- All right guys,
Got a good one for you today.
I'm super excited to compare the EUFY Indoor 2K,
versus the amazing Wyze CamV2.
Let's go ahead and do it.
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♪ I'm only my eswe I'm a wreck ♪
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Welcome back friends.
If this is your first time here my name is Eric.
If you're into smart home, home automation
and especially HomeKit, you're definitely
in the right place.
Today's video is a part of my home kit series
or sort of kind of is.
The Eufy 2k Indoor is in HomeKit beta currently.
I'm part of that beta program,
and it's pretty awesome.
Unfortunately the Wyze cam does not have HomeKit,
but they've been looking into it.
But unfortunately with their current hardware situation
it's not gonna be able to be supported.
Hopefully in the next version it will be.
Now if you're not into Homekit, don't worry.
Most of this video is not gonna be talking
about HomeKit with Eufy.
I'm gonna be comparing other features that both
these cameras have in their app.
Now you might disagree with me, and that's okay.
I hope you'll let me know your thoughts
and opinions down in the comments below.
Now the Wyze cam when it came out it changed
the entire video security camera industry
with their unbelievable pricing.
And still to this day you can get this camera
for about 25, $26.
Now there's a lot of rumors saying its $20.
But guess what?
You cannot get this for $20.
They tack on that shipping and handling,
and processing no matter where you go.
And they still get you for that 25, $26, so anyways.
Even at that price this thing was a game changer.
It still is at $26.
When other cameras were charging 150, $200
for almost exactly the same thing.
But I gotta say watch out Wyze,
'cause there's some other companies right
on your heels, including the new Eufy Indoor 2k camera
which doesn't come in at $25.
It doesn't even come in at $30.
It comes in at $40.
Even at $40 I can get a bunch of these
around the house and not break the bank.
So watch out Wyze, 'cause it's a little bit more expensive.
$40 is not that much than your $26 camera.
All right next important thing after price is
the resolution or even better than resolution
just the quality of the video.
Yes this is 2K and this is 1080p.
But I've seen some 1080p cameras that look
better than a 2K camera.
I'm just gonna throw some footage up here.
(loud vacuum cleaner)
All right this is the night vision
for the Eufy cam which has eight infrared lights,
infrared lights, and this is the infrared cast
for the Wyze cam which has four infrared lights.
Now I'm about 10 feet away from the Eufy cam
and about 10 feet away for the Wyze.
And now about 15 feet away from the Eufy cam
and about 15 feet for the Wyze cam.
There is a different field of vision.
The field of vision on the Eufy is 125,
and I think the Wyze is 110.
So there is a major difference.
You can see more with the Eufy.
But to me, as you can see
from this footage, the Eufy is
definitely 1,000 times better.
All right, maybe not 1,000 but still better.
Next important feature is some storage.
Both of these have 24, seven recording locally
to a SD card.
Now Wyze does offer free cloud storage,
but it's very limited.
First of all, it is limited to 14 days
and is only 12 second clips
with a five minute cool down, meaning that if
someone comes in to the field of vision
and starts recording and sending it
to the cloud, it's only gonna send a 12 second clip
to the cloud, and it's not gonna send another clip
for another five minutes.
They do offer a paid program called
the complete motion capture which is a dollar 49.
And I've tested out and I gotta tell you it's pretty good.
It will take the complete motion capture
as long as motion is continuing
to be captured and send it up to the cloud.
So I think it is definitely worth a dollar 50.
It is a dollar 50 per camera,
so if you have 10 cameras it's gonna be what?
I think that's like $15 or so.
I would like to see some type of limit, like
once you hit like 10 cameras it'd be $10 a month
or give you some discount after a certain number of cameras.
Unfortunately they haven't put out that plan
where on the other hand the Eufy also has
a 24, seven recording to the SD card.
And when it comes to the cloud storage
I am able to go back as far as I have had this camera
which is about two weeks and is unlimited clips.
As long as motion is recording this thing is going
to be sending to the web.
And finally in the editing of this video
I did find the subscription service plan has been announced
in the web portal where you can see
the basic plan for one camera will be two 99 per month
where it does have a rolling 30 day of video history.
You can also do a $30 per year
for that one camera or you can do up to 10 cameras
for $10 a month or a hundred dollars a year.
What I can tell you
about the cloud storage as I've been testing this
out is that it is unlimited motion getting sent
to the cloud with only a 30 second cool down.
I gotta tell you that is awesome.
Hopefully they will continue
with that 30 second cool down with unlimited clips
to the cloud, but unfortunately I'm not able
to confirm what the cloud storage is gonna have.
Now personally when I bought this camera I had no intention
to use the cloud storage from Eufy.
I'm actually gonna be using
the HomeKit secure video service.
Now that is in beta which I'll talk more about later.
But I'm already paying for that service.
So really there's no reason to use both services.
Actually HomeKit secure
video does not allow two cloud services.
So I'm gonna be using the one just from HomeKit.
In addition you can still continue using the SD card.
So not only is it backing up clips
to HomeKit secure video, has a 24, seven recording right
there on the SD card.
Also in the near future I'm gonna be testing
out the RTS feed with the (mumbles) storage.
I'm not quite sure if that's gonna be able
to work with HomeKit secure video.
But I will let you know in the near future.
If you're interested, let me know down in the comments,
and I'll make sure I do a video on it.
