Eve Outdoor Cam – Secure floodlight Camera, Maximum Security & Privacy (HomeKit Secure Video), 1080p, Night Vision, Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz), Motion Sensor, Two-Way Communication, People/pet/Vehicle Detection

This is a great product, easy to install with the App as long as your near a WiFi signal. Easy to setup streaming on your iCloud account and you can stream through all motion detection events. No monthly streaming fee if you discount your iCloud account which is pretty cheap. Physically it is a little difficult to mount and does not accommodate your standard round metal junction box so if your planning on mounting near one of these you’ll have to remove it. I’ve used other camera’s for HomeKit and their all terrible, intermittent streaming, login issues, constantly logging you out, won’t stream captured events, the list goes on. This camera has NONE of those problems, it works reliably and flawlessly and I think is the only one that actually streams to iCloud which is secure and reliable. Great purchase and buying more of them!

Just giving my personal opinion based on a very poor product experience: I purchased the Eve Outdoor Camera in January 2024 and got it installed by an electrician. The first month, it worked great. It picked up motion and turned the lights at nights, and I could do automations. The good times were short lived as I began experiencing issues with the unit: it would randomly loose connection to my wifi or HomeKit. If I had to reset my wifi internet: it lost connection. If there was a small loss of power due to weather: the camera looses connection. Contacting customer service has mostly gotten me the "press the reset button" answer. Guess what? That reset pinhole is super annoying to activate. Only needles are small enough to git in the pinhole to reset in my experience. The camera is installed about 8ft in the side of my house, so it is extremely annoying to just have to do this procedure all the time. Additional Warning: Eve is based in Germany and they DO NOT HAVE US-Customer Service Available. If you want technical help, you'll have to email them. Because of the time difference this will mean that having a simple conversation about how to reset the unit will take you several days. I am frustrated. Of course Amazon now says it's outside the return window and cannot return. Im stuck with a very pricey unit that it's not even working...go with a Ring Product instead.

If you're looking for a HomeKit Secure Video camera that works right out of the box without having to sign up for some third-party app/service, this is the camera you'll want. I see some folks have complained about getting these installed in North American homes, but it appears Eve now supplies the adapter plate in the box from the get-go instead of having to request it separately from their website. (That said... if you bought one & it didn't include the adapter plate, you can reach out to Eve's customer service. They'll hook you up with one for free if you're in the US.) Installation was straightforward enough. Post-installation, the camera's been flawless with no downtime whatsoever. As always, a smart home with smart accessories requires good WiFi coverage. I have my home blanketed with Nest WiFi points, for reference. HomeKit is running in my home with an Apple TV 4K acting as the hub (via WiFi, not ethernet). If you are having WiFi issues, try to improve your WiFi signal where the camera is located. Build quality is also solid. It seems robust & well-designed to withstand the elements. The camera doesn't go offline even in the extreme summer heat we just dealt with in the US Southeast. That's been an issue with my Logitech Circle View Doorbell, so I'm glad to see Eve accounted for high temperature operation. Video quality could be better, but I chalk that up to a HomeKit Secure Video limitation. Until Apple allows for 1080p+ video quality on HomeKit, we're stuck with 1080p as the maximum. Video quality as-is is sufficient to make out cars, faces, animals, etc. You may miss finer details (like car license plates) at a distance due to the low 1080p resolution, however. The viewing angle is very wide, which should allow for total coverage of your driveway (as an example) from one installation point. Audio & speaker quality is also good. I can clearly hear outside noises & make out what visitors are saying from my iPhone. Audio output from the camera itself is also good, with visitors able to clearly understand what I'm saying from my iPhone. Night vision is also good, with the built-in IR doing its job in providing nighttime visibility for the camera without having to activate the floodlights. When the floodlights do activate, they're quite bright! In fact, they're brighter than my old "dumb" floodlights that were replaced with this Eve camera. Brightness can be modified on a scale via the Eve app, with an extra bright option available for short periods of time. The floodlight can be setup to turn on only when it detects motion (in general) or specific motion (from cars, animals, people, etc.). It's the standard fare that you'd expect from a HomeKit camera. You can modify the usual settings from Apple's Home app, with additional options available via the Eve app. (The Eve app does not require a separate signup/login.) Overall, I like this camera very much. I haven't tried the other outdoor HomeKit camera options (other than the aforementioned Logitech Circle View Doorbell) so I can't provide a proper comparison, but I can certainly say that I'd be happy to purchase another one of these in the future if I decide to expand my HomeKit camera coverage. Edit: As of 4/29/25, my thoughts on this camera have not changed. Everything I wrote before still applies. I'm now coming up on nearly two years of this camera and I've had zero issues to report. For those wondering if I still recommend this camera... I do!

