Wyze Battery Cam Pro Guide for PC

Indoor? Outdoor? Both? For its latest home security camera, Wyze dispenses with labels and focuses instead on its freedom from wires. Outfitted with a beefy 6200mAh rechargeable battery, this pint-sized device is ready for deployment in any environment.

The blockish camera fits in well with Wyze’s long legacy of diminutive surveillance cams, an upright rectangle measuring 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches (HxWxD). The camera can sit on its base on a bookshelf or be mounted to a wall with the included hardware. The default mounting hardware, however, only works for wall installations, not ceilings. If you want to hang the camera from your roof eave or ceiling, For ceiling mounting, you’ll need to add the $10 Wyze Universal Mount to your shopping cart.

Wyze has assigned an IP65 weatherization rating to the Battery Cam Pro, which means it’s dustproof and that it’s protected from water jets coming at it from any direction. We’ll tell you everything you need to know about IP codes at the preceding link. Honestly, the camera just doesn’t look all that rugged, having what appears to be an open speaker grille on its backside. Dust might not get all the way inside the unit and cause it to fail, but the tiny holes sure look like they’ll get clogged with grime if left outside.

Inside or out, the Battery Cam Pro boasts plenty of other solid specs in addition to that IP rating: Maximum resolution is 2560 x 1440 pixels, with a 134-degree diagonal viewing angle. That resolution can be dropped down a tick if you need to save storage space and reduce the camera’s bandwidth consumption. Two-way audio, along with a 100dB siren, is also included. The typical infrared night vision is onboard, but the unit also includes two small LEDs that can provide a modest level of spotlight illumination. These are triggered when motion is detected, but don’t think of them as a substitution for a porchlight. Their primary mission is to provide a degree of color night vision, at least within a few yards of the camera’s lens.

Speaking of motion detection, the Wyze Battery Cam Pro is outfitted with two motion sensors: a standard passive infrared sensor augmented by radar, which is not something you typically find in a consumer-grade security camera. I found the unit very accurate at catching movement, and the Wyze app categorizes motion into five types: person, pet, vehicle, package, or something else. This feature seems to be evolving in the app; it had about 90 percent accuracy in my testing (and never properly categorized sightings of my cat as “pet” motion).

The Wyze Battery Cam Pro is easy to set up