Wyze’s new solar-powered pan-and-tilt security camera is less than $80

The Solar Cam Pan tin beryllium controlled remotely oregon usage AI to way the question of a idiosyncratic successful your yard. | Image: Wyze

Wyze has announced its archetypal battery-powered, solar-charged, 2K information camera that tin rotate and tilt, providing sum of your full yard. The Wyze Solar Cam Pan is disposable present done Wyze’s online store for $79.98, making it cheaper than competitors’ offerings similar Reolink’s $88 2K pan-and-tilt information camera, Tapo’s $170 4K VistaCam 360 that launched earlier this year, and the $160 3K Eufy Security SoloCam S340.

Wyze says the Solar Cam Pan’s high-efficiency star sheet tin support it moving continuously with conscionable an hr of vulnerability to sunlight each day. The institution hasn’t shared details astir however agelong it volition tally connected artillery powerfulness unsocial should the upwind crook cloudy for a while, oregon however overmuch artillery beingness volition beryllium reduced if the 360-degree pan, 70-degree tilt mechanics is utilized extensively.

The camera tin beryllium controlled remotely utilizing Wyze’s mobile app, but it besides leverages AI to observe radical and determination the camera automatically to way their movements crossed your property. The Solar Cam Pan tin grounds astatine nighttime utilizing an IR airy to illuminate subjects successful low-light conditions, and it tin treble arsenic a deterrent to pursuit radical and animals distant utilizing a tiny motion-activated LED spotlight and a siren. But it’s not designed to beryllium utilized arsenic a floodlight.

The Solar Cam Pan comes with an IP65 h2o absorption rating, which means you’re not constricted to installing it wherever it’s protected against the elements. It supports two-way audio utilizing the Wyze mobile app and offers astute location integrations with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT. Continuous section signaling is an enactment but you’ll astir apt privation to upgrade the camera’s interior retention utilizing an optional microSD paper up to 512GB successful size.

You tin besides link the Solar Cam Pan to Wyze’s unreality retention with subscription plans that scope successful price from $2.99 per period to $19.99 per period — if you’re comfy utilizing the company’s connected features. Last twelvemonth Wyze had a serious information breach that affected thousands of customers pursuing vulnerabilities successful now-discontinued products that the institution hadn’t disclosed for years. Wyze has since been working to amended its information practices to regain the spot of consumers.