2K Outdoor Camera from Baseus – Early Thoughts After Installation

What's up, guys? So, a friend of mine uh asked me to uh buy two cameras for him. So, I usually don't uh review cameras or at least uh it's been quite some time since I last reviewed a camera because honestly, I think they have gotten really boring. I mean, I do use cameras myself honestly. Uh here is like a list of cameras I am using. It's HQ plus. They were just installed previously and then I just kept rolling with them. There isn't a strong reason. See there are a bunch of cameras installed. Some are through DVR, some are new modern ones. It has two cameras inside it. One rotates 360°, one is wide angle that stays fixed. It is one camera with two lenses. You can see uh or one camera with two cameras whatever it makes sense. So if we go into it, if there are no reflections, you can see there is one down below. And if I rotate, I can see the one in the I see two. This is the first one. This is the second view. So, it has bunch of cameras. So, I use bunch of cameras. I just don't review them on this channel and the reason it pretty simple. I think they have gotten boring. But anyway, someone asked me and I looked around and uh I found this pretty interesting. The usually the cameras that are smart cameras that I have that I am using requires an SD card to be inserted directly inside them or there is a DVR that uses analog to connect with them. I have I don't have ones with the NVR. So this one these one are new. These are modern internet based and uh yet they have this centralized hub in which you can not only I think it should have come with a built-in storage but uh that storage expandable it is centralized. So the camera itself does not have a storage. They also looked cool and they were reach uh had batteries with them. I I don't think I have any camera that has batteries in it. So they claimed it can last you up to 210 days which is big claim. I'm not sure if it would live up to it but let's assume it lives up to half of that. It is still a good battery life. So 2K video recording 140 degree wide angle view. So bunch of thing it is uh it name is bas made by bas security and one outdoor camera. So it is two cam kit. I think there will be uh more as well but my requirement was just two. So, let's check it out quickly and see. It works with Alexa, Amazon uh and uh Amazon Alexa and Google Home. But honestly, I never care about these things. I never use them. So, I don't care if they work with Amazon Alexa or Google Home. I really don't care. Here you are. Solid packaging wise. Nothing in this is that can make you feel like it is a cheap or anything. And these are I I don't think these are even cheap. So you it is expected code packaging solid packaging cannot be damaged. So that's a good one. I just lifted it up and I can tell you that there is a significant weight to it. And the weight it's not that it is weight. It feels more like a premium weight. Something that you can hold in your hands. It feels like, hey, this thing is premium. It is not cheap. So, it's that kind of a weight. It has LEDs on top. This is camera. What is this? Probably infrared, but I'm not sure. And then we have type-C here. These are waterproof. So, that's why it is sealed here. These have speaker for two-way communication. See, we have type-C here. These are speaker for two-way communication. Screws to mount them. And uh pretty good looks good. In fact, this is the most beautiful camera I have ever ordered. Period. I would say that uh the as ones with that comes from as they do the job. They are significantly cheaper than these ones, but their plastic is not this premium. They requires an SD card to be inserted right into them and they don't look this good. Moving on. Other camera. Same as before. Nothing new here. This is the story that I found really interesting. The centralized one. Is it same as the NVR or is it different? I'm not sure. It says here bas security security H1 home station. So they're not calling it NVR. So not sure if it is a different technology. It takes it gives you 10. So it has an output input. It takes 24 volt uh 24 watt power. 24 watt right here. We'll see. Again, it has a weight giving it a premium feeling. You have the Ethernet port here. Then this is the power port and this is for the USB uh port I think in case you want to get data off of it. And this is alarm. So we have alarm option as well. If you come closely they have a sync alarm. We will see what sync sync probably will sync it to uh cloud or something and then then there will be alarm which should trigger some kind of alarm. So we will see about that. So these are all the ports. I can see that these are for heat dissipation. So maybe there is a fan or just simple heat dissipation. Okay, if I take it out, please switch off for safe drive insertion removal. So is there a drive here? I need to screw unscrew this one. So there seems to be some kind of drive inside it and we have to unscrew it to find out and get into it. Let's just Okay, this is magnetic. See, let's see what else is there here. I think there should be at least adapters or something like that. Again, this is not review video. I don't know what is coming inside it. So, my apologies in case you find this video too boring at too slow pace because I am just opening them up and giving you my impressions. There is no pre-work involved here. was I so we have the adapter one thing I would say that there is a theme to it you usually you don't find everything is white then black and the silver I mean there is a good theme here they could have made them any color but they feel premium look good ones so credit where it is due adapter is also a white color so again credit where it is due cable I'm not so sure what model What is it? Is it cat 6 or cat 8? It is cat 5e. Okay, this is USB A to type C. Is it one? Shouldn't there be two? I don't understand. I feel like there should be Why is there just one type A to type C cable? I'm confused. Also, I'm confused if it I had a feeling this would work with Wi-Fi, but now that I see it, I have a feeling it does not. If it does not, I will not be able to give it to the friend I mentioned. Maybe I did some poor research or something. Also, I'm confused like why is there just one type A to type C cable? We have some documentation here. Guide. Okay. We have some streakers. Rent guard. This is for installation or something like that. We'll see. And that's it. It does mention Wi-Fi, so hopefully it will have Wi-Fi. It It uses radio frequency to connect with the cameras. Each camera has a 2K resolution and the color night vision. It takes 10 watt input and it is IP67 waterproof. Each camera is IP67 waterproof. It does require hard drive which I not sure if I have I do have spare hard drive. So we are good in that regard. Okay. Okay. Okay. We have some screws here. This is for reset probably. Where is the reset button? This is the reset button. So, they send you a pin, some screws here. One thing that I would say I find strange is that these cameras need to be charged. I don't think they are equipped to be always connected to the power which was a use case I was looking forward to. I