I use a few years the EufyCam 2 pro’s around my house. Very satisfied.
The base station is located in the center of my square house. On that way, every Cam’s reception is good enough to work stable.
My parents are impressed about my cams and they want them too.
Problem: their garden is way bigger as ours. No way the farthest cam could connect to the base, which should be in the coverage of their wifi signal.
How could I manage this: does Eufy has a kind of repeater system, or can I install no matter which wifi repeater?
To be clear: it should extend the signal between one or more cams and the base station.
Came here with a similar question. I’ve added a Netgear EX5000 range extender to try to get a camera online at my detached garage, which is maybe 25 yards away. Try as I might, I can’t get the camera to work with the range extender. Is their something I need to tweak in settings? My phone and my wife’s phone get online at the garage just fine, but walking the camera from the house to the garage, the signal dies. It’s as though it doesn’t understand the mesh hand-off and then can never find the new signal…
Eufy does not have a Homebase signal extender yet. The only option you have to go for multiple Homebases.
Or you go for the standalone wifi cameras without Homebase like the S40 those do work with any wifi extender.
The HomeBase and cameras transmit/use their own low powered Wi-Fi to link/ communicate with each other, your home’s Wi-Fi has nothing to do with that link. Only the HomeBase is connected to your home’s Wi-Fi or ethernet cable.
Unfortunately there’s no extender that can be placed between the HomeBase and Camera that I know of…
option is either to move the HomeBase closer to the cameras or cameras closer to the HomeBase. @Fair_Admin :Eufy does not have a Homebase signal extender yet.
~I don’t know what they’re waiting for, boy if they did they would sell like hotcakes!
I don’t believe so, it’s not configured to do so.
You could use the second Homebase for that camera that’s too far from your original HomeBase as long as you have the second home base connected to your router or Wi-Fi.
Then it’s just a matter of adding the second HomeBase to the app and then the camera to the second Homebase.
But, mentioned before purchasing a solo cam that doesn’t rely on a Homebase, and connects via your home’s Wi-Fi may be a cheaper option.
it actually can but not without added expense. to extend the range of the system you will need a mesh network with nodes that have ethernet inputs. you would plug the 2nd homebase 2 into the node and the node will relay the signal to the mesh network router. generally speaking, range extenders are old technology. in a mesh network the nodes don’t use the main network to connect to the network router they have their own network for the backhaul.
The backhaul setting did affect my eufy cam. In the mesh settings it was set to auto. I changed the backhaul connection priority from Auto to 2.5Ghz WAN first. Immediately got two extra signal bars on the eufy cam. Aimesh was probably forcing the eufy cam to connect with 5Ghz and that might have been the issue. Thank you, dpoppo for the suggestion.
I read in the manual that it’s possible to use the home wi-fi network to extend the Homebase range by allowing it to piggyback on your home wi-fi.
In the app, click on the Homebase icon, then click on the upper-right little gear (settings). You should see a Multi_Bridge (Beta) submenu. Open it and it will ask you for your home wi-fi network SSID and password.
There’s a note saying that it only works with the 2.4GHz frequency.
I have not tried yet because I placed the Homebase in a central point between the cameras. Brought an Ethernet cable through the walls to connect it to my router and so far it’s working fine.
As a another info, I use a TP-Link RE650 range extender in my house and it works fine.
Hello
I am experiencing the same issue between my Eufy DoorBell located on my front outside gate. It is only located 10m by direct line of site from a NIGHTHAWK Mesh satellite but only receive ~ 90KB/s signal. Very weak video and terrible audio. Unfortunately I cannot find access to the …Multi_Bridge (Beta) submenu. I tried clicking on the "upper-right little gear (settings) but nothing appeared. The system is a Homebase S380.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. All other cameras have a much stronger signal ie 200~300KB/s.
There is a feature available to e330 and HomeBase 3 owners called “Multibridge” that allows your E330 to connect to your router instead of the HB3 if needed. Eufy really need to implement this feature for all the cams.
Please please we need it for big houses. I have a good Mesh Wi-Fi and a camera is only gettin one bar and sometimes hard to see live view.
Hello,
Your doorbell isn’t using your Mesh network because it can’t.
The doorbell can only use the Wi-Fi that the HomeBase3 S380 transmits for a Wi-Fi connection.
Multi-Bridge option is only available for the E330 professional cam.