Review on 📷 eufy Security Solo OutdoorCam C24: Advanced 2K Resolution Outdoor Security Camera with Spotlight, Color Night Vision, and No Monthly Fees by Brian Nelson

Excellent camera with great picture quality (better than my latest high quality commercial grade 4MP NVR camera where each camera costs 4 times as much as this Eufy), night vision, very wide field of view and very easy installation with a very strong magnet (see cons below) and a long USB cable. At night, the searchlight is responsive and provides continuous color night vision. Two-way audio is also a great feature. The camera looks well protected from the weather. Notifications are instant and the person detection rate is currently 100%. There is a beta pet detection setting that doesn't work for cat detection in my experience - I don't know about larger pets. The camera worked fine for about a week and then behaved strangely: every morning it stays in black and white mode, where it doesn't start recording motion and doesn't send notifications. I just noticed this because I had people in my driveway but didn't get a notification. The video stream is still in real time, but only in b/w. Sometimes this happens at night and for now the only solution is to restart the camera. This has been happening for several days now. This is a camera issue as I have noticed the same behavior on 2 iPhones and 2 iPads and none of my Indoor Cam 2k are showing this issue. The reset is a hassle as you have to pull out a long ladder to get to the camera and reset button which requires you to reconfigure the camera due to the magnetic mount which wouldn't be necessary with a fixed mount (it really should be in provided in the box). There should also be a software reset option, rather than a physical button on the camera where you also have to open the microSD card's protective film, which isn't great if you do it often. I hope it gets fixed - and maybe soon. At the moment it's completely useless for intruder detection until this is fixed. Hence my generous 3 star rating which I will have to downgrade to 1 star if this can't be remedied. Otherwise a solid 5 star device. UPDATE: Eufy technical support responded to my query very quickly within a few hours. They asked me to send a video for analysis and a few days later they sent me a new camera to test. However, this had the same error and the technical support pointed out a possible problem with the firmware and provided a new firmware 1.0.2.6 within 3 days! This one fixed this weird behavior and now the camera works great. They even let me keep the original camera. I highly recommend this camera and if you need technical support Eufy's response is fantastic!