Most efficient ⛅ solar panel // EUFY SOLOCAM S340 security cam (Full Review)

The Eufy Solocam S340 is one step closer to the ideal solar-powered security camera ever. The fact that this gimballed cam has one of the most efficient solar panel tech (even when it's cloudy out) definitely helps.

(Note: At 5:47 and 6:01 I failed to state the distance I was standing away from the S340. It's ~40' and ~30' respectively.)

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SHORTCUTS 👇
0:00 Yadda yadda
1:16 Quick Specs
2:03 Close-up
3:14 App run-through
5:16 Positives / Likes
7:46 Neutral stuff
9:38 Negatives / Dislikes
10:41 Installation w/ notes and observations
15:50 Negatives (cont'd)
17:46 Last Words / Score
18:27 Outro

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[NSmotomania]

Good evening I have bought this solar camera and after three months it stopped charging the solar panel. A lot of people have the same problem and have bought this particular camera. I will buy another panel it is a shame because it is an expensive camera to create problems so early. And imagine I live in the country that has bright light and a long summer than all the countries of Europe, Greece.

[philipm.]

I literally walked by a house this morning and saw the solar panel and camera and had no idea what it was😛
Thanks for enlightening me. It's a great concept 🙂

[havivelbaz]

Solo cam S340, is a standalone camera, that connects directly to my home's WiFi router.
And that's is what awesome for me because of the size of my house and my mesh system spred out.

But... And that is what I don't know..
What happens afterwards when I'll plug in the home base 3. (For obvious reasons of more storage then the internal 8gb)
Will the transmission from the cameras to my home wifi system will change to the homebase?

If so, that is bad for me, my layout of the the house and the location of one on the routers (that the homebase will wire to) will not pickup signal form at least 2 of my 3 cameras setup.

So before I buy the homebase 3, can you help me ? I didn't see any of this info out there.

[jonathonbatkin]

Thanks for the review, nice points raised for and against. I ordered one as it seems to meet my needs

[inad]

Regarding motion detection, will it detect objects coming at it from any direction (360º), then point the camera at them? Or do they need to be within the camera's 135º field of view for the camera to start tracking them?

[allencornwall]

I am looking to get one for our camp in Maine so it was refreshing to hear a review that was in Maine given that it is solar powered.

[asan]

GearUP with Aaron Thanks for posting this video.

[timgile]

Can an addition camera be added to system later?

[hycron]

Hmmm.. can you tilt* the camera up when zoomed in 3x? Also the controls looked really unresponsive.

[paulwinkelmolen]

Hi, I'm also using this S340 solocam for a few weeks now. It's working is fine, but I think the solar panel is not working suffient because my battery looks like its draining (below 75% now and no signs of charging in the dashboard whatsoever). My setup is just like yours with the panel in early morning sunlight, the power source is external solar panel. Got some insights for me to possibly solve my power problem? [PS: when I set the power source to battery, what is the use of the solar panel right then? Does it charge the battery or somethink like that?]

[beduinalbanczyk]

Are they can recording 24h when they wired ?

[MK-sldj]

BEWARE: Had both since 11/2023. The last downloaded update on the S340 they intentionally removed some Features including Pet motion detection and cut motion detection range in half. Both without notice and just confirmed by customer support that this deletion of service was intended. How can they do this?!?!
ALSO: they've cut the onboard memory S380 in half from 16gb to 8 gb!!
This is all unacceptable!!

[edwardrogers-wright]

Can camera connect to home base without wifi?

[joetakasu]

The solar is garbage doesn't charge enough the camera.. you have to buy more watts aftermarket solar