Gabe: Hey folks, this is Gabe at Security Baron, and I know you all love your Wyze Cam,
and you want to take it outdoors.
Let's see we have the solution today with a review of the Wyze Cam in conjunction with
the Mount Wall Mount Cover.
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Gabe: In today's video I'm going to be turning my Wyze Cam into a Wyze Cam outdoor in conjunction
with the Mount Wall Mount and Cover.
Now, for purposes of simplifying of this video, I'm going to call it the Wyze Outdoor Cam.
I'm going to be providing you with some pros and cons, design, feature set, the installation
experience, the mobile application, before answering some common questions giving you
a brief recap and telling you who I think this device is for.
Now, if you want to get a full breakdown on the details on the Wyze Cam with the Mount
Wall Mount and Cover, head on over to securitybrand.com where I have a comprehensive written review.
Not only will you find that review, but you'll find more information on other Wyze products
like Wyze Sensors and the Wyze Cam Pan, along with guides and tips on how to set up your
home security apparatus.
This can all be found at securitybaron.com.
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Gabe: Let's kick off today's review of the Wyze Cam Outdoor by looking at some pros and
cons, beginning with the pros.
The main pro being that you can now take this outdoors using the Mount Wall Mount and cover.
You have this outdoors, it has a little bit of a hood to make sure it doesn't get wet.
It also is really easy to set up in terms of where.
It has a 360-degree rotation, it has a 90-degree tilt, so basically any footage you're trying
to capture outside of your home, you can do so with this case.
It's going to capture those things really well.
We're actually surprisingly impressed by how well it did outside, considering it's not
built for that.
It doesn't have HDR, yet it still captures things really well outside.
Even the night vision was impressive.
With its four infrared LEDs, I was able to see exactly what was happening on my front
porch.
When it comes to local and cloud storage, it has both of those elements, so you can
watch your clips from wherever you happen to be.
You can have continuous recording with that local storage, that micro SD card, or you
can just use the 14 days of cloud storage that you get for free with every Wyze Cam,
or you can do as I do and use them together.
When it comes to cons on the Wyze Outdoor, the wall mount and cover is not exactly weather-sealed.
I do think it does a good job of protecting the Wyze Cam from the elements, but you may
want to ensure that you put it underneath an awning or a windowsill to ensure that everything
stays in order.
When it comes to the Wyze Cam itself, the cord is only six feet long, so you may want
to consider using something to extend that if you decide to put it in a more adventurous
location.
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Gabe: Whoa, hold on.
I hope you're enjoying today's Wyze Cam Outdoor review.
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We're dropping new content weekly.
All right, let's get back to the video.
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Gabe: Now that we've gone over the pros and cons for the Wyze Cam Outdoor, I want to talk
about its design.
You have the Mount Wall Mount and cover.
It's made out of plastic, it's white.
It serves its purpose as being pretty inconspicuous.
It's pretty light, but it's really easy to set up and it fits quite well around the device.
They've done a great job with it.
It's pretty simple, there aren't too many pieces.
You've got your mount itself, which allows it for it to retain some flexibility in terms
of the tilt.
You can of course rotate it with just the two pieces.
These two pieces make up the casing for the Wyze Cam itself.
There's no jiggling around, there's nothing happening.
There's a hood to help protect it from the elements a bit, and then there are two openings
for the actual lens and camera itself and for the motion sensor on your Wyze Cam.
They thought of everything because right on the bottom you have the hole for your actual
cord.
You can have this thing set up really easily.
It has everything you need to set it up, it comes with anchors and screws.
Overall, despite the fact that yes, it's a pretty light plastic and there's a pretty
affordable case and a mount, I at no point get the feeling that this is going to fall
off of my house.
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Gabe: Now that we've gone over the pros and cons and the design on the Wyze Cam Outdoor,
let's talk about its feature set, beginning with the video quality.
The Wyze Cam is bringing 1080p high-definition video, digital zoom, and a 110-degree field
of view, which is all pretty solid, especially for a camera that just costs $20.
What I was impressed by, is how well it did outdoors.
It was still able to pick things up quite well in that daytime vision, though I will
note that there was some glare depending on the sun's positioning.
When it comes to night vision, we didn't have these concerns.
I was really impressed with how well it picked me up going up and down my staircase.
It did that with just four infrared LEDs, so it's using that infrared vision, that night
vision to really give us a clear shot.
When it comes to notifications on your Wyze Cam, you have a lot of ability to really do
it exactly as you would like, a lot of customization options.
