Gabe Turner: Hey, folks. This is Gabe at Security Baron. If you're looking for a top-notch home
security video option but don't want to break the bank, we may have just the solution for
you with our best affordable home security cameras.
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Gabe: In today's video of best affordable cams, we'll be going over our favorite cams
under $120, including the Wyze Cam v2, the Tend Indoor 2, the Blink XT2, and the Amazon
Cloud Cam, basing our comment off of the Security Baron necessary features test so you have
every bit of information you need to make the right decision.
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Gabe: If you would like to see a complete list of our favorite home security cameras,
google Security Baron best home security cameras. If you have a question about today's video,
leave us a comment, and I'll get back to you.
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Gabe: Let's kickoff today's best affordable cameras video by looking at the $19.99, Wyze
Cam v2. It's only $19.99, but it's coming through with that 1080p high-definition video.
The colors are nice and vivid. It's very even, one of the most consistent visual spectacles
you're going to get for a camera at this price point.
It has motion-tagging, which you'll see in our video, with that nice green outline. You
can follow the action no matter what's going on. If you extend that to its night vision,
it has four infrared LEDs that give you the capacity to see exactly what's happening even
when it's dark.
As you see in our footage, I'm pretty easy to make out. No matter if I'm close to the
cam or far away, it seems to adjust well and make sure it's capturing the best picture
possible. That's a really impressive element of the Wyze Cam v2.
In addition to that solid video, you get two-way audio with the Wyze Cam v2. You can have a
nice engaging conversation with whoever happens to be in the room with the built-in microphone
and speakers.
If you want to save those clips, you have two options. You can do the local storage
which is popping in a microSD card. You can even continuously record if you decide to
go with that option. What I mean by that, that means that you can just have a go on
to as long as your SD card will last and then others begin to overwrite the oldest files.
In addition, you get three cloud storage of two weeks. For 14 days, you get that cloud
storage option to save and view your clips. While you do have local and cloud storage,
they're both finite. You're going to want to think about the best way of getting longevity
out of those event and clip recordings.
Maybe you also want to just queue down the sheer number of notification to get on your
phone throughout the day. Wyze gives you a few options to help with that. You can, of
course, just schedule the actual camera, the times which it records.
For example, you decide, "You know what? I don't want anything happening at night. Let
me make sure I turned everything off at that point." You can do that. You don't have to
have it on during certain parts of the day. You could automate it with other elements
of your home. That's a great option.
On top of that, you can dial in the motion settings that you want to receive. If you
don't want to get every time a tree moves in the background, you can just cut that down
with the Wyze app.
The most impressive element and the one that I incorporate with my Wyze Cam is person detection.
I basically don't care what's happening as long as there's not a person in the space
where I didn't expect them to be. You can do that with the Wyze app.
The other artificial intelligence component is the ability of the Wyze Cam v2 to listen
for smoke and CO2 alarms and alert you to that danger as well. That's our look at the
impressive feature set that you get for under $20 with the Wyze Cam v2.
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Gabe: Well, hold on. I hope you're enjoying today's video of best affordable cameras.
If you want to be kept up to date on the newest in home security cameras, smart home security,
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We're dropping new content weekly. All right, let's get back to the video.
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Gabe: The next camera in our best affordable cams video is the Tend Indoor 2. It's coming
through with that crisp, clear 1080p high-definition video and a 125-degree field of view. It's
capturing things well and capturing it in detail. If you convert that to the night vision,
it's also just as crisp and clear.
I'm impressed with the way things come out. No matter if I'm near to the camera or far,
it being day or night, you're going to have a nice solid perspective of what's going on
in your home.
Not only can you see what's going on, but you can also hear it with the Tend Indoor
2, which is equipped with that two-way audio. You can have a nice clear conversation with
whoever happens to be on the other side with the built-in microphone and speakers.
Now that you've got these nice audio and video clips, you probably want to be able to store
them. You do get a free seven days of cloud storage with the Tend Indoor 2. It'll give
you all your motion-triggered events in a nice history that are neatly organized in
a way that lets you download and share those clips.
There's more. You get artificial intelligence with the Tend Indoor 2 and what they call
intelligent facial recognition. The way it works is like this. You simply put in the
people in your household or your friends' faces, and it comes to recognize them.
From that point, you'll know if someone is recognized or not when they come into your
home. You can have a nice organized assembly of all the people that have come in right
there in your event history. You can share those clips with whoever you would like to.
At $59.99, you're getting some serious value from the Tend Indoor 2 with its impressive
video quality and artificial intelligence with facial recognition technology. I must
say the value capture is pretty impressive.
