AOQEE 2K Solar Camera Outdoor Wireless-2.4Ghz WiFi Cameras for Home Security, Continuous Power, Color Night Vision, SD Card/Cloud Storage, Waterproof, Compatible with Alexa/Google Home S1 (1 Pack)

The S1 4-pack outdoor cameras have provided a great home security solution. With built-in solar panels, they stay powered without the hassle of wiring or charging. The dual-lens setup delivers sharp, detailed footage day and night, and the weatherproof design ensures reliable performance in any season. Setup is quick, and ideal for full-property coverage. I like that I can view in real-time or receive motion alerts on my phone for peace of mind.

I wanted to enhance my outdoor security with additional solar cams, as my old one stopped working. I do not live in a bad neighborhood but always looking for an excuse to buy more security cams. I favor the medium priced cams and feel they work as long or longer than some higher priced cameras (such as Nest). I came across these S1 4P AOQEE solar cameras, liked the positive reviews, and thought I’d give them a shot. My wifi is strong, and my always rule on security cams is there can’t be any wifi connectivity issues (nor any issues staying connected). I have numerous other cams outside with no wifi issues, so if a new cam purchased has connectivity issues, I know it’s the cam, and not the wifi. In any event, I’ve had these cams up and running outside for two weeks now, and I’ve not lost the internet even once. That’s good news. Setup and installation were simple. Average time to get the cams connected and up and running was about three minutes total. During a very simple setup, I used their QR code on my phone and the cams pared with the app in less than 15 seconds each. It uses the Wansview app and I use this app for a few other cams and never had problems with it. I need solar cams as certain areas on my property do not have electrical outlets available. After two weeks, the battery on each is always around 98-100%. Even with cloudy days. These S1 solar cams are my first with built-in panels, instead of a separate solar panel with connection cord, but I see no issues. Love that I don’t have to remove them to charge to my PC. Also, the supplied mounts are easily adjustable so setting up with the angle needed for best sun exposure is no problem. Regarding video quality, the images are quite clear in daytime, and night vision is impressive. Good stuff. The motion detection feature is pretty good, as notifications to my phone are sent within seconds, and it’s quite accurate with no false alerts for the most part. As mentioned, I feel cameras such as these give more value to the buck than some higher priced models that do the same things. For the money spent, I am quite satisfied with these S1 Aoqee security cameras.

I'm happy with my purchase of these aoqee cameras. The setup was easy and I like the fact that I'm not required to sign up for a cloud subscription and I can opt to use sd cards in the cameras. The cameras work rally well and have excellent video quality day or night. They are not perfect however. But overall I'm happy with them and are a great value at the price I paid. Oh, the solar charging works great as well. I have my camers installed under eaves on my home and the still charge great. I have not had to plug them in to charge at all. They've been installed for a couple of weeks now.

I bought one of these solar powered cameras to try it out because I was tied of the hassle of cords everywhere outside and running cords into the house, and I have been pleasantly surprised by it. Installed it on the post in my driveway that receives son throughout the day. I live in the Southern United States so it gets in the triple digits here and the camera has held up to the heat and the violent thunderstorms we experience seasonally. The solar panel on the top and the battery in the camera are working well in tandem as the camera works 24-7 and hasn't died on me yet. The picture is very clear and in color. It connected easily to my Wi-Fi and was very easy to install. (I will say that you need to know how to turn on your 2.4 signal if you have fiberoptic before you are ready to install the camera. You can contact your ISP and they will tell you how to do it if you don't know.) The microphone and the speakers work very well. It has an app you can download on your phone. Through this app you can do a variety of things such as setting up the camera, speaking to someone through the camera and then in turn hear what they're saying in reply. You can also record footage and retrieve it from the cloud or download it to your phone. On the camera itself there's a slot for an SD card which I haven't used yet, but I'm assuming it would record to the SD card. I'm unsure of how often it would be overwritten, but I'm assuming it would be dependent upon the size capacity of the SD card itself. Maybe the manufacturer can answer that question for me. The only possible drawback is it probably needs to be in a sunny location or very near an outside outlet as it comes with a very short power cable with no box, so if you have areas around the outside of your space that are very shady you may need to get creative with where you hang it up if there's no sun due to a large tree or no wall plug nearby. I'm actually going to order another six of these and play around with the amount of and type of sun they receive depending on where I install them to see if I can put it under my tree to test i's functionality in a shady location or other areas where it may receive only morning or only afternoon sun. This is mostly going to be performed out of curiosity and an abundance of time. For the money, this camera is excellent and I would highly recommend it.

