many of you have been waiting for the Outdoor Wyze Cam and today I'm going to
show you your first look at it and the FCC filing as well as some insights that
I have into what this device looks like it's capable of and what we can expect
from the Wyze Outdoor Cam as it comes out very soon
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today I'm going to save you time by bringing it all together on the Wyze
Outdoor Camera preparing you for this system coming and letting you know what
this device is going to be all about and how it's going to impact your smart home
now what we have today is an FCC filing that has become very public and it was
back in November of 2019 that this filing was put in now the point about
that or why I'm talking about that right now is because it could actually change
a little bit we know Wyze for the last couple of months has been in their
second round of testing so there could be modifications to this but I think we
can look at what we have today as the basis for what we are going to get now
I'm going to give you a moment it's a moment of silence to look at the Wyze
Outdoor Cam and go ahead so yes it looks like a Death Star and you need to just
prepare for this being the look now there's a reason it looks like this and
we'll get to that in a little bit but what you see as soon as you look at that
device is you see the camera lens on the front and above it you see a light
sensor below it you see that big gaudy black cover that is covering a PIR
sensor and that's the big reason for that big ugly cover it's covering that
it's blocking out certain types of light so as not to trigger the PIR sensor to
motion record all the time based on light this is a really important
component so it looks like that for a reason now bottom right we also see a
microphone port which is obviously going to be very important flipping around the
camera on the back side you will see a rubber covering over what is the
charging port or the power port for this device and you also see a status light
now the bottom of this device is just as interesting as anything because unlike
the Wyze Cam here which has this fully attached and it's you know it's
difficult to remove without getting deep into the camera the base is meant to be
a magnetic removable base and the reason for that is you have a couple of
different mounting options here you have ceiling mounting and you have wall
mounting options but underneath it all and and I should say we still have the
setup or the reset button and we do have a micro SD card slot on there as it
stands today now right in the middle looks to be a tripod mount and this will
give you kind of one of the first use cases outside of the norm I think I
think the intention is that you could use this as a trail cam and stick it on
a tripod like many people have with their standard trail cameras so that's
one of the interesting little uses there that I've seen already with the device
will go into some more of the internals in a moment but the base station is an
important component here it has two antenna on it for wireless transmission
it also has adapter a power adapter but it also has a USB port for charging the
cameras themselves so you can actually attach to the micro USB port a cable
that you're going to get with this device and then charge the cameras
because they have their own internal battery now the base station as I said
they'll be powered by the wall but it also has a land power or a land port for
connectivity options so it remains to be seen whether or not for sure we'll be
able to set up the base station with wireless and wired options or if it will
just be a wired option my assumption although this is not confirmed every
anywhere is that they will have both options available it will obviously work
better with a full wired connection if you have a lot of cameras attached to
the base station now that's not a number we have access
to either as how many cameras will be attachable to this base station but I
expect in the end both indoor and outdoor cameras to be able to attach to
this system now the other thing about that base station is it has its own
micro SD port and this would lead us and and this is again not confirmed to
believe that we could locally record to that base station with our different
cameras how many at a time that that remains to be seen and how effective
that's going to be remains to be seen with the wireless transmission which is
one of the first internals I'm going to talk to you about so internally these
cameras only have the ability to do 2.4 gigahertz wireless transmission now they
actually have the ability to do bluetooth on the RF chip that's been
included but that's been turned off as of that FCC filing so it does not look
like Wyze will be using bluetooth technology whatsoever in the Wyze
Outdoor Cameras it does have that 2.4 gigahertz but it's only wireless B G and
n so 802.11b/g/n and that is a little bit of a reduction off of many
of the premier cameras but I think it's a little bit expected when we talk about
being battery powered which is the other major component of this so no wireless
AC no wireless AX and that's kind of to be expected now the battery is
interesting to me and you know we can do a quick comparison to a Blink XT uses
two double-a batteries and they say you're gonna get two years of life
you're not but anyways the the Wyze cams here the Wyze Outdoor Cameras they
actually have what a lot of you will recognize I mean I have these in my
child's RC racer and they're usually rechargeable and they are in this case
and they stick them together in a pack of four and then they put them in which
is what physically makes the Wyze outdoor camera larger than its
predecessor here the Wyze Cam v2 so you're going to see this be a little bit
of a larger Death Star therefore you so know what
they're saying is it is 19 to 24 watt hours available on that battery life and
if you looked at the base power requirements for the Wyze Outdoor Camera
it's 5 volts at 1.5 amp maximum but what we typically see in these is somewhere
between one and two watts of usage all the time and that's you can be
continuously recording to an SD card so you know what you're not going to be
replacing those batteries on a really regular basis in terms of you know every
couple of weeks or anything I would expect a number of months and maybe up
to a year off of that battery set pretty reliably with some reduced settings
you're not going to be continuously recording not at all and you aren't
going to have a lot of motion activations and remember that's why they
have that cover on the front that makes it look like a death star so I think
what I'm saying to you is there's going to be some significant choices to be
made in terms of battery power or powering by wall so you still will be
able to do that when you look at the manual you know there's a couple of
things that will jump out at a lot of people oh my gosh it looks like one base
station per camera no that's not happening
it looks like you can only charge through that back port no it is able to
be powered all the time through your standard 120 volt connection and an
adapter so you're going to have the ability to put these in a number of
different ways it's going to perform a lot like these cameras but better for
the outdoor conditions so I think it's looking like a great system and I think
it's going to line up within the overall Y system really well the only things
that that you know I can kind of poke at a little bit that wireless transmission
I feel like we should have the AC option a little bit but if they think they can
handle 16 cameras then I think everyone will be happy with Wireless and the
other thing is I'm not seeing any filings in any of
country's again I am seeing that the testing was done by a lab that can do
Canadian radio frequency testing but not necessarily csa approval or ul C or any
of that so we have yet to see any other country look like they're going to get
these cameras I'm sure you guys have a ton of other questions related to this
camera I will give you whatever I can and I am constantly researching to keep
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