Eufy’s new $70 security cam captures color footage at night

Eufy has announced a caller information camera, the Indoor Cam E30. The camera updates an older exemplary released successful 2020 with 4K video signaling capabilities and an added spotlight that adds colour seizure to its emblematic nighttime imaginativeness options. It’s disposable present for $69.99.

The Indoor Cam E30 tin rotate 360 degrees horizontally and cookware 75 degrees vertically, allowing it to show an full room. It uses on-device AI to observe the beingness of humans and pets and tin besides admit and alert you to audio cues specified arsenic an babe crying. The camera tin automatically way subjects successful question to support them successful frame. Its presumption tin besides beryllium manually controlled, but lone disposable done the Eufy mobile app, not Apple Home.

The instrumentality is compatible with HomeKit — including Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video — allowing you to prevention recordings to iCloud. But that requires an iCloud Plus subscription and it limits the streaming solution to 1080P. If you’d similar to spell subscription free, the Indoor Cam E30 includes a microSD paper slot for storing section footage, which tin beryllium streamed to the Eufy mobile app astatine 4K. If you request further storage, the camera tin besides beryllium connected to Eufy’s $149.99 HomeBase S380, which tin beryllium expanded to up to 16TB. (Eufy has promised it’s fixed the privacy issues we caught successful 2022.)

Two-way audio allows you to pass done the camera remotely, which is perfect for telling the canine oregon feline to get disconnected the sofa portion you’re astatine work. (Editor’s note: has a feline ever listened?) And portion the added spotlight allows the Indoor Cam E30 to seizure nighttime footage successful color, it reduces however acold the camera spot successful the acheronian to 16.4-feet. Using its infrared lights limits the camera to lone seeing successful achromatic and white, but it boosts its ocular scope to a small implicit 32-feet.