Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great little camera love the fact I don't need a contract

I got the eufy spotlight camera to mount next to the garage to watch over the driveway. I previously had another camera mounted there but wanted something with a spotlight also. My previous camera wasn't solar-powered and in its first location (watching the front porch), the battery lasted about 6 months before needing a charge. However, moving it to such a high traffic spot caused it to constantly record and need to be charged monthly. A huge plus for the eufy spotlight camera is that it is solar-powered. I fully charged it inside using the USB-C cable before installation. After installation, it rained for two days. As soon as the sun came out it started charging. I will note that the sun wasn't even directly hitting and it was already charging. I checked it again tonight and the battery is still at 100%. You can see in the app that it is charging. Another pro is that you can set it to only alert you for humans, instead of animals. I can back my car out of the garage and leave and it doesn't record it. For me, that's exactly what I want. There's no point in having tons of stored videos of cars coming and going. However, as soon as you walk through its path it will record. As far as the spotlight, it is very bright. Something that I didn't realize when I got it was that the light is customizable. You can go from brightness 1-100. You can also change the color temperature from warm (more yellow) to cool (white light). For brightness, I use the cool setting at 100% (600 lumens). There are two options for night vision. You can have black and white using the IR LEDs, which looks good, but a little grainy. The second option is for color night vision. This option turns on the spotlight when motion is detected. I used the IR lights for a couple of nights and then the spotlight. I prefer the spotlight option as you get better image quality and a light if you need to go out at night. You can also use the built-in microphone to talk through it. I tested this and the quality was clear and loud. So far I have 100 events recorded and it has used 376MB out of 7.3GB of the internal storage. You can download recordings from the app and erase the ones you don't need. You can prioritize between optimal battery life, optimal surveillance, or customize between the two. You can also set activity zones to monitor. The eufy spotlight cam gives you two. Every other camera that I have had only gives you one. This is perfect for me since the camera is facing a road. I simply set the activity zone below the line of the road so that people walking down the road won't trigger it. When it captures a video, it also takes a screenshot of the best picture of the person's face. Just below the recording, you will see the face of the person that it recorded. Click that and you have the best still shot of that person. That's a nice feature. If you're watching it live, there is also a siren button. It works well and is quite loud. Overall, there has been very little lag between an event triggering and me getting the notification. For example, my eufy doorbell cam notifies me after the UPS guy is halfway back to his truck after hitting the doorbell. The spotlight cam is nearly instant. There are a couple of drawbacks to the eufy spotlight cam for me. First, it is designed to be on the 2.4GHz frequency of your WiFi. Since I have both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands coming from the router, the eufy spotlight cam wouldn't connect to my WiFi. I had to create a separate guest network that was only running the 2.4GHz band to connect the spotlight cam to. I didn't have to do this with my eufy doorbell camera. It connected automatically with no issue. Another huge issue (and they tell you this in the setup guide) is that people walking directly towards the camera may not be seen. They need to cross the path of the camera for it to realize they are there and record. It has a big blind spot directly ahead of it. I tested this by walking straight at the camera from outside the activity zone. It didn't realize that I was a person that it should be recording until I was just a few feet from it. Basically, once someone figures out this flaw, they can easily defeat it and it becomes useless. They could just slowly walk directly towards it, duck down below it and it wouldn't capture anything. That's a big oversight for something that is supposed to be a security camera. Overall, however, it is a great spotlight camera that you (in theory) never have to charge.

Poor zoom, reacts late to passers-by. I am not happy with the product.

I use it to provide added security for my home. I especially like the built-in light that can be controlled from your phone.

Nice addition to my setup. A little slow on the notification and wish it had theft detection like my 2ks.

So it works as expected, recommended it to friends

All signals always on point and great communication day or night, easy to install and amazing customer support

They were good at the beginning but after 6 months the batteries will not charge from solar

The purchase is worth it if you don’t like to run wires around your house. Solar charges a bit slow but still worth it.

Use it everyday works great does it’s job always on time never late

I’ve been using this is very good. I like the fact that it doesn’t have a monthly fee I control everything from my phone.

Excellent camera, works excellently with solar energy and an excellent resolution

Great camera great price with a solid app great buy.

Floodlight went out within 3 months immediately after the first snow fall in Colorado. Order number from Eufy is needed for filing out the support form so strongly advise purchasing the Geek Squad support due to the support issues even with a Eufy order number and the only on line issues described about this is the suspicions about these solo cams actually being waterproof.

Best investment so far. Great quality and would definitely recommend.

Works great! Bought when it was on sale for $129.00.

I purchased my camera in NOV 2021, one in a half year later I'm starting to have problems. 1. Not receiving notification on Samsung mobile phone app. 2. Camera video blurry / Foggie and I can't clean lens.

Product was great I would definitely Recommend for affordable security

Excellent for outdoors you would need to have great Wi-Fi signal to be able to enjoy this Spotlight Camera.

Great product. The trick is getting it mounted in the best position so the battery can be charged adequately.