EZVIZ 2025 Solar Camera Wireless, 24/7 Recording HD, CCTV Camera Outdoor, Human Vehicle Detection, Colour Night Vision, 2-Way Audio, cctv, solar camera(CB3)

Excellent

Works perfectly but solar is now not keeping working as summer is over.

Ok so I've taken my time in testing these cheap battery cameras and came across a few issues that may change your mind buying one.I'll start with the good stuff.The camera picture quality is really good, it has a nice wide angle lens. It records to the SD card (free) and cloud (subscription). It's advertises a 110 battery life with it's typical certain amount of uses per day. The pir is really good and has the odd flase hit. Infrared is also very good and excellent night vision picture or colour.Ok here's the bits will either make or break future purchases.The camera bracket is absolutely useless, you cannot angle the camera at a side angle, its poorly designed. It's a screwed plastic cover with a rubber insert to keep the bracket in place, if you tighten too much it just over tightens and slips and this doesn't give you a sturdy mount.In the app you cannot download off the SD card footage it's captured to your device, you have to play the video back and record the screen. You can only download and save to your device using the subscription service. These cameras are being mis-sold as the SD card function is totally useless as you cannot use on your own pc as the files are encrypted.Ok your thinking that's not an issue I'll take the SD card out and play it back on my computer, no you cannot do that either, the footage will not playback on a computer.The PC software is awful, it's simply terrible to work. Nothing works like they say it works, the LAN connected cameras don't work, I believe this is too stop you downloading the footage as everything is encrypted. You don't actually own the SD card footage either.Battery life, ok it's pretty good to be fair in normal circumstances.WIFI connection, now this will still record if you don't have a WiFi connection but and this is a big but, this will kill your battery in 1 day flat. I think this is a firmware issue that the camera is looking all the time for a WiFi connection when it don't have one and it's killing the battery.Solar panel, I do not have the original micro usb solar panel, but I do have a reolink micro usb solar panel, same connection but it will not charge the camera from this other source. I'm not sure if they have some kind of protection on the port to stop other solar panels working.I'm not sure if they plan to change any of the issues I've raised. The biggest one for me is the non WiFi draining the battery life.I did buy x3 of these and would NOT buy them again.It's pretty clear once you buy these cameras that they are subscription based only, but only after you do some research. I feel liked I've been conned.

Good image quality, I didn't expect the battery to last but the supplied solar panel has kept it topped up at 99% all summer. Not sure how it will do over the darker months but very impressed so far

Nice camera feels very high quality and well made.Still using micro usb port for charging. It being used on my shed, Although it is waterproof , it collects water droplet on the lens and blurs the quality of the picture. Not sure about use in wet weather.

Easy to set up, easy to fit, very clear picture

Easy to put up outside my houseOne installed & set up on our phones it’s really easy to use & view previous activity.I have just ordered a second one for the rear of our home. The battery lasts a few weeks.Would definitely recommend this.

Unfortunately after complete failure of both CB3 cameras bought last year, I decided it is time to share some of my bad experiences...Poor quality, customer service practically non existent.Bought two of these last July (2024).First problem encountered was with poor WiFi connection not only on CB3 but also on CB8.Sorted the wifi by fitting an extender literally nex to the cameras...!!!.The second issue encountered -battery life- one camera was fitted with solar panel another without...The one with solar panel wal alive for 6 months and was killed by the water ingress???The one wit no solar panel was taken out after a month as the battery went low , was replaced with BC1C and stored away in its box . When needed to replace the first camera that had water ingress it lasted less than 2 days and went off, never started again.The third issue across the whole range of cameras in my setup (CB8, BC1C and C3 ) is the reliability as a CCTV system in general as detections are random, the units are going offline randomly and only God knows when and why and the detection zones setting doesn't correspond to the real shooting...So as things stand I ended up with two of these failing miserably in less than 7months, and there is no way Amazon or Ezviz will be willing to help...The other two are still working but just...And I am looking forward to move the whole setup to another brand hoping the reliability will be better...Technically speaking the cameras are under 1 year old and should be covered by some sort of warranty but I can't see this happening...Disappointed is the one word about my experience...