eufy Security HomeBase S280 for Security Camera, Indoor and Outdoor, Apple HomeKit Compatible, No Monthly Fee, 16GB Local Storage, Compatible Products, Advanced Encryption (Renewed)

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This outdoor wireless camera has excellent quality for clarity and a wide angleof vision. It is also easy to install and adjust to the proper angle desired. It was important to know this is Apple HomeKit compatible

We have several Eufy Security devices at our home and our parents homes and we love them.We love the ease of setup and use and the lack of subscription is ultimately why we chose to invest in Eufy. However, nothing is perfect. They are close but there are some annoyances.We have one Home Base 2 and 2 home base 3's, 8x S330 Outdoor Solar Cams, 7x S350 Indoor Pan and Tilts and 3x T8213 Dual Camera Video Doorbells.Currently on IOS you will randomly be interrupted by a feature notification when you try to access your camera. It has to do with swiping on screen to direct your camera to a point in the image and it will automatically pan to that point.If you have the camera you will have learned this and if you don't who cares. It's maddening and it happens randomly on all cameras. It happens infrequently enough to be a nuisance rather than a machine breaking glitch but when you just want to check your feed and have to get past that full screen feature notification it drives you nuts for a second.Every once in a while... even less often than the feature notification... you might get another kind of on screen interruption in the form of an add. Not an alert but an add for a product. Also super annoying. I'm fine with that kind of stuff in the store section of the app but not in the main portal to your cameras and home bases. To be fair this has not happened for a while and maybe the fixed and or discontinued this as I'm sure there were complaints.The third annoyance is that there is no way to batch export all or many of your videos to an external drive for unencrypted access on your home mac or pc. You have to export them one at a time for the exported video to be readable by your computer. You can view any of your videos through the desktop or IOS app but that's not the point. There should be a password protected batch export and decrypt option. This is useful for insurance claims or tracking garden growth or lawn health or tracking animal traffic so on and so forth. They need to implement a batch export and unencrypt option on all Home Base models.Again... other than that we love these cameras. A wired system would be better but till we get that up and running I think the Eufy line of cameras are great.

I am on my 3rd homebase in as many years. The first one died in about a year into running 3 cameras. The second one was a work horse and I got 2 years out of it. I was delighted to see that Amazon offered a refurbished version. My delight quickly faded yesterday when I plugged it in. It could only recognize my cameras while they were in the same room and all were offline when placed back in the locations where they have been for the past 3 years. Amazon delivered it in its original manufactures box (no protection during shipping) without even resealing it. There was no documentation inside, like I see with others, indicating that the unit has been refurbished. Im thinking that I received someone else's return. FYI....Eufy support is a joke. I phoned them after my second HB2 stopped working and they instructed me to reset it.....and then disconnected the call. All said...I regret going with Eufy to handle my security needs.

I have this homebase connected to my E340 and it works great.

So far so good had it for about 2 1/2 months

Fir the money you wouldcexpect power and connection cords. I returned it

You install the app on your smart phone and it's easy to set up, attaching it to wifi server. I plugged my camera into the home base to charge and it was ready within several hours.