For the longest time i've thought about installing outdoor cameras for my smart
home but never did it simply because i never
want to go through the hassle of wiring outside or going through the
hassle of climbing a ladder every other month to
change out batteries. It's just something i don't want to do that often.
Well recently there has been a bunch of new cameras out there on the market that
advertise that their cameras will last a entire
year. So i decided to go ahead and pull the trigger on one
and because recently i checked out the eufy
2k indoor camera and it was such a great camera.
i decided to check out the brand new eufycam 2 pro. In addition
I'll be checking out their older version the 1080p.
Let's go ahead and check it out. Now jumping right into the differences
between the 2k and the 1080p obviously there is a
resolution difference one is 2k and one is 1080p and then the
second obvious difference is the price point if
you buy the two pack with the homebase right now at best buy the pro version is
about $350 and the 1080p version goes for about $300.
I have seen sales of the pro version around the same price
as the 1080p version but stay around to the end of this video and i'll tell you
why you might not want to pick up that version
even if it's cheaper. Now when it came to video footage and
the resolution, they do mention the pro is 2k but when comparing it to the 1080p
version i saw no difference.
Alright!
This is the video quality test in the eufy ap.
First up is the outdoor 2K camera. This is 1080p and it looks pretty
good, and now i want to switch over to the new
2k pro camera the outdoor. To me this is
exactly the same i don't see any difference between these
two cameras but for comparison i'm going to throw in
here now the eufy 2k indoor
streaming in 2k and as you can see here here is the real difference
so i don't think the two outdoor cameras are any different
whatsoever the quality is exactly the same
save your money and get the 1080p version.
Even at night it's pretty identical can you guess which one's which?
The first clip was the pro version second one was 1080p.
If you're in the home kit unfortunately homekit secure video only supports 1080p.
so if you do get the 2k pro version it will be downgraded 1080p.
You can see here that this footage at least to me is much better even
even though all three of these videos are all in
1080p. Now other than that these two cameras
are identical those are the only two differences and when it comes to battery
life they say it can last up to 365 days the entire year which just sounds
awesome to me. It doesn't have a replaceable battery so
you have to climb up a ladder if you place it up too high where you can't
reach it and take it down plug it in and charge it up and then take it back
out and put it back up. I've had the camera for about 45 days
now i'm down to only about 85
now working out that math that works out to about nine or ten
months although i've been using this a little bit more than i would normally do
it because i've been testing it in those 45 days so
it's possible even in the home kit mode that i've been using it in
it might last an entire year but it all depends on
a lot of different factors including how often you check your camera, weather,
the list goes on and on but even if i get nine months out of you
know one of these cameras i'm quite happy with that. I did read somewhere that
if you do use it in homekit mode you're going to be using up more battery
life. I don't know if that's true or not but i'll definitely be updating my full
pros and cons on my website so if you want to get update on
the battery life check out my website right up there but unfortunately
when you do connect it to homekit unfortunately there is some issues for
some reason it only records a couple seconds
in the pro version i don't know why it's
doing that i have mentioned that to my contact at eufy
and so they know about it and i've heard
other people complain about on other websites
um so hopefully that will be fixed but if you are going to be using this with
homekit it really doesn't matter which camera
you get because the resolution is reduced down
to 1080p in the home kit now you might be
thinking ahead and say hey homekit might eventually
upgrade to a 2k system so might as well invest in
the 2k camera but unfortunately because of that
issue with home kit secure video where it's only recording for a couple of
seconds per clip i would say hold off on the pro
version and just save your money and get the
1080p version work which works a lot better the only issue
i have is that is a motion based camera which what i'm trying to
say is that it's not going to do any recordings
until it actually senses motion so if it
doesn't see motion it's not going to record anything so if
your camera is up too high the first couple weeks i had this
camera up too high and it didn't pick up anyone's motion as they're walking by
so unfortunately you can't place this up high where
it won't actually see people or animals or cars or whatever you're trying to
pick up it has to be within maybe 10 feet and
you don't want to mount too low because then people can mess
with it and take it even though it does have a low alarm
system um you know they can easily take it and run
and no one's going to hear that alarm also notice in the home app both cameras
unfortunately do not support the talk feature
unlike the eufy app where you do have that talk feature and you're able to
talk this one with the onboard speaker that the camera
has for some reason the home app doesn't
have it for these gamers hopefully that will be coming soon other than that it
worked great in the homekit as far as hardware goes
you get the two mounts you get the magnetic amount which is
quick and easy to put up they say they only use it inside but you
can definitely use the outside it also comes with a home base that you
will have to use this does connect to your network you
can use it over wifi it is a wifi extender also but to set
this up you will have to connect this to your router or to your switch
just to stay up and then once everything's set up you can actually
move it to the location that you want just so
you can get better signal um to your cameras and other devices
because they do mention that is a wi-fi repeater the home base also works with
the ufe doorbells so if you want to add a doorbell you
don't have to buy the the entire kit you can just buy the
doorbell by itself which they do sell as one accessory and just add it to your
current home base unfortunately both of the current
doorbells that uv sells does not support homekit there is a
rumor that they're going to be supported but i would not be buying these for home
kit if i was you until they actually work with homekit
but make sure you subscribe to this channel
so you get notified of when eufy does have at homekit doorbell
i think these cameras are great if you're not going to be using a homekit
definitely if you can get the the pro version
cheaper than the 1080p version definitely go for that
otherwise there's really no need for that there's really no difference in the
video quality in my opinion in the uv app or when you download it
from the uv app if you're going to be using a home kit
once again do not buy the pro version not because
it doesn't it's not supported yet just because of the issue with homekit
secure video only recording for about a second so
my opinion is stick with the 1080p until they fix that and you know that the pro
versions are working and then make this if you haven't bought
by then then make a decision um based on price of which one to get
if you guys want to see an update on pricing i'll definitely be leaving
affiliate links down below we can pick up
both versions and some other uv products if you guys have any questions let me
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