Chris here and in this video i'm taking a look at Eufy security's solo cam s40 it is a 2k security
camera completely wireless super easy to set up so it runs on solar panel and a built-in battery
it also does have an ip67 weatherproof rating two-way communication via a built-in microphone
and loudspeaker and it does have a 600 lumens spotlight the camera can just record humans as
it does have ai to only pick up and just start to record humans instead of your pets animals or cars
driving by in the street and to point out that this is a sponsored video from me so it's not a
review i'll just be unboxing this a little bit of setup and show you some sample footage here is the
solo cam s40 i'll go over the design and the build quality of that shortly you'll find under here we
then have a bit of paperwork that's inside this little pouch now they include a quick start guide
there we go and you get this a sticker so 247 monitoring by uf security and this is
just a little question card there and camera mounting screw positioning card there for us
and he will find the base for it so this is how to mount it and they've included
here a cable so it uses type c you can fully charge it up first which does take a few hours
but that way you know that the battery is full and it's going to be working straight away for you
so we've got our screws there and this here is the base that it will screw into
so you screw it onto the back there and that is where you mount it this is made out of metal the
bracket build quality of the solo cam s40 here is very good so it has this abs style plastic
around it and very good finish to it and it's quite a small compact size as you can see now
it has an ip67 weather resistance rating there's this little rubber gasket that goes over where
the button is here so you use that to sync it up with the application first and then it will
connect up to your 2.5 g wireless so that's the mountain point right there to mount it of course
uh with that bracket i showed you before that's just part of it that you screw onto the back there
and you can adjust the angle you want it but i'll show you that when i install it type c right there
for charging it so it does take a few hours to initially first charge it the battery will last
up to four months and then the solar panel on the top that is of course going to be powering
it during the day when it is in the sun and then when the sun goes down of course it continues on
with the battery and the solar panel will top up that battery too in turn so on the other side you
just got the 2k uf security there again down the bottom here is our loudspeaker so with the camera
there's a microphone there and with that loudspeaker you can have two-way communication
we do have an ambient light sensor around the sides here so either side is where we're going
to have that 600 lumen spotlight and then the 2k camera right there with a 140 degree field of view
so i found my mounting point which is ideal is going to be pointing at the front door here so
i can monitor anyone that comes to the front door rings delivery drivers etc and it should be about
two to three meters the height of it which this is approximately two meters or slightly over
and in the sun that's important so you want it to get of course the sunlight
so it can run off solar power and later slowly charge up that battery when needed
and i do have my cat here vera who's going to be supervising and helping me with this job
and for this job i need to hunt and find my masonry drill bit and use of course this which
is the hammer drill mode so i've got my three holes there and was very easy to do because this
is a very soft material that this brick is made out of so it wasn't that hard and just a minute
now i'm screwing this bracket into place and then mounting the camera that's now done so i just need
to screw in now the end of the mount there and the camera itself onto the end here and find the
optimal angle for the viewing distance but also an angle that is going to get the sun of course
which for me is about here that way it's still getting plenty of sun there and there's nothing
that's covering it and i do get a good view of the front gate here and a little bit of the street and
here is our application this is called uv security so you get it from ios the app store and then
a google play store as well which i'm running right here is the android version so it's very
straightforward easy to use and right here you can see that i've got the different cameras so there's
another one here that i currently have so any other uv cameras you've got will be listed here
we've got the devices which is the current view events which records the little clips it sends you
the notifications as well and you can see all of that security and you can tap this to go into the
live view so tapping in the middle there i can now have a look at that front camera i can currently
hear audio from the microphone i can hear birds chirping away and you've got these options here
so you can record a video clip you can see the connection speed we've got the speaker and tap
and hold i can then talk to whoever is on the other side if someone happened to be waiting there
at the front gate so it is straightforward and i just show you the settings we do have now there's
quite a lot so i won't go into everything you can see there the solo cam s40 battery life and
this would actually show charging if the sun was out but it's not at the moment it's starting well
sunset right now so you've got an option there to disable the led i keep it off i don't think
it needs to be on all the time the watermark night vision modes there too so you've got color vision
mode or the infrared black and white if you wanted that our spotlight settings so it does have that
600 lumens light then you can adjust the white balance of those leds either side of it and the
