Wish list of features for EufyCam

[jon44]

Exposure adjustments please! Different ones for night and day modes. At night the areas of interest are just black, there are some bright features that the camera is exposing for instead.

[Maypo52]

Have you made sure you have night vision turned on?

[AnkerSupport]

To add on to this. Maybe a solar panel or plug in solution that could offer live local streaming. Again, ideally I would love to have the app running on an iPad in the house so I could just walk over to it and see what’s going on outside of the house. This was a huge advantage to my old system (blue iris).

Thanks for the feedback! Forwarded!

[AnkerSupport]

Where can I order cameras or single parts from Germany ?

We will be offering single cams/parts after the Kickstarter is over!

[strebend]

This may already be present somewhere in the app and I just haven’t found it yet, but a battery indicator per device would be very helpful. I realize the cameras should have a significant battery life, but it seems like a no-brainer to be able to understand how battery life is affected with different settings activated.

[Haloweenhamster]

This what you mean?

[calafountaine]

I would love to see the thumbnail update with the last recorded motion event. This would give a quick view when you open the app of what is going on. For instance, I can open the app quickly and see that the mail man triggered the alert.

[jon44]

Erm… of course I have!

[jon44]

A rain shield please! At the moment my cameras just get rained on and then raindrops prevent me from viewing the image clearly. Even my cheapo IP outdoors IP cameras have the lens protected.

[AnkerSupport]

What happened to Apple Home Kit? still in works? or dead?

We are still evaulating Home Kit, but we will most likely not have this as an addition. With that being said, Alexa and Google support will be avaliable before the end of 2019!

Be able to change the sound notification on my Android phone to a specific one so i know when there’s an alert. I can’t tell whether it’s an alert or email or ‘default’ sound.

You should be able to change your notification preferences in your Android settings!

Home/away assist as per Nest in that it knows when your phone (and/or another family member) is at home/away and be able to switch off/on the alerts maybe coupled with a ‘night’ mode so that if you’re at home it can automatically set the alerts when it’s night? Not thought it through properly maybe but please add thoughts?

It was said that the Eufy app includes Geofencing. I can’t see this anywhere. It is a hsssle to turn the camera on and off each time you leave and renter the house. When will this feature be added?

Thanks for the feedback! In terms of geofencing- we’re looking to add this functionality in Jan. of 2019!

I would like to have a camera with a narrow field of view and also a pan/tilt zoom capable camera.

Thanks for the feedback!

This may already be present somewhere in the app and I just haven’t found it yet, but a battery indicator per device would be very helpful. I realize the cameras should have a significant battery life, but it seems like a no-brainer to be able to understand how battery life is affected with different settings activated.

There are battery indicators in the app! @Haloweenhamster took some great screenshots of where they are located:

A rain shield please! At the moment my cameras just get rained on and then raindrops prevent me from viewing the image clearly. Even my cheapo IP outdoors IP cameras have the lens protected.

Thanks for the feedback! Forwarded!

[Pilkie]

+1 a cheap ‘clip-on’ rain shield sounds like something that could be created fairly easily for a company like Eufy (Anker).

[Pilkie]

Two more 'quality of life changes I guess we could add:

1. Option to highlight the motion the camera detects (e.g. square box around the motion) so you can see it… Just watched a video my cam recorded and had to rewatch it a few times until I saw the cat …

2. In portrait mode, you can swipe from one video to the next. In landscape mode you can’t do this, so you have to come out of landscape, change video, and then go back in… It would be good to just be able to swipe through them all in landscape.

[Ice1]

Thanks for the response on Apple HomeKit!!
Sad to know it is not attainable. Most of the Apple users will really like to have this so they feel more secured and there is no need to add an additional hub if they already dont have one.
Hope you would re-consider to evaluate this option as this is going to attract Apple users.[quote=“AnkerSupport, post:30, topic:63877, full:true”]

What happened to Apple Home Kit? still in works? or dead?

We are still evaulating Home Kit, but we will most likely not have this as an addition. With that being said, Alexa and Google support will be avaliable before the end of 2019!

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[Ice1]

I assume you meant “Alexa and Google support will be avaliable Before end of 2018 !!”
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not 2019

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We are still evaulating Home Kit, but we will most likely not have this as an addition. With that being said, Alexa and Google support will be avaliable before the end of 2019!

[Hmee]

Monitor and manage all devices from desktop PC
When will this feature be accessible.
Most wanted.

[Eufy_Spark]

How about a movement sensor, that would really add to the eufy security system, and an external siren. With these two you could have a full alarm system (If we had an alternative to disabling the system via a phone)

[AnkerSupport]

I assume you meant “Alexa and Google support will be avaliable Before end of 2018 !!” **

not 2019

you are correct, our mistake

[Pug50]

At risk of having the whole Internet scream out in pain because portrait video is the worst evil in the universe, I would like support in the app for recording portrait video - I have a camera on the wall to one side of my front door, monitoring the front of the house. The best coverage is achieved by turning the camera 90 degrees on its axis. This avoids half the picture being wall. Putting the night-vision LEDs furthest from the wall also means that splashback from the wall doesn’t ruin nighttime exposure.

At the very least, the ability to reorient the timestamp. The app should default to “fullscreen” viewing for a portrait camera on a phone, and there should be the option of 90 or 270 degrees rotation from “normal” to allow for all mounting options. If possible, native recording of portrait video to the microSD so that the file is 1080x1920 etc.

Also, much more configuration for the timestamp would be great: The current 1.0.5.9 fw in 1.0.5(EU) app renders ten minutes past midday as “00:10 PM” for the GMT+0 London timezone.

[AnkerSupport]

Thanks for the suggestion in terms of the orientation.

There are others that are looking for this feature too, so you’re not alone ( ;

Also, much more configuration for the timestamp would be great: The current 1.0.5.9 fw in 1.0.5(EU) app renders ten minutes past midday as “00:10 PM” for the GMT+0 London timezone.

We have a new firmware version which should be pushed to your device very soon! It’s version 1.0.6.4!

[Springfield]

Need to be able to set different motion sensitivity for Home and Away modes.