Was excited to buy this but I’ve had a much better experience with the Wyze Cam v3 Pro for a much cheaper price.
I stuck in a SD card and the battery didn’t even last 24 hours. I have to keep it plugged in for it to work.
I also has a horrible lag. I literally have sitting right next to a Wyze Cam v3 Pro so I can get a comparison and I notice a 4-5 second lag with the Battery Cam Pro.
I’m very disappointed in the quality of this camera.
Don’t have any experience with it myself, but it if is anything like Blink which several neighbors have, the more motion, the more battery it uses. If you set it to high quality, even more. AI detections? Forget it.
At least the batteries are rechargeable, they constantly have to buy lithium energizer batteries and finally convinced them to just hardwire them all.
I think they’re a bit of a niche product aimed at areas that don’t have a lot of motion normally. When you say you put in an SD card, are you recording continuously? Does it even have that option? I’d think that would burn through a battery in a couple hours at most so I’m guessing probably not.
The lag you’re talking about is that on live view, notifications, etc? Would have to guess power saving/battery saving features are to blame for that. Yeah, there’s going to be tradeoffs with a battery powered camera, if you have the option of being hardwired, that is 100% the way to go (in which case just get a v4 cam).
They do sell a charger and extra batteries, so I guess if you don’t mind changing the battery every day, at least you can always have a fresh one ready to go.
dave27. Thank you for the very thoughtful response.
Yes, I have a SD card and am recording continuously in a high traffic area.
I do have the option of being hardwired - I just had the electricians install outlets. And, I really like your suggestion for the v4 cam - I’m looking into that right now.
Thank for you very much for the insightful response!!
Yeah I’d say not a use case the battery cams are intended for.
That’s absolutely the way to go with any cam if you have the option. Even if it was a low traffic area and you could get a month out of the battery, you still gotta remember to charge it every month…
I mentioned the v4 since it is also 2.5K (QHD) quality, but honestly the OG is 99% as good image wise from what I’ve seen, I have several of them, they’re $20 at Home Depot and sometimes even less on sale at Wyze/Amazon. But I believe the BCP you have uses a user interface that more matches the look and feel of the v4 so you may prefer that. They aren’t a huge difference but the OG stripped out a few “features” that the others have. Can’t really go wrong either way in my opinion.
That will kill any battery as they all have limited charge cycles.
Lithium cells are usually good for 300 to 500 (often more, just reduced capacity) so it would be good for a few years with alternating two batteries, in theory.
Wasn’t saying it was the best option, just an option 
I charge my phone every night from around 50% and it is over 3 years old. What actually kills lithium cells is the speed of charge and heat (time spent at 100% charge isn’t great either). My phone has 'adaptive charging" which charges it at the lowest rate possible to be at 100% by the time my alarm goes off in the morning. Of course, I’m guessing the Wyze charger doesn’t have a ton of intelligence in it.
This camera is NOT meant to record all the time. No battery camera is.
What made you think the battery would record for days?
This would be a good case for solar, provided you have enough sun.
The solar will help but not allow it to truly record all the time as the OP is saying. It will die and then come back to life when the sun brings it back to life.
It’s simply not meant to record all the time. Wired Cam’s are the way to go for this.
I was just stating a fact, wasn’t trying to rain on your parade 
Correct. The best for lithium batteries is 40-80% charge. Lower or higher than for prolonged time it will shorten its life.
Not at the price point they’re selling it 
I started buying LiFPo. I think that is the acronym.
I think you are mixing apples and oranges here. Me and @dave27 were discussing lithium batteries in electronics, LifePo batteries are totally different beast. They’re good for solar setup, not Wyze scale more like home battery storage, as backup. They tend to be heavy and hold more juice than Wyze cameras can hold.
But I might be wrong, I’m getting old and can’t keep up with technology anymore haha
After L-Ion, there was originally LiPo (I think) which were in foil bags and pretty scary if you punctured one, but they were crazy powerful (I remember seeing an RC car that ran on one that could do 300MPH). I think all the large power banks are now running LiFeP04 or something like that? I think the same stuff that is in a lot of the electric cars now, basically like a C or D cell battery size.
But yeah it became too much to keep up with. There are supposedly a couple “exciting” technologies coming, one for really cheap batteries that don’t have as good of a capacity (but still good enough to make a cheap lower range electric car) and another that blows away the capacity and lifespan of anything we’ve seen. But that’s of course if you believe the hype, pretty sure both are pretty much “proof of concept” right now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the doorbell is just running standard Lithium Ion, but I’m too lazy to try and hunt down that spec. I know there are a couple AA sized cells that are really common now, all the cordless tools are using them and there are these crazy flashlights that will only run like 10 seconds until they overheat that run on them.
The thing is you can recharge LiFePo4 many times over. I bought two power units containing LiFepo4. I used to buy L-Ion.
Yeah that’s the big selling point (and they’re cheap and have good capacity). I don’t think they have quite the instantaneous power output, but put enough in parallel and it doesn’t matter.
They even make AA sized ones with a micro USB port that you can plug in and charge directly. Haven’t tried those. Of course they all have a certain lifespan and certain things like heat will reduce it significantly. But I mean, compared to the rechargeable batteries of the old days, can’t really complain.
I would love to get a hold of those Must be on Amazon somewhere?
PaleBlue are the ones I’ve seen, even in local stores. Just looked them up and they say Lithium Ion. I guess that makes sense, there are a couple really common AA sized Lithium Ion cells so they just had to shoehorn a port on there (they already had a battery management system, unless you bought them from AliExpress in which case they make nice firecrackers). I’m guessing the LiFeP04 wouldn’t be able to output enough current from a single/dual AA size battery to keep up with typical alkaline.
Looks like a couple other brands too.
Really stretching my memory but I think one of the AA sized ones is 19xxx and the newer is 22xxx but a bit bigger than AA. That’s what all the power tools are using. If I had to guess I’d say these are probably the 19xxx one.
How about these? I guess there is an external charger.
Need to do more research
LiFePo4 AA Batteries.
1500 Recharge Cycles.
600mAh is pretty low. Not sure about the brand name either 
I’d be curious what their peak output is too. Probably good for stuff like remote controls and the like?
When the 18650 (finally googled it, the 22650 are the new/improved version) cells first came out (very popular in those ridiculous flashlights I mentioned and also pretty much every power tool battery now) they all used an external charger. They have a little chip in them to prevent overcharging/overheating/etc. Someone finally figured to toss a USB port on them I guess. Probably charges a bit slower, but I think some are USB-C, so who knows. Probably not the sort of thing you want to charge at super high speed anyway.
Looks like they are both 3.7V batteries so not direct AA replacements after all, just similar size. So they’re using some other design in these standard AA ones. Actually just looked at your link again and those are 3.2 volt so you wouldn’t want to use those as standard AA either.
