hit CONTINUE, the footage is lost forever. Trash app that is not for security events. 05/18/25: -No internet in an outage, no EufyCam security system. -$200 of stolen money to purchase an alleged security camera system that doesn't save vital footage. - It has a 3.6 star rating in Play Store. -They will not give you a refund for this trash system. --Customer service is non-existent. -They call you dear but won't fix the app that controls these dear cameras. -Sending fix it issues via the system provided by Anker is dead and won't respond nor resolve SECURITY CAMERA ISSUES WITHIN THE APP. -Unable to form a viable Court case with SECURITY VIDEO because we didn't hit the "CONTINUE BUTTON" in time to save the LIVE view footage. STOP BUYING THIS SYSTEM. IT IS TRASH. You cannot use it for anything other than squirrel monitoring. We have been waiting and waiting for an app that will control this system properly for 3 YEARS. To date, the cameras are unusable because the app that controls them is unusable. In an Internet outage, THIS SYSTEM WILL NOT FUNCTION! YOU WILL HAVE NO ACCESS TO YOUR CAMERAS IN AN OUTAGE, thusly making this NOT a viable security system as advertised. It is a blatant lie to call this a security system when we aren't able to use the "security" cameras at will. Right now, the app isn't functioning so we cannot view any live footage. Please read the reviews in Play before purchasing. This is not a viable security system! Thank you. 04/07/25: 😞 MORE FOREIGN Trashhhhhhhhh!!!! We implore you to read the reviews in Play store. This system is no longer usable for us because of the lack of customer care and viable updates to fix problems. Customer service won't address concerns with functionality of these units. The Company has an F rating on BBB citing concerns with reaching and receiving customer service as the main issue. That is also our issue. The cameras don't function as described. The app that controls them is not good ever particularly after an update. If you don't press CONTINUE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER, ALL FOOTAGE WILL BE LOST. POS SYSTEM, NOT SECURITY SYSTEM!!! TRASH. Update12/3/24: CONTINUE CONTINUE CONTINUE! That is what you must push each time you're in live view over and over and over and over and over again. So if I'm cooking and I want to view the camera in live view because there is an event, my hands must be free at all times to keep pushing the continue continue continue button so that I can continue to watch live view! This is a dishonest system and it has nothing to do with security if I have to keep pushing a button in order to view the camera. Please stop calling things security systems that aren't security systems-- it is a lie to the consumer and it does no one any good in critical situations where LIVE VIEW is paramount. I don't need a childish reminder that I'm viewing my cameras in live view. Please stop add pop ups when the app opens to view live view. Once again if I have to disable an advertisement before I can view my cameras once again- NOT a security camera but an advertising agent. I do not want any advertisements covering any of the views of my cameras of anything that alleges to be security. Please just stop. Finally, customer care is nonexistent. The pacifying responses in Play store do not provide any assistance with this system's functionality nor will they assist you with glitches in the subpar app. Good luck y'all the system is a mess and we have not had good luck with "security" events. Eufy has missed most pertinent security events due to continue continue continue continue button not depressed over and over. It's depressing to pay this kind of money for something that claims to be one thing and clearly is not. Amazon should have EUFY correct their language to remove the word security from their description because they're selling junk to American consumers alleging security. If we would have opened the play store and read the 1, 2 star reviews before purchasing, this would not have been anywhere on our list. Here's what we don't like. We had this for around 3 months with nothing but problems. The interface is lacking major functionality and tech support is not helpful. They patronize instead of fix the problems especially with Android users. An active "security" event cannot and will not record past 1 minute, 1:01 to be exact with no way to adjust the feature for a longer clip. The app takes more than 12-18 seconds to open during a "security" event. The app won't let you disable notifications. The app has a popup each opening for the notification to be enabled over and over and over again delaying live view. The cameras won't record events if the subject is moving slowly in its view. The camera/app won't alert you until most of the event has ended. The cameras aren't successful at discerning people from objects. The app refuses to open quickly and takes forever to download events to save. There is no live view PIP. The app runs in the background yet requires opening each time. The battery life has severely diminished to 1-4 days instead of it's advertised battery life. The battery drains frequently and requires a full charge which takes overnight at least. The app has limited features for free that don't function properly so we wouldn't be open to anything paid from this system. We aren't happy with the reliability of catching motion events consistently. There is also no way to stop notifications. If you disable motion, a pop up comes on the screen EVERY TIME YOU OPEN THE APP DELAYING THE OPENING OF THE APP THUS YOU WILL MISS ALLEGED SECURITY EVENTS WHICH IS A NONSTARTER FOR A SECURITY SYSTEM. As mentioned before, support isn't supportive so the popup persists delaying the opening of a constant background running app. Why can't notifications be disabled without compromising the alleged security system events? See, this is not a security system and is a total ripoff. Pure overpriced trash. We are so mad to pay this HIGH PRICE for a security toy. This system isn't usable for security needs. It does enjoy recording squirrels and raccoons however.

Sleek and sexy little cameras that were easy to install. The battery lasts 180 days before needing recharging, which is very convenient. No wires! The picture quality is crisp and clear- and love the night vision.