Wyze’s Budget-friendly Video Doorbell Gets A Six-month Battery

You tin usage Wyze’s caller doorbell cam connected artillery powerfulness unsocial aliases hardwire it to a powerfulness root to entree much functionality. | Image: Wyze

Wyze has announced a caller budget-friendly doorbell camera. The Wyze Battery Video Doorbell looks akin to nan Video Doorbell v2 nan marque released successful 2023, but arsenic nan sanction implies, it adds a rechargeable artillery truthful it’s easier to instal without nan request for wiring aliases entree to power. But wired powerfulness is besides an action if you want to unlock its afloat capabilities.

The Wyze Battery Video Doorbell is available starting coming done nan company’s online store for $65.98, while nan company’s wired-only Video Doorbell v2 launched 2 years agone astatine $39.99 and is now disposable bundled pinch a wireless chime for $59.98. The caller artillery type doesn’t connection rather arsenic overmuch solution arsenic nan v2 — 1536 x 1536 compared to 2048 x 1536 for nan older exemplary — but it has a overmuch broader 150-degree viewing perspective successful some nan horizontal and vertical directions. The institution describes it arsenic a “head-to-toe 1:1 view,” and it should supply a much broad look astatine who aliases what is connected your beforehand porch, including packages near leaning correct up against your beforehand door.

Battery life is rated astatine up to six months betwixt charges, but that will alteration depending connected really overmuch activity location is connected and astir your porch. Wyze said nan artillery life for its Video Doorbell Pro that launched successful 2022 was betwixt 3 to six months, but successful our testing we estimated it being person to 4 to six weeks betwixt top-ups.

Footage from events captured erstwhile mobility is detected, aliases erstwhile nan doorbell is pressed, tin beryllium stored locally connected a microSD paper up to 256GB successful size. Cloud retention is an option, but it requires a monthly subscription that ranges successful price from $2.99 per period to $19.99 per month. The subscription besides provides entree to much precocious features for illustration AI-powered personification and package detection. The Wyze Battery Video Doorbell does support 24/7 signaling to nan representation card, but only erstwhile it’s hardwired to a powerfulness source.

The doorbell cam has an IP65 upwind guidance rating, truthful it tin beryllium installed connected doors not protected from nan elements by an overhang, and successful summation to two-way talk and entree to prerecorded responses done nan Wyze mobile app, an optional deterrence characteristic automatically plays a sound punctual to fto visitors cognize they’re being recorded.

As pinch Wyze’s different smart location products, including its caller Solar Cam Pan announced earlier this week, nan Battery Video Doorbell includes features recovered connected pricier alternatives from competitors for illustration Google and Amazon. But it’s besides important to see security, which is an ongoing interest for each cloud-connected information camera products. Wyze recently introduced caller features to amended nan security of its products, but past twelvemonth nan institution had an incident wherever some customers had entree to video feeds from different users, and earlier that it was discovered that Wyze had grounded to disclose vulnerabilities successful now-discontinued products for respective years.