Well the key feature is reliability and performance. With this as the foundation, you can build up all the other nice to have features.
In the market place you can see the real angst and frustrations people have once the rubber meets the road…
e.g.
Delayed Motion Camera Recordings- the suspicious person has already moved outside the camera’s viewpoint
Camera Recordings Failure - MicroSD card corrupted after a few months of use.
Battery Failure - Batteries unable to cope with the outdoor heat thus shortening battery life
Wifi Reliability - Wifi is great when it works. Sucks when say you live in an area where some fellas equipment operation results in interference and cloud recording get’s messed up.’
This are all real engineering challenges and it’s good that wyze has been designing, testing, iterating & hopefully they manage to strike a good balance. Time will tell.
These two are somewhat dependent on whether the camera is constantly powered or not.
In a battery-powered camera, the motion is necessary to trigger the camera to turn on and start recording, which by default means that the very beginning of the motion won’t be captured. But they can certainly work to make that delay as short as possible.
MicroSD failure is similar. In an always-powered camera that’s constantly writing and rewriting, MicroSD failure is an eventual inevitability. This is an engineering challenge for manufacturer of the card, not for Wyze. High endurance cards are engineered to withstand consant rewrite cycles longer than standard ones. In a battery-powered camera that only records when motion is detected, I’d expect a MicroSD card to last much longer.
So whats the status on these outdoor cameras? Are they going to come out with em anytime soon, or should I just buy one of those hideous birdhouse cases on amazon? :')
I still have only heard that they are aiming for this year, so hopefully soon. I do have 3 cameras outside in those ‘hideous’ birdhouse cases from Amazon lol. I also have 1 just outside unprotected, so far they are all doing great.
Don’t know what this has to do with Wyze, unless they sell it. But very interesting for me since I’m buying a condo in DR and shipping American good there is a hassle. So thanks
Are there any official company updates on this? I’ve been holding off buying more WYZE cams because I’ve been waiting for the outdoor cam. But if there’s no longer an intention to release an outdoor version, then I might as well buy the indoor cams plus aftermarket housings.
I also don’t need batteries or solar… just a weatherproof version of the current model would be great.
