Ya i didn’t get one 
It will probably just draw more attention to the camera. People trying to figure out what it is.
One day they’ll be worth a fortune on eBay… 
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Has anyone been silly enough to place the hat on the camera they set up outside?? LOL 
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Ok, I set my Outdoor Cam up next to my back door. Although the picture quality is good, the service is horrible. There’s a major delay in the recording. The signal and connection to the base is horrible. I might be returning for a refund very soon.
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That’s a dam shame.
What do you mean? You can only see detail on non-moving objects. Once they move, then it blurs, and you can’t make out any facial features.
It was 130F and continued to rise as I left the stream open. I didn’t check the camera temp.
Wyze we really need a solar panel for Outdoor Cam!!
Had mine for about 1.5 days and at 96%. I’ll have to charge this thing once a month!!!
Not good…
I don 't have a WCO yet, and agree that this seems worrying, but I wonder - will the discharge graph line be linear?
A lot of batteries seem happiest between 40% and 90% (or something like that) , so maybe the drop off speed will slow as that battery gets closer to half charged?
Just asking - I’m watching the results of early adopters just like everyone else…
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They don’t got the required circuitry inside the unit to have always on external power. So, a solar option is a no go.
Trust me, solar slacks up a bit at night so it is def not always ON.
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True, solar don’t work well at night, but the problem is, when the batteries are full, and the solar panel keeps charging them.
I would sorta hope that solar panels themselves would have that kind of protection circuitry by now, or not so much? I really don’t know…?
How is the Solar controller going to know how full the battery is of the cam?
Normally, you hook up Solar to some controller, and that is hooked up to the batteries, and the controller can monitor those. Here, you just have a USB connection that is power only AFAIK.
Don’t know exactly. I imagined the solar panels having a sort of a volt meter (controller?) that would automatically check the status of whatever they were feeding power to? But EE is not my strong suit…
Smart USB chargers monitor the current and turn off the port once it drops below a threshold. Since the current drops the closer you get to 100% it is possible for the charger to “know” when the battery is full. The problem with those chargers is that they generally stay off until you unplug and replug the USB cable, but with a solar charger I imagine they could build it to turn back on at the beginning of the next light cycle.
That being said I have never used a solar panel that works that way, but I have several USB battery packs that shut off when connected devices are fully charged.
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I’ve asked to return mine and haven’t gotten a response in 4 days.
I got mine a few days ago. Apparently I’m one of a few who thinks to works great! It does everything I need to monitor my car port. Resolution is great and barely any battery has been used at this point.