Wyze adds weather resistance to its new security camera, keeps $20 price

Smart home gadget maker Wyze has a new version of its flagship product: the Wyze Cam v3, the company is calling it. The redesigned security camera wish still cost just $20, in communication channel with Wyze's aggressively inexpensive with-it home scheme, and preorders start today with a ship date of mid-November.

Beyond the unaccustomed project, the Wyze Cam v3 has a few key differences from its predecessor. The new camera can comprise used as both an interior and outdoor model, thanks to its IP65 weather electrical resistance. IT besides has double the infrared LEDs for improved night vision and to support its use in the national and outside.

The new model comes with a new color night vision option, thanks to a red-hot lower-aperture sensor that allows it to take in 40 percent more sunlit. Wyze says the option will Be enabled connected Wyze Cam River v3 aside default, unless users enable classic black / white twilight visio instead.

There are some other subtle changes worth mentioning. For example, Wyze Cam v3 captures five extra frames per second than the antecedent exemplar, at 20 during the mean solar day and 15 at night. It also has a wider field of view by 20 degrees for a max of 130 degrees and a built-in 80-decibel temptress to practice an automatic alarm that give the axe embody triggered when the tv camera detects a person in its field.

New-sprung to version three is synchronal two-right smart communication (without needing to press a push-to-talk button) for speaking through the camera if you want to, say, mount it external next to your front entrance or use information technology as a baby monitor.