Outdoor lights and security cams are pretty common fixtures in many people’s smart home setups. It gives you an easy way to keep an eye on the yard at all times. The Wyze Bulb Cam combines both in a single smart home solution, allowing you to install two outdoor security essentials in one fell swoop.
That’s right, they decided to combine a smart light bulb and a security cam in a single device. Even better, the whole thing is meant to install like a regular light bulb, so you simply screw it onto an open E26 socket to instantly send power to both, making it incredibly convenient to set up.
The Wyze Bulb Cam takes the classic light bulb form factor and removes the rounded section at the end of the bulb. Instead, they attached a camera to that end, allowing them to cleverly combine both devices in a single form factor. It’s equipped with an 800-lumen, 3000-lumen LED bulb that should offer adequate illumination for your outdoor space, allowing it to brighten up your nighttime footage, so you can see everything clearly. The light, by the way, has a UL Damp rating, so it’s safe to use in outdoor areas that are regularly exposed to moisture and condensation, although they caution against leaving it open to direct water contact.
Like other smart LED bulbs, you can customize the brightness and set schedules via the app, allowing you to easily control the illumination anywhere you are, while also coming with motion sensors that automatically activate the light when triggered. It can pair with the outfit’s other LED bulbs, too, allowing you to synchronize operations for up to five of them at a time. Simply put, it’s designed to work like any contemporary smart outdoor lighting, albeit with a full-size camera attached to it.
The Wyze Bulb Cam uses a 2K camera with a 160-degree field of view, allowing it to capture daytime footage at 20 fps and nighttime footage at 15 fps. It has both color night vision and IR night vision, so it can take terrific night footage even with the lights out. There’s no optical zoom, though, so you’ll have to make do with digital magnification to see faraway subjects a little closer. The camera, by the way, can be adjusted slightly in height, rotated a full 360 degrees, and tilted up to 110 degrees, allowing you to manually position it exactly to your liking.
The camera saves its recordings to a local SD card loaded on the device, with the memory card slot supporting up to 256GB cards in exFAT format, although it also supports cloud storage via AWS if you have a Wyze Service subscription. The camera, by the way, has an IP65 water resistance rating, so you don’t have to protect it in the same way that the bulb requires. It supports two-way audio, too, with a built-in digital microphone and speaker. When it detects intruders, by the way, the system can activate a 95 decibel siren.