You can decide even what types of motions you want to be alerted on.
If I'm going to get a notification to my phone, I can decide do I want to get just people
notifications, do I want to get all other motion besides people?
Do I want to get sound detection, so if it hears the smoke alarm it can let me know?
Or do I just want two out of the three or all three?
You can decide for yourself.
Even when you decide that sensitivity for motion detection and sound detection, you
have between zero and a hundred, so you can really dial in exactly what you want to be
notified of.
Beyond that, in my case for example, I decided I only wanted to get motion detection inside
of the zone that is essentially my stoop and in front of my door.
Anything happening in the street, anything happening in the sky, I don't mind, I don't
care.
I only want to know what's happening right in front of my door and you can do that in
the mobile application with the motion detection zone.
If you want to access your footage on the Wyze Cam, there are a number of options for
you.
You get 14 days of cloud storage.
You're going to get 12-second clips anytime it detects motion.
They've actually updated this ability and for $1.49 a month, you can get what's called
a complete motion capture.
This will actually take the entire motion that's detected, and no matter how long that
lasts, it's going to retain it.
So you're not getting just elements of what's taking place, you're going to get the entire
clip.
For local storage, you actually get the ability to do things like continuous recording.
You can actually look back over time as to what has been picked up by your Wyze Cam.
You can even do time-lapse videos.
They have an official storage limit of 32 gigabytes, but even some of us here at SB
have put in much higher-capacity SD cards and not run into any problems.
You have a lot of different options for not only recording clips, but accessing them,
downloading them directly to your mobile device, and sharing them with others.
When it comes to smart platform integration, fortunately the Wyze Cam integrates with the
two largest on the market, Amazon and Google.
You can of course use your voice to control various elements of the Wyze Cam, but you
can even pitch the video from your Wyze Cam directly to your Amazon Fire TV, one of your
Amazon Echo show devices, or Google Chromecast or another Google assistant enabled device,
which gives you a lot of flexibility in where you see the footage from your Wyze Camera.
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Gabe: Now let's talk about the installation on your Wyze Cam and Mount Wall Mount and
cover.
Let's talk about the Wyze Cam itself first.
It's pretty easy.
You're going to want to take the Wyze app, download it to your phone, have your Wyze
Cam plugged into your wall, and from there it'll ask you essentially to put your mobile
device and the QR code that pops up during the "add device" element, and put it in front
of the lens.
Once it actually reads that, the two will pair, you'll put in your WiFi credentials,
and you're basically set when it comes to the Wyze Cam part.
Here, you also want to make sure you don't forget to go ahead and put in your micro SD
card if you want to get that local storage option.
Now you've put that in, you've made it nice and compact, and then you're going to take
the two pieces of the mount case and put them on the front and the back of the Wyze Cam
itself.
Your cord's going to come right through the hole found at the bottom.
Use the screwdriver that comes with the mount case and screw the two sides of the case together.
From there you will take the mount and you will thread it to the back of the case.
Now that you have that part right, you're going to want to go ahead and use the anchors
and the screws that come with your Mount Wall Mount and cover and decide where you'd like
to put it outside.
Once again, there's a couple elements to remember here.
You want to make sure that one, you may want to have it covered a bit so you're not going
to really have this thing hit directly by any of the elements despite this nice hood.
You also want to take into account the fact that the Wyze Cam only comes with a six-foot
cord initially, so you may want to use an outdoor extension cord or make sure it's somewhere
where it can be plugged in pretty easily.
That's it.
That's the entire installation process for your Wyze Cam Outdoor.
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Gabe: Now that we have everything installed, let's check out the Wyze Cam mobile application.
The Wyze Cam app allows you to do a ton.
Interface with the camera, motion tag, review events, all of that.
It's got a pretty solid rating, it's not the most excellent ratings we've seen from any
mobile application, but it does OK with a 3.5 in the Google Play store and a 3.4 in
the Apple App Store.
Let's go ahead and dive in on my iPhone 7 Plus.
Here I am inside of the Wyze mobile application, where I'm checking out the Outdoor Wyze Cam
that I've set up using the round wall cover and mount.
You see that it almost immediately starts working.
You see that that little box is pulled up, that's the motion tagging.
This is all happening live.
You can hear the cars going by and the sound is on.
If I clap and I sound, I can turn the sound off and just view it.
If I want to record, I can hit record and now you note that it's recording and you see
that it's turned into a stop button so I can just turn off the recording by hitting stop.
I wanted to speak to people outside I could do so with the microphone icon.