I had an old outdoor light I replaced with the Eve Outdoor Cam, but considering I had an outlet box with an opening larger than the mounting ring, and that the mounting ring required a flat wall to attach it to with anchors & screws, I had to figure out another way to mount it to the wall. I ended up buying a raised metal black mounting plate and drilled holes in it for mounting the camera. Also had to find different screws to attached the plate to the outlet box, and then the camera to the mounting plate. All of these efforts were required because the device is delivered with only one means of mounting the camera/light to a wall. There should be other options included in the box but are not. Once I managed to get the plates and device mounted, it was very difficult to move the main wires from the camera into the mounting ring area and then to push all the wires (after connected to the camera from the house current) into the housing. It turned out to be a two person job as holding the camera in place and not breaking the plastic mounting rings in this process was necessary. (Also, the instructions don't communicate in layman's terms which wire is the ground wire etc... so I called my electrician for advice). Once hooked up and turned on, the device works really well, excellent video quality and quick responsiveness in HomeKit and the Eve home app. If you have a VPN running the video may not play ( I had the Eve Home app on my iPad with a VPN running and it would not show the video, but when turned off, it came right up as it did on my other devices that didn't have a VPN running. I have other Ring Spotlight cams around my home that are mounted hanging from underside of my home eves. I wish this device could replace them, but the Eve Outdoor Cam can only mount on a vertical wall and can't be tilted far enough to suspend from an overhang roof eve where many homes have outdoor light fixtures already in place. Ring did a better job on this, but I hope Eve's other similar ring type spotlight cameras can be made to work with HomeKit... I would get two of them immediately.

I am happy with this product. The camera works well and was easy to set up with homekit. The light is also nice - very bright. I ended up buying a second unit and look forward to using it. I’ve also been impressed with the night vision on this. I’ll mention that the exterior lights I replaced this with were mounted directly on the wall and not to a junction box so I didn’t have to worry about that. Installation was a bit tricky but certainly doable. The trickiest part for me was mainly due to the very short electrical cables at the position I was installing it.

I bought this to replace a Ring Floodlight Cam because I wanted the HomeKit functionality. Once you get past installation, it's fine, but... this was really tough to install compared to the Ring. Eve does seem to provide a mounting plate now that I get the sense from other reviews might not have been included before. That went on fine. Attaching the next part to that was ok, though you need to compress the foam a bit to accommodate the screw heads from the initial mounting plate. Later, getting the allen screw in that holds the camera to the mount was brutal because of limited visibility and clearance. I ended up accepting that I just had to making little 1/16th of a rotation turns off the screw with the allen key. Then, there's also very little clearance to connect the wires. I think whomever designed this attachment system failed to consider that people usually need to do this standing on a ladder, making holding up the camera while lining up a screw and then getting the wrench in very tricky. I'd suggest two ladders and two people, honestly, so one can hold the camera in and one can fiddle with the allen wrench and screw using both hands. In contrast, the Ring had two posts onto which you could slide the camera, where it would stay without being held, and then you just put on the external nuts. The Eve is a little prettier and cleaner once installed, but Ring's install is much simpler.

