Wireless Home CCTV System

SkidMarkKing · 2 Aug 2022 at 10:53

Hi guys,

currently looking and purchasing a CCTV system for my home. We have recently got a puppy so it will be used to monitor when out in the garden if we aren't as well as me running a small business from home where people occasionally visit (2 in 1 really as it will save me buying a ring door bell).

I have seen the Eufy wireless system which is a sister company to Anker (love there products) and gets great reviews. Potential of 365 day battery life (providing motion detention isn't too sensitive).

Does anyone have any recommendations or feedback on the Eufy system or similar?

Thanks

FlyingFish · 2 Aug 2022 at 11:11

I've got a Nest camera & doorbell setup.
The cameras are powered by usb, and work really well. HD nothing too fancy, but stream constantly to the cloud. The app is a bit clunky at times but works really well, and can be shared across the family.
The doorbell I have is the battery powered version, again works pretty well. Battery life is about 6 weeks with all the features turned down. I tried with all the features at Max, and could barely manage a week, but we do have a lot of things coming and going past our house.

aVdub · 2 Aug 2022 at 11:44

I've been using Reolink solar powered pan and tilt cameras for a few months and have no complaints at all.
Will be switching to these inside soon.

grudas · 2 Aug 2022 at 12:07

I've got eufy cameras with thier home station.

one in the garden one in the front of the house.

as you said battery life is up-to xyz depending on motion.

it also has a decent function of only notifying when it spots a human so no pets, no cars etc driving by cause issues. This of course can be changed.

it has been on for over a month now and works fine, rear one has a schedule to only be active during the night or when I arm it and front is always on.

so for garden I wont get notifications if I'm in there chilling or my other half goes out to do something, front door pings up literally 5-10s after spotting someone so really sensitive too.

battery life is ok, more 6 months than a year but decent.

I had blink for a few days and gave up as they constantly lost connection, failed to notify etc. Rubbish basically.

SkidMarkKing · 2 Aug 2022 at 13:54

aVdub said:
I've been using Reolink solar powered pan and tilt cameras for a few months and have no complaints at all.
Will be switching to these inside soon.

Do like the sound of those solar powered ones

Could get one for the back garden and just use a ring doorbell for the front door. I do live near a busy footpath so a propper camera maybe better mounted up high pointing down (foot path is 10-15 yards away from my front door).

Ring doorbells are £90 so it would make sense just to get a camera kit I think

aVdub · 2 Aug 2022 at 17:16

SkidMarkKing said:
Do like the sound of those solar powered ones

Could get one for the back garden and just use a ring doorbell for the front door. I do live near a busy footpath so a propper camera maybe better mounted up high pointing down (foot path is 10-15 yards away from my front door).

Ring doorbells are £90 so it would make sense just to get a camera kit I think

This is the model I bought and currently has a £23 voucher on it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09PG7FMKH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have ring front and the model above, which is set up high and has good coverage of the road.
To start with I had to give it two full charges and even bought a long USB lead to have it plugged in all the time, but it has been good since the full charges.

upnorth · 2 Aug 2022 at 18:55

If you can get mains power I can definitely recommend the wifi Ezviz camera. They record 24/7 to SD card aswell as motion notifications.

Check out YouTuber Lifehackster - this is his bread and butter.

SkidMarkKing · 3 Aug 2022 at 09:58

Shame that the blink ones don't seem to get very good reviews as I recently bought a blink indoor camera to monitor our puppy. Would make it easier viewing all cameras in one app

krooton · 3 Aug 2022 at 12:53

I'm very happy with my Eufycams for the price.

SkidMarkKing · 3 Aug 2022 at 13:54

They do look good. There will be my fiance accessing them as well so I may be best with blink to be honest. We have a blink mini indoors so we can then access all cameras under the same app.

grudas · 3 Aug 2022 at 13:58

SkidMarkKing said:
They do look good. There will be my fiance accessing them as well so I may be best with blink to be honest. We have a blink mini indoors so we can then access all cameras under the same app.

I’d avoid blink. Constantly disconnecting and quality was below average and motion detection is not as good as eufy. With eufy you can add another eufy security account to your “home” who has access to the same cameras.

I returned my blink kit and bought eufy and had no problems.

SkidMarkKing · 3 Aug 2022 at 14:40

grudas said:
I’d avoid blink. Constantly disconnecting and quality was below average and motion detection is not as good as eufy. With eufy you can add another eufy security account to your “home” who has access to the same cameras.

I returned my blink kit and bought eufy and had no problems.

Might see if I can find the box and return the blink mini and go for a full Eufy system.

Do you know if I bought the Eufy 2C camera kit it I could see the cameras in the app as well as the solo indoor camera? The solo indoor camera does say "not homebase compatible", not sure if they mean it won't show up in the same app then as the 2 exterior cameras?

grudas · 3 Aug 2022 at 14:52

SkidMarkKing said:
Might see if I can find the box and return the blink mini and go for a full Eufy system.

Do you know if I bought the Eufy 2C camera kit it I could see the cameras in the app as well as the solo indoor camera? The solo indoor camera does say "not homebase compatible", not sure if they mean it won't show up in the same app then as the 2 exterior cameras?

my understanding is that it uses the same app the only difference is that those homebase compatible ones off-load their video recordings to the homebase and use homebase to connect. So routing goes

2C cam -> homebase(storage) -> internet

for the Solo camera it's got local storage on the SD and it directly connects to the internet and is available to view on the eufy security app so bypasses the homebase device completely and stores data on the camera and connects to internet from the camera for remote access etc.

so Solo(with local storage) -> internet

Kenai · 3 Aug 2022 at 14:57

A note on eufy stuff, if you're a Costco member, they've recently started selling it at pretty competitive prices