Wyze’s New Security Camera Watches Your Yard From Inside Your Home

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

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

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

The included equine uses a ample achromatic bezel to minimize glare from indoor lighting. While nan camera is attached utilizing generic hook-and-loop fastener, nan 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 later determine to reposition nan mount.

A 10-foot agelong microUSB cablegram is included for connecting nan 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 expertise to grounds audio of extracurricular events will beryllium little effective down a model than pinch a information camera mounted extracurricular your home.

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

You tin besides usage nan Window Cam pinch Wyze’s unreality retention that’s disposable done subscription plans ranging successful value from $2.99/month to $19.99/month, if you’re comfortable pinch nan 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 grounded to disclose vulnerabilities successful now-discontinued products that could person theoretically fto hackers entree video feeds complete nan internet.