Camera doesn't stay connected and is basically useless. When it works it looks great, but in the real world, where the camera is not sitting next to your router or modem, it sucks. Also, since it disconnects from network so frequently, another major drawback is that the reset button is extremely poorly disigned. Also this camera is a real hassle to install. Poor design ruins a cool looking camera.

Update 1: After about a week of use now, I’m only further disappointed in, and frustrated with, this cam. A few additional items to note: - Camera: The camera is so terrible that unless you’re within about 10 feet of it, you’ll never be able to make anything out such as faces or license plates. I get that perhaps this wasn’t designed for distant, garage application, but it should be at least capable enough to deliver a clear center image rather than a pixelated mess. - Sound: I didn’t comment on this before, but it’s just as terrible as everything else. There is seemingly no noise control (ANR) built into this cam, so every recording (or live view) is just background noise. This can likely be fixed via firmware update, but will require attention of someone at Eve that knows anything about audio programming. - Motion Detection: The motion detection and light activation is delayed by a few seconds compared to my neighbor’s Ring floodlight cam (which is far superior in every way btw, except for privacy). I’m not happy with the fact that there just isn’t much positive to say about this cam, but alas here we are. I’ll likely just return it and replace it with a POE camera and good led light. Original Review: Let’s face it, the only reason anyone is at all interested in this camera is for its HomeKit integration and Eve’s promise not to harvest/sell user data (who knows…). As such, this fills a much needed gap, given most manufacturers have shunned HomeKit because they wouldn’t get to be greedy creeps and voyeurs and harvest your biometric data for either profit or the CCP. With that said, there’s a lot left to be desired with this camera. And I mean A LOT! It’s plain sad that in 2022 this is all we have to look forward to. Shame on Apple for not having done better by now to get into the IOT world with HomeKit and leaving up to tiny (but well-meaning) companies like Eve to eek it out in this overcrowded market. Having just received and installed this cam, this will be a brief overview, with more to follow once I have a bit more time with it. The Good: 1. Build quality. Kudos to Eve on the nice design and overall quality. Though it may be inspired by another brand, I’m not personally familiar enough with it to evaluate the similarities and differences between the two. This is made in Taiwan, which is a major plus. The Bad: 1. Everything else! Eve really had an opportunity to make major waves with this, but IMO failed tremendously. They also failed to recognize that many HomeKit fans are into advanced tech and are more critical and discerning, and will recognize a bad product. I wonder whether this was ever market-tested (unlikely). In fact, there’s so much bad, I simply don’t have the time/energy to write it now, and feel Eve may have to pay consultancy fees for it. I’ll briefly list some fails: - Camera. Well, Eve might well be limited by Apple (stupidly) to 1080p, but it’s still a terrible camera with an awful lens. Heck, my 720p baby monitor displays a better image on a crappy display. - Light. While the integrated light and IR work okay and has a good color temperature, “boost mode” should be the standard brightness. Why limit it? And why not integrate a cable to jump an add-on light. In other words, it’s an okay light for a small entryway, but don’t expect it to “light up the night” as Eve marketing claims. - Mount. The mount is only okay if you have a smooth surface with a cable sticking out of the wall. Any rough surface (brick, siding, etc.) and the rubber gasket is useless. Why not include a junction box plate? That’s a major miss, especially in the US market. - HomeKit. Again, the ONLY reason I’d even look at this is for the secure/private HomeKit integration. As such, why force the Eve app on users? I, for one, don’t care how many times you claim to ensure privacy and security. Just don’t do it! (And please Apple, stop forcing us to allow every silly app to access ALL of the Home data. That’s insanity! - Color. There should be a white color option. Seriously, everyone else does this in white. Have you looked at ANYTHING? - WiFi. Come on, it’s 2022. Just give us 5ghz and stop the silly argument that it’s not great for an outdoor device. Nonsense! This is a “premium” device. And every premium outdoor camera today has dual-band WiFi. Again, HomeKit people will likely figure out WiFi extenders, mesh networks, and Thread. Stop playing us for fools! - Stickers. Eve includes two stickers that are supposed to be posted, I guess (well, one in Spanish, which is about the same thing)… (see image). It’s quite pathetic. Almost like an insult. Surely, you could come up with a better way of communicating to would-be trespassers that they’re on camera… Well, I guess I did end up writing quite a bit here. Hopefully this helps. I’m sure there will be many paid shills on YT “unboxing” this, but figured I’d add my actual “verified” experience with it. P.S. Seriously, the first manufacturer that just makes one of their existing devices available for HomeKit (up-charge it, I don’t care), will have all the business.

