As an engineer I love your methodical approach to reviewing these cameras You have been the best source for consistent reviews for my last few cameras. I love that you have the consistent testing for each camera it makes it easy to compare, keep up the good work!

I honestly think eufy is doing a great job with its cameras .... definitely my favorite system

Thanks for another good review. You are helping a lot of people making good decisions about what cams to buy. Some users like myself and brother put their cams under the soffit, under porch roof. As you know this style of cam does not help much when it's not getting much sun, solar panel with cord is the way to go when cams are more hidden from sun.

Thanks. Hey your almost at 200k subs ! Excellent 😊

Excited to try this camera out. I like no subscription fees so if the Eufy is not for me, I am not in too deep cost wise.

I got into the ring ecosystem crappy resolution, but bloody hell it picks up every single motion, flawlessly thought I would try the Eufy camera system, and 4K was amazing. Resolution was amazing. Everything was amazing but more than half the motions were not picked up. Epic fail. Returned all them sticking with ring for now.

Just purchased this camera for our front yard. The issue I have with this is, with human only detection, it doesn’t pick up most of the motions. While the all motions setting picks up almost everything even if I turn the sensitivity to the lowest and drains the battery real quick.

I purchased one these the solar panel works great it is always at 98 to 100 percent. The human only motion detection not so great. I literally have to walk up to the camera before it will detect motion.

Great video !!! I especially like that your videos are family friendly, we watch without worry !!!

Brilliant review again !

It's weird that they call it as S220 and S40 at the same time. The main issue I have with this camera is that its motion detection isn't that reliable. I clearly noticed that there were many missed events. Also, the motion detection doesn't work at the edges of the activity zones as expected. I am planning to return it as I already order the E330 set. Even though I have to deal with wires with that, I would like to have 24/7 recordings instead of only recording events when the motion sensor detects something (if it detects something).

I am currently in the Ring ecosystem but there seems to be a lack of innovation and other companies have now taken over. I am considering cancelling my Ring subscription on moving to the Eufy ecosystem.

I came back to you because you recommended another eufy camera that I bought and love! We had a well known security co install those awful Google Nest cameras. They’re terrible so I’m looking to replace them immediately.

Yes that’s what I want. Better then a ring spot light cam plus

Thank you for the review. Greetings from the Netherlands

Great review, and I might look into adding this into my system. I don't have a gutter mount suggestion, but I did use the Holicfun Universal Solar Panel Wall Mount for my Eufy Solar camera to get it above the shadows and into the light.

1. What is the Home Base 3...? 2. Is the S330 better and why? 3. Can you add more units? What is the maximum number?

great review with how to install. really wanted to see how the install setup goes.

I’ve invested in cameras, doorbell and locks from Eufy. The software is buggy and terrible to say the least. Still have nightmares from “THE DOOR FAILED TO LOCK” when it tries to auto lock a door, which is already locked. I still have issues connecting to my solo cam for a year now, but eufy keeps sending me instructions to restart and move the cameras closer to my router. The ring and Arlo cameras in the exact same location operate without any issues, so why can’t the Eufy? Why would I need a camera close to my router? When cameras with solar panels run out of charge, they use the panel to recharge and reconnect after a couple of days. The eufy solocam just dies and needs to be brought down to recharge. I bet they haven’t fixed it with this version of the camera as well.

ARE YOU A SPONSOR?!? for eufy because I JUST SAW YOU in THEIR COMMERCIAL and I feel transparency is important especially when you're making videos that thousands are making decisions based off of

Would like to see a long term (month+) review of this camera and performance. I was looking to upgrade from my 2C(1080) for my garage and this video made my decision but this camera aside from better pic quality has failed in motion capturing you can walk straight towards it and won't capture anything even in prefect lighting (90%), movement away or side to side from the camera it can capture motion. I'm not sure if I got a dud or what but after contacting Eufy and doing their fix recommendation still failed also put it up against a 2C Pro I bought to replace it with and the 2C Pro preforms perfectly and the s220 still fails.

Thanks for helping me out to create my security system.

Funny thing, don't forget to up your YT "Quality" setting while watching these videos. I had mine down low to reduce bandwidth, but it made the recording quality video look much worse than they really were.

They just release e330 which has 24/7 recording which I love the most. Could you please review ?

Thx for the review Bro

I like the camera, but living in northwest you have to charge it at home ones every two months, waiting for more sun to see if it gives better results from build in solar.

Very well explained thank you for your time

I have the same issue with overhangs . I still have my blink with external solar panels . I bought the eufy dual doorbell camera from watching ur review and I love it

The solar panel on the camera expected to last more than 2 years? Every consumer level solar panel (flood light, garden lights) lose effectiveness and ability to hold charge. With something as expensive as a camera, that's a big replacement cost

Thanks for this review, already own 2C and home base 2, going to replace one of the 2C with this due to solar charging as the 2C only last 3 months on a charge, hoping this will save me constant charging. Buying separate solar panel plus mount is just not asthetically pleasing

Another informative video, thank you! Has Eufy fixed its issue with manual reset/delete of all stored videos by an intruder? Also getting prompted for pre-booking of their new 4k wired E330. What do you think of waiting for those vs. this one? I know those need electrical wiring, but may be a few of those would be nice. Thanks again.

