This Eufy security camera can show nighttime as if it were daytime

The newest information camera from Eufy — Anker’s astute location institution — tin spot intelligibly successful the dark, uses radar question sensing for less mendacious alerts, and records 24/7 erstwhile wired. As with different Eufy cams, the caller S3 Pro has escaped facial recognition, package, vehicle, and favored detection, positive locally stored recorded video with nary monthly fees.

The EufyCam S3 Pro launches this week arsenic a two-camera bundle with 1 HomeBase S380 for $549.99. The HomeBase 3 enables astute alerts and section retention (16GB onboard storage, expandable up to 16 TB). It besides connects the S3 Pro to Apple Home, making it the archetypal Eufy camera to enactment with Apple’s astute location level since the EufyCam 2 bid from 2019.

Eufy spokesperson Brett White confirmed to The Verge that the S3 Pro volition beryllium compatible with HomeKit Secure Video. Apple’s end-to-end encrypted video retention service. “The program is for each aboriginal devices to person Apple Home compatibility, and we’re looking into grandfathering older devices, too,” said White.

The S3 Pro has a caller colour nighttime imaginativeness diagnostic called MaxColor Vision that promises “daylike footage adjacent successful pitch-dark conditions, without the request for a spotlight.” I saw a demo of this exertion astatine the IFA tech amusement successful Berlin this month, and it was impressive.

A camera was positioned wrong a wholly acheronian room, sending video to a show outside, connected which I could spot everything successful the country arsenic if it were daytime. Eufy says a 1/1.8-inch CMOS sensor, F1.0 aperture, and an AI-powered representation awesome processor powerfulness the tech.

While the colour nighttime imaginativeness doesn't usage a spotlight, the S3 Pro does see a motion-activated spotlight that Eufy says tin accommodate based connected real-time lighting to springiness you the champion image. The airy tin besides beryllium manually adjusted utilizing the app portion viewing a unrecorded stream.

New dual question detection uses radar sensing exertion combined with passive infrared (PIR) technology. This should place radical much accurately and not nonstop alerts that there’s a idiosyncratic successful the gait erstwhile it’s a histrion blowing successful the wind. Eufy says it reduces mendacious alerts by up to 99 percent. 

The S3 Pro is battery-powered with a 13,000 mAh artillery that provides up to a quoted 365 days of power. A built-in star sheet tin powerfulness the camera powerfulness for longer. In my investigating of the EufyCam S3, which besides has a built-in star panel, I’ve not had to recharge it successful implicit a year.

The S3 Pro's star sheet is 50 percent larger than the S3's, and Eufy claims it tin support the camera afloat charged with conscionable an hr of sunlight a day. Eufy besides includes an outer star sheet with the camera, truthful you tin instal the camera nether an eave and inactive get power.

Eufy says the S3 Pro records up to 4K solution and is powered by a USB-C cable. When wired, it tin grounds 24/7 — the archetypal consumer-level battery-powered camera from Eufy with this capability.

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Following immoderate superior security and privateness incidents successful 2022, Eufy has published a caller database of privacy commitments on its website. The institution besides worked with cybersecurity adept Ralph Echemendia pursuing the issues, and past year, helium completed an assessment that, the institution claims, shows it has “met each proactive and reactive information benchmarks.”