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Soliom Solar Powered Security Camera [model S600] -- DEMO & REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Want to add a security camera to your yard or some other spot where it's difficult to run a power line? No problem with this cool solar powered Soliom HD Security Camera [model S600]. With its big solar panel and substantial battery, this device will cover your security needs. The Soliom S600 also features remote tilt/pan/zoom features so you can adjust your viewpoint, even from hundreds of miles away. Support for both local triggered event video storage on a MicroSD Card and cloud storage of video footage is also integrated into the design, all managed from a handy smartphone app. As tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explains, however, there are some limitations to this device too, notably around nighttime motion triggered events and recordings. Still, for the price, it is an opiton you'll want to explore more. Check out the Soliom S600 on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YbkLgb
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A solar-powered security camera? Let's have a closer look
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Dave Taylor here, and I got nothing on my table other than my phone
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because what we're looking at today is the Solium solar-powered security camera, model S600
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Let me cut away and you'll see exactly what it looks like
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As you can see, it's a pretty big, substantial unit, and it has a nice, big solar panel
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And the nice thing is, is you can tilt and adjust the solar panel to maximize the amount of sun it gets
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which is important, because you want to use that for your power source
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Now, let me tell you a little bit about it. It's Wi-Fi enabled, though it can run without your Wi-Fi being on once you get it configured
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if you have a microSD card in. We'll come back to that in a second
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It is battery-powered. Initially, you want to charge it with a wall charger
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but then once you install it, as long as it gets some sun, it should be able to stay powered up all by itself
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So that's pretty handy. It comes with a 9,000 mAh battery, and you can drop in an additional 18,000 mAh of battery capacity, if that works for you
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So you could have, like, something where it's even, like, stuck in a tree or something, right
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It is completely wireless. As long as it can get to your Wi-Fi network, it's fine
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and you can access it, and you can get notifications, you can see what's live
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and it has 320-degree horizontal, 160-degree lens, so it can really see a lot of what is, you know, what you're pointing at
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And what's great is it actually has the ability for you to be able to pan, tilt, and zoom
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But that means it's not a camera that just sits there. You can, from the app, actually change what's going on and where it's pointing
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and even zoom in, so pretty slick, actually. So, it uses passive infrared sensors for motion activation
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and you can turn on or off a nighttime spotlight. There's these four pretty darn bright LEDs, and that works out really well
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So that's definitely something that's really nice, but I have it in a well-lit nighttime environment
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because I have my porch light on all the time. So, I turn that off, doesn't really matter
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It does color night vision, and it's supposed to be able to sense up to 32 feet
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You can see there's these two dark red sensors at night that indicate that it's detected motion
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Now, I did have some issues with it not always recording motion after it detected it at night
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but that's another story. So, let's see. It can record in 720 or 1080p, and that's really nice
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And it does a really typical thing for these devices. If you put in a microSD card, it can record straight to the card, which is great
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and then you can access that data from the app, and I'll demonstrate that in just a second
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But you can also pay for a cloud storage service, and then it'll automatically upload all the content to the cloud
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I'm not a big fan of paying a subscription after I already have something installed
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so I don't tend to do that, but you can opt to do that if that actually works better for you
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I like having it in the card. I suppose if someone stole the unit, they'd steal the card
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and I wouldn't have that video. Eh, que sera, sera. So, you can use up to 64 gig of microSD card, which is nice
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and it can handle anywhere from minus 4 Fahrenheit to 140 degrees Fahrenheit
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Now, we don't get Sub-Zero very often, but this next winter might be interesting
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There might be a couple of nights where it's mighty cold for this. So, we'll see how that plays out
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For now, it's been some hot days, and it's worked out just fine
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Which brings us to the app. So, enough talking. Let's demonstrate this
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So, it's a little confusing because it's a Soliom device, but it uses the U-Box app
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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually just record the app
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and then let you see it in a little window. So, you launch the U-Box app, which says UBIO, which is a little confusing
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and then it shows you what's online. Let's get this to be a live view, so you'll see me actually recording
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And, with any luck, let's see how this goes. Okay. So, there I am. Hi there
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And you can see that I have notes and my camera, and I have an extra light and all that
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But what's more interesting is that I can do things like I can zoom
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and now I'm going to spin the inset around so you can see it in full glory
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because now I want to show you how I can move the camera, right
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So, I can move it out a little bit, and maybe turn it down a little bit
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And all of this I'm doing from the app, so this is really cool. And then if I want to zoom in, I can do that too
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And that's just pinch and zoom. Pretty standard stuff. And then I'll go back to where I was. One, two, and then up one
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And if I wanted to, I could even zoom in a little bit there, and you can see that I'm just sitting here with shorts on
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and there's my phone, and it's like Inception right there, right? So, more interestingly is if I go there
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So, we go back here, and now I can actually tap on the little cloud
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and now you can see that it shows me a tiny little card, and that card is actually where all the stored data is on the device
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So, now I can scroll back, and I can say, hmm, what happened here
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And we'll see. It takes a couple of seconds. It's actually getting the data from that micro SD card
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and here I am setting up. So, that's cool. Now, you can go back. So, I have this fifth, the fourth
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and I might go back here, and I might say, well, let's see what happened here
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at 1.15 p.m. on the fourth, and again, it just takes a couple of seconds
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and it'll show me the video. Now, this was interesting because this was a really windy afternoon
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and it caused a lot of false triggers, and that was a little frustrating
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So, I have the sensitivity set to medium, but it still gave me a lot of false triggers that day, so it goes
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I also found, like I said earlier, that it doesn't always correctly trigger and record at night
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So, I found nighttime to be a little bit hit or miss, which was frustrating
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because it's in a great location, and it should work really well, but it doesn't
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So, it goes. You can do two-way voice from the app, and finally, let me just show you real quick, here's the settings
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So, there's a lot of different settings you can access, including how long a video you want to record
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So, there's really a lot to like, and the price is really terrific for something that's completely wireless, self-contained
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and has a built-in solar panel system for power. So, you know, you really can put this almost anywhere
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as long as there's Wi-Fi, it's going to work. And for all I know, once you have it set up
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you might be able to put it in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and it'll just record onto the card, and then every so often
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you go and grab the card and see what it got. So, you could ostensibly use this for like, nighttime tracking animals
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that are coming to your barn or something. Not sure that would work, but you could try it
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Anyway, not much else to talk about but the price, because it is really remarkably inexpensive
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Now, that, which you can't see right now, is the Solium solar-powered security camera model S600
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and it is a remarkably inexpensive $159 at Amazon.com. Now, if you've done any homework with any of these sort of security camera systems
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that do Wi-Fi, and have motion sensors, and have solar panels, and give you the tilt-pan-zoom, or PTZ as they call it
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then $159 is a pretty remarkably low price. Definitely worth checking out
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So, with that, I'm going to get back to, I guess, watching myself on my phone
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It's a little weird. Whatever. Anyway, I'll catch you in my next video
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