Does this camera also saves video to the cloud in addition to the local eufy drive? Has anyone checked their firewall to see what is being uploaded?

You have a ton of great info in your vids. If you had one exterior cam - plug in or battery, what would it be. I'm looking for v good quality.

Very good review. I liked how you demonstrated the feature performance at certain measured distances. Interested in the gutter mount since I hesitate to put holes in my wood.

How does the S220 compare to the 2CPro? I know the 2C has the light and the S220 has the solar panel, but size wise and performance wise? Any reason to switch to the S220?

LH, I hope you already have your wyze floodlight can pro review video in the works 👀👀👀

Would have liked a review focused on wifi performance since most folks getting a solocam would likely use it without a homebase. Still appreciate your review though.

I’m trying to connect my s220 solocam but it won’t..2 days trying to do it . What is wrong

I hope Euphy comes out with silicone covers for the s220

I'm interested in purchasing this security camera but I need to know if there's a feature in the app settings for the camera to continue recording motion activity when I turn off my cell phone or close the app? Also will it continue recording activity when I'm out of wifi range and when I get back home I can check the video clips?. Any help would be appreciated.....

Worth the money!

Eufy only works on 2.4 GHz. Learned the hard way. I like the ecosystem eufy has built. Compact solar unit. Why no 5 GHz? Now I need to search for another camera. ANy recommendations.

I think I have a defective unit, I've had it about a week and gets plenty off sunlight and set to solar yet I'm at 65%. Something is off as it'll show solar panel with the yellow sun symbol, sometimes the battery icon will blink charge and sometimes not. I was told by CS it should only show yellow next to solar that's how you know it's charging

I’m new to the whole security camera thing for my townhome… Would you recommend me buy the version 2 without homebase or v3 with homebase. Let’s assume money isn’t an option. Which is needed for capturing video footage if needed to review at a later date…and which is best overall. I say this as I prefer to buy once as to constantly updating products year to year…thx

its nice but doesn't have much feature difference from the S40 Or anything else other than solar power.. I have two s40s and it works well for my application you should do their solar panel camera review next..

I have trust issues ... I had 3 S40 cameras and all 3 had to be returned for water damage, failing to charge via solar panel, and etc

Amazon reviews sure hate on this camera. They say it misses lots motions. Sigh, off to find something else.

Nice review, we thought of getting eufy but went with ring instead. You should review arid new security system and the smart myQ garage door company came out with a video doorbell keypad. Should look at both of them and do a review

Mine has a failure showing the charging in the app. It also has significant issues with recognizing a human using its AI. Very often nothing is recognized, especially when you have a tree in your garden. It also falsely recognised a fly as human. Eufy is going to send me a new camera because of the charging issue.

I underestimated the actual true size of this camera until I saw it in real life today. It is absolutely tiny.

@lifehackster I love all you videos and your voice lol…do I need to buy a homebase if I buy outdoor cameras from eufy? I have a doorbell from eufy but I do not have a homebase. Should I buy one?

I noticed when you mounted some of the cameras to the building is that just to help the securement of the mount I know some of the screws don't look that heaviest for the support. What do you think of the hardware that's a company with the cameras do you like it thank you in advance LH

Since everyone already complains about Reolink’s 20-25 frames per second - I can’t imagine 15 frames per second being applauded going forward. Not working in sub-zero temperatures is also a huge issue for those of us in the northeast, where temps can plummet and stay below 0 for weeks at a time every winter.

No micro SD card for more storage is a deal breaker 🤷🏻‍♂️ 8gb internal is nothing

I had the version with the spotlights, The first one failed within a year and it was a hassle to get it replaced. The replacement failed within 6 months. The second one lights just failed after 2 years but the camera still works. i'm not going to purchase again. Looking at reolink POE. or battery w/solar power.

I use the gauter mount snd i add it a thik foam the help it the guater mount to be steady and tight and i have it for my solar panel for 3 years and jts working vrsat so far

I may have missed it,,but can this thing do rolling recording?

Did I understand correctly that the camera videos in the device or the homebase can be erased by simply pressing the sync button in the camera? Doesn’t this make it extremely easy to steal?

Thanks for sharing

Close but it's missing an alarm.. it's one thing to see what happened but an audible alarm would make this perfect

How many of these cameras can be connected to the home base 3?

When the S220 picks up motion and you have the siren set to go off, is there a siren also on the Homebase 3? (There is on my 1st generation Homebase and Eufy E cams).

Not happy with how the Eufy ecosystem has been developing. Without a subscription, my notifcations are often really slow, even with no thumbnail. Access to videos rarely works when I'm on the road. I've had nothing but frustration trying to get my devices working with my Homebase 3 because Eufy doesn't play well with mesh router nodes. Basically Eufy gives me a record of events, but has become less and less useful over the years and despite my upgrades like the Homebase 3.