mean I was looking for a use case in which these will be battery kept in case the there is no power but I also wanted them to be connected with the power. So it can still be achieved but I don't think if it it is the right. Okay. So we have this. Okay. That's why there is one cable. Let's try to see what is inside it. This is where the drive will be installed. All right. So, this is where the drive will go. And I just verified it will be the 2.5 in HDD or SSD. Uh so, and it already has a built-in 16 GB memory. So, but if you want to expand it, you can expand it up to 16 terbte with again laptop sized version. You cannot install the PC hard drive inside it. So, just be aware that the PC version will not go. The laptop uh version of HDD or SSD will go here which is 2.5 in. But since we do have the built-in memory, we are good for in that regard. It is asking me to press sync. Let's do that for 5 seconds. And it says then it will start flashing. Pairing request. Press the sync button on the back to accept it. And it found it. [Music] and done. Now it's turn for the camera. So this hub session may connect to multiple cameras. We are looking for the N1 outdoor. So, we need to press the sync button for 5 seconds. It is flashing blue. Let's go. You need to ready to add the device. Add the device successfully. Let's set randomly and the video is here. But let's first set the other one. Add the other camera. One, two, three, four, five. Blinking blue. Home station. Ready to add the device. Pairing. Add the device successfully. And we have a video. We also have the Oh, there is audio. Again, these are two-way call cameras, so makes sense. Now, the question is, what if the home station goes offline? Will it still work? That's the question. So, let's remove the cable. And oh, let's see if I can still access the cameras. Now let's ignore the firmware update. Looks like it cannot. So at the end the only way to access these cameras is through the home hub station which is a disappointment. And if I go here with the same with other same with other audio quality is also good. Let me turn on the night vision here. Can I? So we have black wire. Let's turn on the spotlight one. That's not a good response time. So, it looks like it is intelligent enough to detect that lights are on. So, it is not Hello. Hello. Testing, testing, testing. Hey guys. So, this is the sound quality of the speaker that is inside one of these cameras. And uh I think the sound quality is neat. Uh it is clear and you can easily understand what other person is trying to say and it is loud enough. So let me show you other some other settings. You can see is camera. It has 70% battery life. You can turn it on or off here. Right now it is an optimal battery life. All motion detection. There will be multiple sensitivity activities on what kind of motion you want. For example, I can say I only want to detect human motion. Here you can adjust sensitivity. You can define area define which I'm not interested right now. Then we have the power management, optimal battery, power saving, optimal surveillance. All those settings are here. Video settings, you can say watermark. I don't want watermark. So turn off. What kind of night vision do you want? Black and white spotlight. That one privacy zones in case you want something to be not covered. You have the speaker and microphone volumes here. We have the notifications, general settings. This is status LED if you want to keep it on or off. And there are bunch of other settings. All the modern camera settings are here. The camera themselves are beautiful. They can connect to a hub which then and their storage is expandable. So, they will work even if you don't have I think they will work even if you don't have the internet, right? Yeah, I think they should. Let's go to the home station. It is also asking you to update it. Let's ignore it for now. It tells you that there are two cameras online right now. Two devices are to give you how much storage is occupied. We have the device sharing, audio settings, speaker volume, device sharing. So, first it was my uh understanding that uh you cannot use this home station without connecting it with an Ethernet port using a cable like this. But after going through the app, actually, I just figured it out that you can actually use it with Wi-Fi without this Ethernet port. But to first pair it uh you need to uh use this Ethernet port. So once you have paired it everything is done then actually you can go through the app and come to the connection settings right here and you can see that we have Wi-Fi network setup and configured Wi-Fi. So I have configured it. So if you come here, you will be able to see uh that you have the option to select it with Ethernet. Now that I have configured it, it uh again it will still work with Ethernet if you uh plug it in. It will always prefer Ethernet. But if you have configured the Wi-Fi, then if you remove this Ethernet cable, right now it is blue. If you can make it out, if I remove it, it should take a sec few seconds. As you can see, it is red now. It should take a few seconds to turn itself blue again to switch to Wi-Fi. Let's see if it does. Okay, there you are. Blue again. So, it switched to Wi-Fi. So, you can use it with Wi-Fi. You don't necessarily need it like this Ethernet cable forever, but first time you need it. It is still an issue for me. I would have liked if uh you did not need a Ethernet cable at all. You should have been able to configure it without Ethernet like many other cameras out there, smart cameras. But at least we have the option to connect it with the Wi-Fi. So that's good thing. So at the time of making this video, it is listed on AliExpress for around $1880. Yes, $180. And I think uh I find them a little pricey. I a person who uh go for value a lot and uh best value for money and I feel like they are uh these are on the pricey side. Uh so that is my opinion toward when it comes to price. But in terms of quality I always uh from the start when I picked them up I found them premium. There is a weight that comes with the premiumness. The plastic is really good. Everything is sealed. The sound quality, the camera quality, uh everything was good. Hardware provided was also good. And they claim a 210 days battery. Again, it is no not possible for me to verify it as I'm uh just making in a first impressions video. But quality is there. Uh if you say like, hey, do they even provide the quality they for the price they are asking for? I think the price is on the higher side, but the quality is still there. You have the 16 GB built-in memory. You can expand it if you would like. Ethernet plus Wi-Fi connection. These all connect wirelessly with it. They have spotlights in them and infrared quality was also good. The video quality was also good. So, I think even the sound test was really good. So, I think the quality is there. Just know that they are on the pricey side. So if you are able to find something better in low price, go for it. But if you can uh you think if something is good, you don't mind paying the price, then I wouldn't uh mind recommending them to you. So let me know what you think. Take care. Bye.