hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my one year follow-up review of the eufy Smart Box
that's right I did a full review of this already over there in the corner but I only had it for a
few months now I have been utilizing this smart drop box for well over a year you're here to
find out well after a full year how has it held up what are the things that I like what are the
things that I dislike so let's get that started after a full year of actual use for me I live
in the Northeast so this has experienced a full season of snow this has experienced a full summer
season so it's been rained on it's been snowed on and I will say the actual construction of
this the material has withstood all the elements the only thing that I had found was on top the
sticker that was there because I probably adhered it during the colder season ice water got under
there the sticker came off so I do kind of wish that they had that painted on the top kind of
like they have delivery painted on the front here but that is a small gray because you could always
spray paint something on there for yourself if you wanted coming to our smart features of these smart
box here camera I still stand behind I'm not 100 on the angle it does allow you to see the
face more clearly if people were putting things in the Box because it's angled up but if you're
like me and you're in an area that has snow snow can accumulate on the camera lens so do not get
this as your primary means of keeping track of people at your front door ideally you can get a
camera which eufy also sells review over there in the corner for the one that I recommend and
that'll do you better than relying solely on this as a means of surveilling your home it is a nice
add-on for the Smart Box but would not rely on this solely our number pad over here works great
love the fact that they light up can't really see it right here but at night you can see it if you
tap on it there are several different modes of operation as I talked about in the full review
allowing you to either have easy mode just push the button lid will open anybody can get in and
out switch mode only one person can open it put something in then it will require the master pin
to get in or having a pin code for every delivery type that you can think of even for your neighbors
I have found for my personal use based on where I am and the abilities of my mail carriers I do
the switch mode they have the ability to open it up and I can come in afterwards and put the pin
in that's the one that's worked out best for me and that's gonna depend on your particular
mail carriers what I have found actually is there are specific companies that will use the box over
others so let me let me give you a quick Montage of my experiences with this over the past year
foreign
oh enter the pin code on the address label and press open
enter the pin code on the address label and press open
oh somebody in our hands like things
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button to make a delivery
thank you so as you can see there's two companies that really don't utilizing the Smart Box the
other ones will give it a shot and the one company depending on who it is will attempt to utilize the
Box my normal mail carrier has gotten really used to using the Smart Box so if anything is
a large package they will put that in here I have turned off the motion sense which is the
hey please put a package into the delivery box only because my neighbors had asked me to stop
because it was still picking them up and my mail carrier actually asked me what happened to the box
if it wasn't working because it stopped doing that and I just let him know no I turned that
particular feature off now speaking of my normal mail carrier I did find one small gripe with this
and that is if you're not running this off of power and you are using the internal battery
when you first get a warning saying that the battery needs to be charged charge the battery
because again especially in Colder Weather your window to act actually get the battery
out of here using the PIN code and not having to rely on the key is small and that charging
of the battery is going to take you four hours roughly you have to plan when you're going to
take the battery out of this because if you're charging the battery in the middle of the day
and your mail carrier comes and tries to put a package in your box here and there's no power
to it they're not getting in here that is the beauty of having a smart device in that you can
remotely open this and talk to the mail carrier if they don't know how to work it but if there's
no battery in it this is just an empty box that nobody can get into except for you without the
key so you're going to have to plan around when you're charging this if you're going to utilize
it with the battery generally what I'll do is my mail carrier I won't get anything after eight
o'clock I'll pull the battery in charge it well I'm not expecting anything and then right before
going to bed stick the battery back out in the box and then I'll be good for the next day one
last thing that I think the ufe Box could do a little better and that is when the Box
is actually open because the lid is not automated to close it just will pop open
I stand behind eufy putting something on the lid itself saying hey please close the box when done
or if you have the prompts set up with the Box saying hey please close the lid I wish that would
happen a little quicker by the time the person drops it takes the picture that they delivered
it and runs away the lid might still be open and then it will say please close the Box either put
something on the lid yourself or eufy in a software update please make it so that this
can say it a little quicker now while I did say I would not rely on this for my home surveillance
needs you do have the ability to have both cloud or local storage now the local storage is going to
utilize eufy's home base system the Box itself does not come with one and I'm not saying that
it's an oversight because you are getting this primarily to be a smart box but if you want to
have those camera feeds and not have to pay a subscription for cloud service having a bundle
that has the home base would be a nice option but if you've already bought into the ufe ecosystem
and have several options like I do playlist over there in the corner you probably have a home base
already that you can connect this to which in that case is not terrible it's a nice add-on but just
know if you don't have a home base you're going to be relying on cloud storage or live feed only
and that's just a small small thought process with this overall as I was mentioning construction of
this has held up to the elements very well there's a little weathering here and there in color and
dripping but the inside even the inside which has water get into it because it can the lip around
the front here it's going to get water in it and it's going to drip in there's those holes at the
bottom help keep it from freezing or collecting water which is really great but all areas of this
have held up wonderfully over the course of the year so your question is it still worth getting
I am very happy that I have this smart delivery box even with the mixed use for my mail carriers
it gives me peace of mind knowing that if I have a high value item I got a 95 chance in my local area
that it'll make it into the box and I don't have to worry about it so for me I'm very happy that I
have this if I was to do it again I definitely would pick one up for myself so hopefully this
year look back at the eufy Smart delivery box has helped confirm to you not only will it hold
up over time but you're going to check out the full review I did of this over in the corner to
make sure you know all the features if this is the first video that you happen to be seeing with that
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