Oh yeah, these are great until you pass the 1 year warranty date! We got all of ours in 2021. Worked great for 9 months. Then slowly started having issues. Fast forward to today, NONE of them work! Eufy doesn't give a shit either. Money literally flushed down the toilet. Mosr these 'reviews" get free product to show. Like salesmen for whichever product they're reviewing. Unless they state that they have NOT received the product for free, it's a biased sales pitch.

Wish it could connect to an NVR from a third party and not require internet to work at least locally, this will allow for better image quality and lower latency as well.

What is WYZE Car and what is it used for? Never knew WYZE have a product like that.

What is the range for connection? I have a Homebase 2 that I would like to connect to, but isn't necessary. I can also simply connect it to wifi, but again depends on range. Can you still connect to the camera from the Eufy app when connected directly to wifi?

Good if they had heating on solar panel to melt ice.

The camera was working good for about 1 week. Now I get a “failed to load images” error message. What could be causing this problem? I’m still within the window to return this camera back to Amazon. For me this is unacceptable when compared to other cameras that I have been using for more than 10 years. I have not installed the E340. I may return that as well. Any thoughts??

I had a really bad experience with the S330 and I just realized I had gutter mounted it with that same gutter mount you showed and I’m curious if the excess wobble messed up resulting in the failed motion detections can you give clarity on that

LH, is the S220 motion detection more or less reliable when connect to HB3 (bionic AI) vs Wi-Fi?

Should I leave the Battery source on battery or external solar for the solar on the camera? Thanks

This camera still drains even during the summer when the sun is directly on the solar panel for around 12 hours a day. In the winter it’s less than useless.

Some of the 1080P hd camaras have very clear image compared to this 2K camara with choppy video, maybe even better than some 4k camaras. My question is what determines how clear and smooth the video is ?

Hi LifeHackster, I have a I have a couple of questions for you. I am interested in the following. If you have the Eufy hub, can you see what the cameras recorded say the next day? I want to avoid going and pulling the card from said camera to check what it recorded. #2, If you're not ho, couldcan yct see what was recorded too? I appreciate your time much appreciated.

Hi, Thank you for the vidéo, Is the Eufy S220 SoloCam Google Nest Nub compatible?

Is that choppy audio/video sync normal for Eufy?

Okay so which version of the Eufy battery/solar is better? I really want to jump on the Eufy team and remove all my Wyze cameras, as I've wasted too much money with Wyze and their disappointing camera's with AI.

Thanks again for the video very much appreciated. Do the most ip-camera use pir sensor? And what does it mean or do? Does that helps speeding up the motion sensor detection?

while it seems compelling i expect there’s no 24/7 recording in order to conserve battery life.

Dear Lifehackster i ❤ all of your video's i think you should design a security outdoor camera light with all the bells and whistles l would be your first Customer.

i'm switching to eufy but not to this one because i already have homebase 3 with additional two cameras with integrated solar panels and in my expierence this is not a device for me, because when the trafic are greater the cam will drain their juice really quick better opyion for me and others willl be still eufycam 2 pro with solar panel

Is it possible to expand internal storage with SD card ? Is it possible to access the camera directly from a phone? Without a WiFi or home base ? I’m looking a video on really remote location and once in to check the videos when I close to it.

Like Eufy, but the S40 solar takes to dam long to charge before I can take off and set it up. I don't have that patience

I am really curious about the Imou Cell Go with panel charging. It looks like a good deal for what seems like a pretty good camera. Anyone used it already ?

Thanks L.H.

Can i ask what camera you have that faces your garden but listed as a indoor? looking to do the same thing

Do you need a homebase (hdd) storage when you only buy the cameras? 5:06

I'm trying to find an animal that's been hanging out on my property. Would this be good for that? It usually comes at night.

Is this stopping recording when internet goes down?

I had a bad experience with the eufy video doorbell so won’t be getting this but yes other brands should do this though I think ring has a solar panel you can add and adjust the angle.

Is there an outside camera with an automatic alarm so you don't have to trigger it manually?

Have you found any gutter clips worth trying?

Solo cam S220 has many problemes: - worst ever wall mounting set, when you try to tighten the nut near the wall, the screw near the camera opens. Almost imposible for a single person to fix at in the desired angle. Not possile to fix it at 90 degrees from the wall, very important sometimes because you need sun exposure. - web portal acces (for laptop view) not working , at least in my country. I enabled acces from app, it generated a code, but I always got the wrong email or password message. I tried different browswes, not working - once you connect it to the network, it stays connected, even if you turn it off from app. A lot of internet traffic shown in my router from it. It is not possible to turn it off, it has not a physical button. Maybe the chinese guys can hear you if they want to. I have only chinese cams, but you can turn them off , by unplug them. This one has a battery for 1-2 months. Do not trust good reviews, explore another options.

Can I order just the cameras and not the homebase? Will it work the same without the homebase?

Any product review should have a breakdown of pros and cons at the end, otherwise people are left with many unanswered questions.

You can’t mix and match with a ring system, correct?

Question I got eufy but I don't have half the settings you have I don't have privatization zones or record length nothing

Can you plug in and use Eufy's external solar panel?

Can these be easily intergrated into a system with the older Home Base 2?