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Gabe: The third cam on our best affordable cameras is going to be the Blink XT2 coming
in at $99.99. It's rather impressive when it comes to visual quality because it has
1080p high-definition video. It's going to capture you crisply and clearly. If you note
in this video, I'm walking around. It's staying with me. We did the globe test. It looks good.
Even in night vision, when I ride up, it doesn't wash me out or anything of that nature. You
can see me quite well from close and far. Overall, pretty impressed with the visual
quality on the Blink XT2. Fortunately, the Blink XT2 also comes with two-way audio so
you can have a nice little conversation with whoever happens to be on the other side of
the camera directly from your phone.
You probably want to hold on to these clips and conversations. Fortunately, Blink makes
it easy to do so. They begin by giving you a free 7,200 seconds. That's two hours of
cloud storage. They make it easy for you to share and save those clips right there in
the app.
Maybe you want to cut down on the number of notifications you get throughout the day or
simply reduce the motion-triggering events that come up in your free cloud storage. They
make it easy to do so with the motion zones.
Motion zones, essentially they allow you to focus on particular areas where you actually
want to be paying attention and have the camera begin recording, which is great because the
Blink XT2 is both indoor and outdoors. It is weather-rated to be outside and can handle
snow, rain, anything you throw at it.
If you have your camera out in the yard, you probably don't want the fringes, the edges
of your yard to be captured in every little bit of motion. You probably want to focus
on something like gesture port. Fortunately, you have that ability.
This may sound complicated, but think about this. The moment you set this up with two
AA batteries, you're going to get two years of battery life out of your Blink XT2. It's
basically a set-it-and-forget-it home security camera.
For $99.99, you're getting a hardy, durable indoor-outdoor home security camera with pretty
impressive visuals and the ability to last for two years on two AA batteries. I had to
say that the Blink XT2 gets my mark of approval.
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Gabe: The final cam today in our best affordable cams video is the Amazon Cloud Cam coming
in at $119.99. It has that crisp, clean 1080p. You can see things the way they are meant
to be seen. It has a 120-degree field of view, so nice check mark.
There, you're going to be able to see me on the fringes of the shot. You're going to be
able to see me from far away, close, all within this room. That even extends to darkness.
You're going to be able to get eight infrared LEDs capturing every element of what's happening
in the nighttime. We're really impressed with the visual quality on the Amazon Cloud Cam.
You probably want a couple of that nice video with some audio. Fortunately, you get two-way
audio with the Amazon Cloud Cam. You can have a nice engaging conversation with whoever
happens to be on the other side of the camera due to its built-in microphone and speaker.
When it comes to saving those nice audio and video clips that you've taken, you do get
24-hour free cloud storage. They make it easy for you to download those clips in that 24
hours. You simply click on that or tap on that right there in the Amazon Cloud app,
and you're ready to go.
If you'd like to cut down the number of notifications and clips that are saved throughout the day,
you can do so with the motion settings from the Amazon Cloud app, significantly reducing
the number of clips that are recorded dependent on your motion sensitivity.
A big, fun element of the Amazon Cloud Cameras is integration with the Amazon Virtual Assistant.
You can be sitting in one room and decide, "You know what? I'd like to see what's happening
in my living room," and it can throw the video directly to your Amazon Echo Show or Amazon
Fire TV. That's a fun and useful element that you get with your Amazon Cloud Cam.
Overall, we had a good and useful time with the Amazon Cloud Cam at under $120. It's excellent
in terms of its day and night vision and its integrations with the Amazon Virtual Assistant.
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Gabe: Now that we've gone over our best affordable cams, you know that short dollars can go a
long way, beginning with the $19.99 Wyze Camera. You note that not only can you get 1080p but
also person detection and something at a very affordable price.
Moving into the Tend Indoor 2 which not only gives you that free cloud storage but also
facial recognition technology for under $60. Playing right into that $99.99 that you pay
for the Blink XT2, but you get indoor-outdoor weather-resistant technology, motion zones,
and a two-year battery life from two AA batteries.
Our final pick, the Amazon Cloud Cam, which comes with that 120-degree filtered view,
coupled with that eight infrared LED night vision, 1080p high-definition quality, and
the ability to throw that video directly to your Amazon Fire or Amazon Echo Show. Overall,
we're mighty pleased with the affordable spectrum provided by our four cameras.
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Gabe: That concludes our look at the best affordable cams. If you appreciated today's
video, give us a like, and hit that subscribe button. As always, this is Gabe at Security
Baron. Be secure.
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