On the other hand, even though the Eufy has the RTS feed
capabilities the Wyze cam also has the RTS pro call.
Unfortunately if you do choose
to use that and change the firm ware,
you're not gonna get any more firm ware updates.
You can go back to the normal firm ware.
But if you want to use that RTS feed, you have
to be stuck on that old firm ware.
And you're not gonna get any new updates.
So when it comes to storage I gotta give it to Eufy.
Yes the Wyze cam has a lot of options also,
but I gotta admit that I'm really impressed that there's
so many more options with the Eufy.
But once again I bought the Eufy cam
to work with HomeKit's secure video.
And I've been beta testing it.
And I gotta tell you it is awesome.
Next up is the sound.
I gotta tell you when Wyze first came
out with their version two it was a major improvement
over their first version, both
in sound quality and mic quality.
But testing this bad boy out wow.
This is a sound test of the Wyze cam.
This is just a test of the Wyze.
And this is the test of the Eufy cam.
How do I sound?
This is only a test.
And this is the mic test of the Wyze cam.
How do I sound?
This is only a test.
And now we're moving over to the Eufy cam.
This is a mic test for a Eufy cam.
How do I sound?
In addition the Eufy has a alarm.
You can manually set that alarm off.
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In addition, there is a setting
to have that alarm go off if it sees movement.
Personally I'm not gonna be using that.
But it's still pretty cool to have.
Next up is a very important feature
or benefit and that is the notification speed.
I've noticed with some of these cameras
it receive movement or get an alert on sound.
And it'd take 30 seconds to be able to see what's going on.
And I just don't think that's right.
So I've noticed in my testing
with the Wyze cam it's definitely getting better
over time, but unfortunately
the Eufy beats it out once again.
And I gotta tell you this thing is super duper fast.
This thing will load.
Once you get that notification it loads
within like one to two seconds.
And the Eufy beat out the Wyze cam every single time
in all my testings, during the day, at night.
All the time the Eufy got the notification
out to me and was able to load way before the Wyze.
Now next up is AI which I think is
a very important feature to have.
Personally I don't have a huge benefit in it,
but I know a lot of people do.
So I'm gonna point this out to you guys.
They both have AI.
Wyze cam had a deal with another company a couple years ago,
and unfortunately the deal fell apart or something happened.
I think that got bought out by Apple,
and they had to drop their contract.
But most recently Wyze came out with their own AI.
It's been pretty good.
It can identify humans.
It'll let me know that it's seeing a human being,
and that's pretty much it.
Whereas the Eufy cam has human detection that works
fairly well, and it also has pet and facial recognition.
But unfortunately those two haven't worked
on my camera just yet.
But hopefully those will work in the near future.
Now both of these cameras have motion detection.
They both also have some type of activity zone
or detection zone, so they can identify
specific zones that you
only wanna get notified of movement into that zone.
You're limited to two zones with the Eufy cam.
And with the Wyze camera you're limited
to one detection zone.
Also on the Wyze cam I really like how it identifies
or puts a box around the motion.
The Eufy cam has nothing like that.
So you're always looking for that little motion,
if you can't see it right
away where Wyze points out that motion
and makes it a lot easier.
So I gotta give that one to Wyze.
Another nice feature that Eufy has is called pet command.
This is very similar to their motion detection setting
where you can identify a certain area, say
for instance like a couch.
And if a pet jumps onto the couch
and triggers that motion detection area,
it will sound a pre-recorded message
which I think is very, very cool.
No, no get off the couch.
Plus it's a lot easier to find what you're looking for
in the Eufy app.
It actually mark all the motion with a yellow line,
and you can go to that one timeframe
and see what is going on.
Now you can't really scrub
as you're going back-and-forth in the timeline.
But at least they mark the motion,
whereas Wyze they don't mark anything that's going
on in the timeline.
The only way you know that there is motion is they have
to go to a different window where you see the events, get
the timeframe, and then go back to the timeline
and look to see the entire video.
And it's just a hassle.
Plus Wyze does not have a web portal where you can access
your cameras via a web browser,
where Eufy does even though you are limited
to one livestream playing at a time.
Even though you can see all your cameras
you can only play one.
And then in events you can see thumbnails of the events,
but for some reason I can't get the videos to play.
So hopefully they will fix that in the near future.
And last but not least is the integrations or
platforms that these work with.
Both of these work with LadyA and Google.
So if you do have something like the Echo Show 5,
you can ask LadyA to pull up your video feed.
And you can see that.
But Wyze does not have which Eufy will be having.
I'm actually in the beta program for HomeKit
and HomeKit secure video.
And I gotta tell you if you're Apple lover
or Apple user, if you have a phone
or if you're a HomeKit user, hands down spend
the extra $15 and get the Eufy cam.
Gotta tell you this thing is awesome.
You're not gonna find another HomeKit secure
video camera for anything cheaper.
It is super fast.
As soon as you're making a movement
in the camera it shows up on the screen.
You can't even notice a difference.
It is like split seconds.
And HomeKit secure video, awesome, awesome, awesome.
And that is the main reason I'm gonna be buying
a bunch of these Eufy 2K Indoor cameras.
In addition they also have a pan
and tilt version, just like the Wyze has their pan and tilt.
So if you guys wanna see a comparison of those, let
me know down in the comments below.
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Thanks for watching.
See you next time.
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