Wyze’s new security camera watches your yard from inside your home

Wyze’s Window Cam keeps an oculus connected your spot from the comfortableness of indoors. | Image: Wyze

Wyze has announced an unorthodox attack to outdoor information cameras with its caller Window Cam that monitors your gait and spot from wrong your home. This Rear Window attack to information means the camera doesn’t request batteries, Wi-Fi scope extenders, entree to an exterior powerfulness outlet, oregon weatherproofing. The institution already offers model mounts for its indoor information cameras, but the Wyze Window Cam is purpose-built for the task with infrared and LED lighting wholly removed to trim glare and reflections. It’s available present from Wyze’s online store for $34.98.

The Window Cam features a 1080P HD sensor paired with a lens offering a 101-degree horizontal tract of presumption that’s constricted to 53.9 degrees vertically. It besides features “enhanced colour nighttime vision,” according to Wyze, that takes vantage of a wide f/1.0 aperture to seizure colour footage with minimal ambient light.

The included equine uses a ample achromatic bezel to minimize glare from indoor lighting. While the camera is attached utilizing generic hook-and-loop fastener, the equine itself adheres to a model utilizing an adhesive sticker. The sticker isn’t designed to beryllium reused(you’ll really request a hairsbreadth dryer and a scraper to region it), but Wyze includes 2 of them if you aboriginal determine to reposition the mount.

A 10-foot agelong microUSB cablegram is included for connecting the Window Cam to power, but you’ll request to supply your ain microSD card, up to 512GB successful capacity, if you opt for unafraid 24/7 section recording. The camera does person a built-in microphone and speaker, but its two-way connection capabilities and quality to grounds audio of extracurricular events volition beryllium little effectual down a model than with a information camera mounted extracurricular your home.

The Window Cam offers question detection alerts that tin see AI-generated descriptions of what’s seen if you subscribe to the company’s $19.99/month oregon $199.99/year Cam Unlimited Pro service.

You tin besides usage the Window Cam with Wyze’s unreality retention that’s disposable done subscription plans ranging successful terms from $2.99/month to $19.99/month, if you’re comfy with the company’s caller efforts to amended its information practices. Wyze had a serious information breach past year that fto thousands of customers concisely spot into different people’s homes, and earlier that, it failed to disclose vulnerabilities successful now-discontinued products that could person theoretically fto hackers entree video feeds implicit the internet.