Let’s start with design, it’s a small device with big capabilities, I went with black. It has a really nice finish and has that apple-seque quality. The LED light takes up most of the space with the camera and microphone taking up the rest. I love the simplicity of the device and the fact it’s hard wired. Next mounting, I have read issues with mounting on a number of reviews, and whilst it took a little more thought, the junction box adaptor works on all types (the bracket is free from Eve if needed) we decided to remove the junction box for the aesthetics and that did make it a little easier but if you follow the video installation you can’t go wrong. All in took about an hour to from old fitting and junction and remount the Eve Outdoor Cam. Then setup, I think once powered on it was a simple quick process through the Eve app and linking to Apple Home for HomeKit. Super easy. The video quality is 1080p so nothing super high definition but it’s adequate for a security camera, it offers great night vision with or with out the assistance of the light. The light is very very bright, currently I have it set to 5% and the is enough illumination for my front lawns , walkway and porch. 100% or boost is almost blinding. Finally connectivity, so it’s been up for over 2 weeks now and had no issues with dropping wifi or not connecting, it is set up to only notify for an activity zone and it works perfectly (tested thoroughly). Unit has been down to -15C and works like normal. Overall the cost is a little higher but for HomeKit I think it’s one of the nicest options and offers value as it is a light and camera (with a microphone) so in my can it’s used like a door bell camera. I have to say that I fully recommend this product.

I am a big Eve fan but these outdoor cameras were a huge disappointment. We purchased three and paid an electrician to install them. They are completely unreliable in every respect. They frequently go offline at random intervals, often for extended periods (despite more than adequate Wi-Fi signals). They routinely fail to detect motion, etc., and thus don't record events. In addition to the above, it's important to note that these must be hardwired into your electrical system and thus require an electrician (or significant handyman skills) to install, which can significantly add to the expense. Like all Eve products, these are easy to install via the Eve app and to configure there and in HomeKit. The fundamental problem is that they're completely unreliable. I would recommend the eufy S3 Pro or Aqara G5 Pro as much better options. Both are significantly cheaper and far more reliable.

The quality looks real good and it works well . It included everything you need to install including the mounting plate. I found it easier to install if you removed the camera bracket and feed the wire through and installed the c clip . The instruction book is very small and the print hard to read. It took about a half hour to install camera , ten minutes to bypass light switch and about fifteen minutes to install software and setup. The system is quite expensive , but if it lasts a long time i do think it is a good investment. The picture looks good and the light also works well. I would recommend and buy again at this point.

The picture and sound quality are very impressive. Installation was standard and it connected to my HomeKit with little hassle (had to do a hard reset before my phone would pick it up, however I was having electrical issues anyways and I believe it would of been turned on and off several times while that was being fixed). The only complaint I have, is I wish they would have made the installation box square instead of circle, since the standard light box that is recessed into the way (not noticeable) is square. I had to carve a bit of wood away to have it fit into the old space. I know they made it circle because of the security feature but I think there could have been a better way. I did notice a couple of times when I’ve opened my Home app, that the camera “is not responding” … my Logitech doorbell does this as well. I upgraded my Internet in hopes to correct the issue but it didn’t work. I just purchased a wifi extender in hopes that’ll help. Overall happy with this purchase and would buy again.

While the motion detection and light works well, and the fixture has a more subtle camera look (which initially drew me to purchase it), the camera constantly disconnects and fails to record. Over all very disappointed. I should have listened to the other reviews, and stayed away from this one.