Returned S330 Kit, Bought S340 + S380

Hi All,

I must say I find navigating this forum quite odd, so forgive me if this post isn’t in the right spot.

Just thought I’d post the start of our Eufy camera journey. We bought the Eufycam 3 S330 twin kit with the S380 Homebase recently. After 10 days, I returned it. After troubleshooting with Eufy over foggy night time images, the cameras were likely faulty.

So, we went for the S340 Gen 2 this time, with an S380 homebase as well. I’m loving the S340 thus far, the tracking with tilt and pan is fabulous. I have ordered a little hat from Amazon Australia to go with it and help keep rain off of it somewhat.

HOLACA Sun Rain Shade Cover for eufy SoloCam S340

Cheers!

I agree with you about navigating the forum. I was going to post about my positive experience with switching from Ring to eufy but couldn’t figure out where to post it.

Hello @trihold !

Thanks for your message; I’m glad it’s not just me :grin:

How long ago did you switch, and have you had any features come to mind that you miss?

I switched a little over a month ago. The only things I’ll miss with Ring are:

  1. The Ring cameras have a little wider horizontal field of view which covered more of our property.
  2. The Ring video doorbell has a solar panel option.
  3. Video playback is smoother for fast-forwarding and rewinding. eufy video playback gets glitchy sometimes if you try to pause, rewind or fast-forward.

I made a long post on Reddit about my experience so far. I’ll post it on this forum soon.

Great points!

I hope the glitchy video playback, especially the cross tracking ‘stories’, improve over time with software updates. I liked the Ring left to right scrollable timeline very much, it was easy and fluid, but then it didn’t have the cross tracking ability either.

Why the umbrella to protect the camera, is it not waterproof?

I’m not concerned with the waterproofing, it is to help keep the rain off the lenses. Think of it as a hat to keep it dry so that the images stay clear instead of having rain cover the lenses. They haven’t developed windscreen wipers for the S340 yet so this is something else to help in the meantime :grin:

Depending on the positioning of the Eufy S340 Soloar Camera. Determines the performance of the camera regarding the AI tracking. It struggles to track people who are within 1-1.5 meters moving from left to right of the cameras PIR sensor range.

The tilt and rotate mechanism speed is poor.

:grin:

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