To the right of that you have the take photo icon and you can see a saving things that
I record in terms of video and the photos that I take in the album so it says save directly
to album.
Now if you tap more, you can actually toggle that motion tagging on and off.
You can decide to look at the album so you can look at a number of videos that have been
taken and you can even look at your time lapse or just turn the device off.
For whatever reason, you want to turn your Wyze Cam off, you can do so right there.
Below that, you see that you have the view playback option, which is something you use
when you have a SD card installed and wanted to see that continuous recording.
Now let's actually go and check out all the events that we've put into the cloud.
They go back and they go to events.
You see a number of events pop up.
Now you note that says complete motion.
That is a new feature that Wyze has added as a great service, is a pretty small fee
under two dollars.
You get the ability to capture the entire motion event.
Previously Wyze, if you weren't doing a live recording would only do 12 second clips.
Maybe all the good parts come after 12 seconds, maybe what's important, or actually helps
you to recognize someone happened beyond those 12 seconds.
They seem to have really figured out the solution for that by giving you that complete motion
ability.
You can get the complete motion you see here at 29-second clips, 18-second clips, 21-second
clips, and I can just watch whatever I'd like.
It's able to really just capture more of the moment.
Let's go ahead and jump back into the settings on the mount cam.
Here I am going and top right.
You see I can change the name of the cam, I want to.
I've named it mount cam, I think that's good enough.
I can decide what types of events I want to be recording, when I want to be recording.
There's points in the day which I like, "I don't care what happens in that period, I
don't want to record it."
I can actually change that in the schedule.
I can also decide how to detect motion or detect sound.
Now below that you'll see notifications.
In here you can decide what type of notifications you want to be sent directly to your mobile
device.
Do I only want to get people, do I want to get all motion?
Do I just want to get sound alerts sent to my phone.
When you go look at detection settings, you can decide how sensitive you want that motion
in sound settings to be.
I have it on low because I don't want every single thing to trigger the device, but what's
more important in this particular element.
It's almost hidden in this app is detection zone.
You see here I've set up a detection zone that is really only detecting motion as it
pertains to this small area in front of my door.
Exactly.
If it doesn't pass in front of this door, I don't really care what happened because
I don't want every single person going by like you can see here, there's a person going
by.
They actually don't even enter in terms of the motion detection zone because they're
just walking on the sidewalk.
They're not my problem.
If someone were to come up these steps, you'll note from the detection zone that I have here
on the screen, that I will be notified that they've done so.
That's a really useful element of the detection zone in the Wyze mobile application.
Now jumping back out have various alarm settings.
In New York it's pretty nice to be able to have that smoke alarm sound, a seal alarm
sound be detected by your Wyze Cam.
Finally you can jump into advanced settings gives you options in terms of your local storage,
your night vision, your timestamp things of that nature you want to look at your schedules
and automation.
All great.
That's the look at the Wyze Cam Outdoor in the Wyze mobile application.
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Gabe: Now let's answer some common questions about the Wyze Cam Outdoor.
Like, "Can Wyze Cam be used outdoors?"
Yes, the Wyze Cam can be used outdoors in conjunction with something like the mount
wall mount and cover.
Next is the Wyze Cam waterproof?
No, the Wyze Cam itself is definitely not waterproof but if you use it with something
like the Mount Wall Mount and cover you do get some weather resistance.
Finally, does the Wyze Cam have a battery and how long does it last?
No, the Wyze Cam does not have a battery, you must have it constantly plugged in.
Remember that the cord is only six feet long.
You may want to account for that when you're thinking about where to place it.
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Gabe: All right, we've gone over a lot today with the Wyze Cam outdoor.
You're wondering, "Gabe I'm not sure what can I use this for?
Who is this for?"
Let me answer that question for you.
Now, I think the Wyze Camera for someone who really wants to add to their overall Wyze
arsenal with something that can go outside.
Give you a little bit that outdoor capacity, a little bit of weather resistant.
I also think this is devices for the person who doesn't need the super camera to watch
the front porch.
They just want something that costs well under $50.
That's just the Wyze Cam and then Mount Wall Mount and covered combined.
It's going to make sure that they can keep an eye on what's going on with motion detection,
motion tagging, and the ability to see in the day and the night time and honestly it
works and a lot of conditions immediately been under freezing here in New York.
This thing has worked admirably, so it's definitely going to work in a number of conditions and
give you that little eye in the sky that we all want.
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Gabe: All right, so that's our look at the Wyze Cam Outdoor.
If you appreciate 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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