I had similar solar cameras, but these have integrated solar panels onto the body of the camera. So there isn't an additional wire for a sleek look. Camera quality is great with clear videos. You can adjust the sensitivity of motions and omit private areas from surveillance. Overall, it has great functions since you can monitor all of the units in one viewing window on the app to monitor all your point of interest. The setup was as seamless as the other AOQEE units. I’m going to paraphrase the manufacturing instructions. Download the app before doing anything with the camera. Supply power to the camera and wait a few seconds until the blue light blinks. Once the blue light blinks, reset the camera by holding the reset button to prepare it for pairing. You’ll hear a voice response when it's done successfully. Launch the app and navigate to the home screen on the top right corner. Tap "+" to add this specific camera to your monitoring list. You’ll see two tabs when you launch the "+" function; one tab is for AOQEE, while the others are their sister companies. It’s handy and easy to identify which camera you’re using with those pictures. Upon selecting your camera, it’ll ask about your WiFi network log-in credentials. Then you’ll be prompted to put your phone in front of the camera for it to read the QR code that your phone will display. Wait for it to do its thing after you hear the voice response when it has been done successfully for a minute or two. When it is finished establishing a network, you can customize your camera’s settings and its name.

I ordered these solar powered cameras for use around the perimeter of my home. Installation is very easy and the kit includes everything you need, even templates for ease in mounting. The setup for the camera is very straightforward and only took a few minutes for all 4 cameras. The picture and sound quality is impressive and the night vision works incredibly well. I am able to very clearly see, even broad angles of my yard. The app is very easy to navigate and allows for customization for your motion sensors. Stray animals that cross my property won’t set off an alert but a delivery driver will. It gives me a lot of peace at mind for when I’m away from home.

These cameras are nice looking, have lots of great features and produce nice sharp, high-contrast images. The mounting plates work well and firmly support these against any flat surface. The problem with these isn't the cameras themselves, which appear to be well-made. The problem is the Wansview App, which you need to make these operational and monitor the images. Finding the correct app for your application can be difficult, especially if you're using MacOS. It took me several tries from their website to find that their original Mac link didn't work and you had to load a different updated app to make this work. Even then, the software is extremely buggy. The window cannot be resized and the entire app and images appear sideways. Images sometimes take a long time to load as well. Wansview, Aoqee or whatever company this is needs to find a good web developer and fix their app.

UPDATE: 3 days past return window one camera has died. It stays on network just long enough to get it setup the drops network. ORIGINAL POST I’ve been reluctant to get solar cameras as I have heard nothing but bad about them. But these cameras works great! They are worth the purchase price even without a cloud based service plan (but you get a lot of extra features with a plan). I check all alerts every morning. I purchased a kit of 4 cameras. The setup was a breeze, I did it manually as I could not get the first one to see the bar code. Manual is faster for me anyways. I used some old 4gb and 8gb SD memory cards I had lying around so I used them. I try to avoid monthly service fees. When I first received them as I set each one up I put it on a charger even though none were below 86% battery power left. I went ahead and updated all cameras to latest firmware. Not fully trusting solar power I decided to test them after fully charging all of them by plugging them in, in case I needed to return them. I turned one camera off and placed it back in the box. I placed 2 cameras (turned on) in my office so I could see how the batteries would hold up without sunlight. I mounted one outside in the sun. I played with the all different settings for 3 days on all cameras, testing the motion alerts and reviewing videos. At the end of 3 days of torture test, overall I’m extremely pleased, enough so that I mounted all the cameras outside. Im keeping them. I continued using/testing the cameras for about 2 weeks before placing review. Just to make sure everything was ok. I later tested multiple SD cards up to 64gb. SD card size and speed does NOT seem to make an any difference. Now for the good and the bad. THE GOOD The batteries performed better than I expected. After close to 72 hours the 2 cameras hidden from light but working, recording video and even using the bright lights for motion detection, the batteries in both cameras never dropped below 88%! So cloudy days won’t be a problem for these cameras. The camera I turned off during testing was still at 100% when turned back on. On the camera mounted outdoors the battery never dropped below 99%. So solar using batteries shouldn’t be a problem. Great relief as I have had problems getting power to cameras before. The quality of video recording is very good, see video of neighbors cat entering/entering my yard. The flash from dark to well-lit is when the camera's white lights turn on. Controllable in software. Had a bad storm come through a few days ago. 40mph winds and 3 inches of rain for hours. ALL cameras held up just great. No water issues that I can see. THE BAD (somewhat) Overall the hardware ( the cameras themselves) are fine, however the software could use a little tweaking. I do like the “grouping” feature where I can watch all 4 at once (see pict). All weaknesses appear to be fault of software and/or settings that we can’t change. Video recording sometimes starts too late. Sometimes you never see the actual motion that triggered the alert, saving an extra second or 2 at the start would solve that but it’s not user selectable. :-( Most times this isn’t an issue if the motion continues in the video, but sometimes the object has moved outside of area recording too fast to be seen very well, especially when using far detection. Far detection works ( for me upto 80 feet away or more. However I feel it is unnecessary as you would not be able to distinguish any identifiable features of any person or object. I feel the default setting of max 10 seconds for recording is sufficient most times but a little too short in some cases. 15 seconds would be ideal but you can’t change that when using SD memory cards. You have to purchase a service plan to extend that. I have other cameras also using Wansview software that record up to 20 seconds without a service plan and record the actual beginning of detection. So that is definitely a software setting. OVERALL Maybe it should be 4 3/4 stars as I would like an extra second at the start of recordings. Of course as you can tell I’m really picky.