Then plug it in.
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Battery is probably best for intermittent use scenarios - trail cam, weekend bird watching cam etc. Not so good for surveillance. That said, the main penalty from constant charging is battery life which provided it’s replaceable, isn’t the end of the world. It does mean expense at some point though and may cause recordings to be missed when the battery dies or if the cam is left for longer periods, when it runs out of juice.
As for security, their web site says otherwise, although for me, as mentioned above, I’m not sure it will deliver what I would require anyway.
What is important more than anything else is a back up feature, in case the mains get cut it should be able to continue to record and stream at least for 15 to 30 minutes. A small battery that recharges will do the trick,no revolution needed !!
Every summer, my current outdoor cam attracts an annoying wasp that wears down the battery with its multiple daily attempts to mate with it. Please add something to yours that either prevents this or doubles as a bug zapper.
Oh those darn insect and tech. (The reason they call problems . . . bugs?) I have a kitchen faucet that operates on an IR sensor (wave your hand in front of it and it comes on). A housefly decided to fall in love with the tiny sensor and landed it on it about a hundred times over two days - turning the water on full blast each time. (1900 square feet of house and that’s what he chose.) Finally, I decided to make the best of it and set up one of my Wyze Cams in the kitchen to make an award-winning Wyze video. Just as I was finishing, I heard my son yell from another room, "Yes!!! Finally killed that damn fly!
Anyway, I’m still super pumped for the new outdoor cam. I’m betting that they do it right. Just my experience with everything else from Wyze.
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You are missing my point, To install an outdoor camera in many locations would require proper outdoor wiring and inspections to meet the building codes of your location. As such, it is not financially reasonable to purchase outdoor cameras requiring a properly wired connection. Installing an outdoor camera with a battery would require the camera to be placed in an easily accessible location which defeats the purpose of security as anyone can get to the camera. Solar is the best option financially and practically for a user, I respect it may be more difficult for the vendor but the technology is already there. I see other vendors with this technology but want to stick with WYZE. Ideally, it would be solar that charges a battery that lasts a week or so- so that prevents any down time at all, creates a better outdoor security camera and provides cheaper installation. Granted a device a such would cost more than the current ones but have many more use cases and advantages.
Wasps are attracted to magnetic fields. I removed the magnets from my outdoor cams as the magnets weren’t needed. Other than an occasional wasp looking for an ideal nesting spot in early spring, I haven’t had a problem since.
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There is no way I could have guessed your point fron the post I originally responded to. 
I agree, if the locations aren’t already wired plugging the cameras in does become more complicated.
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if they did offer a solar set up most likely it would be an add on item
This is just my opinion, but it might be beneficial to ask the question, define outdoors. By all the reads and the preliminary information that we know about the outdoor camera, I think I can guess that part of the definition of outdoors is away from easily accessible power combined with a waterproof shell.
Which means in places we probably have not already mounted the V2 on the outside of the house.
This is just my guess
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Yeah that’s where the battery comes in , you can put a camera out on a tree or put one , in or on , an out building that doesn’t have power , but if you want to mount it somewhere where power is available then you have the option to plug it in, or get yourself a solar panel for the areas that power is not available.
OPTIONS 
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Any update on the release date of the outdoor camera? I jumped in and bought a Reolink 8 channel with four 5MP POE camera during black Friday sale. From the rumor mill, the Wyze outdoor will be a 1080p but it is all a rumor at this point. I am still hoping that Wyze will release the camera this month as I would like to built with Wyze so I only need to look at 1 app and that I will not need to run cable to the other 2 location I need the camera on. Comparing the 2 app, I like the Wyze notification better as it is easier to view events. Reolink requires multiple clicks and it does not show a snapshot of each event so you have to click on each event video. I like the Reolink video quality compare to my Wyze V2 as I can zoom in and still get a good quality image . If Wyze outdoor cam will come with a 4MP or 5MP camera I may have a reason to return the Reolink if it comes out before the end of the year so I can compare specification.
The status tag of this topic is still, “testing”. With that said, and with comments Wyze has made in this thread, it will probably be released to Early Access in the first quarter of 2020.
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Thank you ChrisA. I looked up the Reolink brand and found this great consumer based review on differently designed video cameras. It goes over the limitations and sets the appropriate use cases for various camera hardware types, while showing potential weakness of PoE installation by non-trained installers, and how many people expect too much from a single camera type.
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Nothing prevents you from doing your own solar setup like that. There are plenty of external solar panels/batteries. Having said that, if you’re talking about an always-on camera/continuous recording, the specs you’re talking about would require a pretty bulky setup. For your reference, the panel on top of this guy’s mailbox powers a V2 camera for about 2.5 days. That means you’d need to triple the size of that panel if you want a week of backup power. You also need the battery, which would probably be brick-sized or so.
If you’re talking about a panel to power a camera that only records when motion is detected by a PIR sensor, that could potentially make more sense to build into a camera itself.
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Good luck with the Reolink. The reason you can zoom in is down to the extra Megapixels. It both increases the recognition distance and the ability to zoom in without unacceptable loss of definition. However, a higher MP doesn’t necessarily equal a better image. In the day, no issue. At night, currently 2mp Starvis and newly released 4mp Starvis+ sensors offer the best night vision. Outside of these, you can find night vision quite poor on other sensors and generally it gets worse the higher the MP count.
Make sure it capture car license plate very important
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Some Reolinks have a physical zoom.
If you’re doing this for the outdoor cam, you might as well make it for all the existing WyzeCams, so the hub will function as the NAS/NVR for all the WyzeCams, much better if the sense bridge can be connected into it.
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If I follow all of your posting @WyzeDongsheng, correctly, the new outdoor camera will have a matching hub located indoors with an micro SD card for storage allowing the remote camera to go into a sleep mode and save battery life as needed.
Will it be one hub per camera?
Which transmission protocol will be used between the camera and hub?
Lens focal length?
Len’s angle percentage?
Will it be compliant California statute, Oregon’s law that goes in to effect Jan 2020 for all IOT devices?
Thank you!
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