brightness which is handy motion detection so i've got it set to humans only that's what i
prefer otherwise it's going to be recording a lot of clips of people's cars going past or just a
stray dog or a cat walking around on my own cat so that's why i keep it just onto humans but you can
adjust the sensitivity of it and all of that right there even including activity zones with it power
management so normally you'd keep it on optimal battery life which is just a 20 second clip but i
have it set to 60 that's because i was recording this video here and i probably put it on to 20
later on but it gets plenty of sun so i don't think i'm going to run into any problems with
the battery life which by the way should last for up to about four months or so that battery so it's
very good now you got other settings in here like the audio settings notifications video quality
i keep that on high there i just want the best quality of course i think most people probably
have that on high and the storage so local storage and it is eight gigabytes and it will take a
very long time to full up with only just those short clips that it's taking of any activity
when it does detect humans that is the way i currently have it configured right here so you
can see that we've got a few other different options in there so i won't go into those
it's pretty straightforward it has a very clear mounting guide too by the way which was very handy
and the setup of this whole camera here solar camera and i just go now to show you the events so
it records when it saw someone out the front of my place here you can see that there is a car there
someone getting into a car and i can even hear the audio so if i did end up wanting to keep this clip
then i simply need to just tap here to download it you can share it as well or delete it but
it will rotate the video so eventually once the memory it starts to fill up it will then
start overriding the very old clips there so you don't have to go through deleting everything you
can see all of those events over the day a lot of the time i've been triggering it off myself
which is that camera that i just installed and then the other one i have in my front yard so
it's a very straightforward app and you use the application also here to get firmware updates
and what can we expect quality wires out of it so this footage right now
is of course been recorded on the solo cam s40 and the microphone that is the one that's built into
it remember it does have a loudspeaker so you can have two-way conversations imagine a alert is on
your mobile phone that someone's at your gate or your front door you can talk to them through that
with the speaker and the microphone so i've got it set up to detect only humans and start recording
the clips so any cat or dog or even a car that goes past here will not be triggering it and it
won't be recording recording that so it's using ai to detect human faces and that is when it starts
to record so let's have a look now at low light performance on the solo cam s40 i have the colored
night vision mode enabled that's why it doesn't look just the black and white you'd normally see
with just the infrared mode which is an option we can use to save on batteries so if you don't want
the battery to drain down using the night mode with 600 lumen lights you can use that instead
now those lights 600 lumens leds you can adjust the color on you can see actually doing a pretty
good job here of lighting up the surrounding area in fact much better than i thought they would
now it was very easy to set up the solar cam s40 it is simply just three screws you mount it
get into the position and you can look at the live view with the app and to find out the perfect kind
of angle there for it so really this only needs three things and that is a good position that has
sun and then you don't want to be somewhere where it's not going to get enough sunlight
eventually that battery will finally uh run out after quite a few months of recording because
it's not able to top itself up and then you need to be in the range of your wi-fi router
so that might be a difficult one for some people who want to put this say
quite a way away from your house and your wireless might be able to make it there i'm lucky because
i've got a powerful wi-fi router and a zeus one that makes it well just beyond my actual gate
so not a problem in fact it's showing that i've got full signal strength there which is good
so very handy features built into it i like the fact that it can detect just humans only record
human traffic so when a delivery driver comes or anyone comes to that front door it will alert me
if you do want the notification that is you don't have to have them of course it will record that it
won't be recording cats walking past the front or dogs or cars traffic going past all the time
it would constantly be recording so that would be very annoying and i haven't had any problems
with it accidentally recording cars or anything with that ai tracking feature on that is two-way
communication i can see that sometimes being handy if there is someone there and i get an alert and
perhaps a courier driver calls me or something you can simply tell them hey can you pop the package
if it's not something that's going to be damaged just throw it over the fence or drop it over there
over the gate there for me then they could do that and the footage itself seems pretty standard for
your security camera footage although being a 2k resolution it is a lot sharper than some of
the other models out there and a lot of them are only of course 1080p and not quite as good
low light footage is as expected and it is great that it does have the 600 lumen light built into
it to help light everything right up there so there we go that is a ufe securities solo cam
s40 thank you so much for watching this video from me i do hope to see you back in the next one