This is a user review of the SOLIOM S600 Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor WIFI 2.4GHz [24/7 Record] with 20W Solar Panel, 20000mAh Batt.
I am not connected with Soliom nor compensated for my reviews. I use products in my real-world experience and tell you, good or bad, what I think of them. I don’t do unboxings or lists of functions and features or fancy videos, you can get that elsewhere. I tell you why I bought something and if it satisfies my need or not.
My use case: I watch wildlife in my yard on video. I am disabled, in a wheelchair, and live in snow country… the mountains of north-central PA. I can’t easily get out to my backyard on a good day and in the snowy/muddy months I cannot get out there at all. I need a remotely-operated video system that allows me to watch wildlife attracted to my backyard deer feeder. A system that is set-and-forget, meaning no trips to do maintenance. In bad weather once I set up a camera in the Fall I often cannot get back to it until Spring due to mud. If any part of the system fails it will have to wait until the ground dries in late March before I can get my wheelchair back to that location, so I need dependability more than most.
I have a number and variety of game trail cameras placed throughout the forest that send still images via cellular or that record video to an SD card, and I have an internet-accessible Lorex wired video security NVR system with eight CAT-6 wired cameras surrounding my feeder station. This means that I have cables and power cords strung out across my yard. I wanted to get the same live 24/7 video experience that the wired Lorex system provides but without the wires that have to be taken up when cutting grass, using a solar-powered WiFi signal with cloud storage in a system that I could afford.
I tried a number of Wi-Fi trail camera brands that could give me parts of what I wanted but the Soliom S600 is the only system I found that gives me everything I want at a price I can afford. Reolink was close but the recording time and battery life were limited.
This Soliom S600 is a complete solar-powered Wi-Fi remote video system. Together with its included high-capacity solar battery and cell phone app software this camera system is designed for remote viewing anywhere a Wi-Fi signal can be acquired. It requires no other power than the solar panel and does not work with cellular data.
I have had it for a while now, mounted on a stepladder in my yard to see how it works before buying more of them. The outdoor cameras’ Wi-Fi connection covers the ~100′ distance from my indoor internet router without connection drops or need for a router signal extender.
As shown in the pictures attached the S600 mounts easily with screws or zip-tie straps. As with any solar battery you MUST charge it fully using the provided USB-A to micro USB-C cable before setting this system up. With all cameras I do the unboxing, get familiar with the components and plug it in overnight. While the system charges I read the literature on how to set it up and operate it but I reiterate; if you rush to set it up without a full 10-hour first charge you will not get the best service from any solar battery.
After the initial charge the setup could not be simpler – mount the camera and solar panel, connect the cable between them and turn it on. Install the Soliom+ app and follow a few prompted steps to connect to the camera via your home Wi-Fi signal. During setup the account creation process will guide you thru choices to record to a local MicroSD card or pair to Wi-Fi to access the cloud storage. That’s it. You’re done.
For my testing I set this camera up on a six-foot stepladder about twenty-five feet from my solar-operated deer feeder that is suspended from a twenty-foot-high tripod. Sensitivity is fast and excellent: as soon as a deer, duck or rabbit moves in my yard the camera turns on (if you aren’t doing continuous recording) and does its thing. Sensitivity is adjustable, I have it at max, and this camera captures the smallest bird movement out to an impressive distance.
I placed the solar panel above the camera to get full sun and to keep snow off the camera lens and after weeks of continuous watching on the Soliom+ app and recording 24/7 to the cloud the battery remains at 100%. I have turned on the spotlight and let it record continuously for hours even though that is not normal use. Unlike my other Wi-Fi or cellular systems it does not run down and shut off, and a day’s bright sun brings the battery back to full in a few hours.
The Soliom S600 is among the quietest remote video camera I have used. Curious deer looking at it from mere inches away have not spooked when I manually panned or zoomed the camera or captured still images, which is pretty amazing. Being quiet helps avoid curious animals’ attention, and being built tough out of quality materials (except for lightweight plastic mounting brackets, my only complaint) helps keep animals like raccoons from tearing it apart, but at this affordable price point when a bear climbs the tree and chews it up you can afford to replace it.
Image resolution is good, it is exactly as advertised and what you expect from inexpensive home security cameras suitable for short-distance security camera work. It only has ??? magnification zoom but to do any better with a remote solar system you have to spend a whole lot more money. My cameras which are capable of police-quality facial recognition and fast car tag identification cost thousands. You won’t get that quality from the S600 but then it’s not made for those purposes. If you want to receive a text message when UPS drops a package on your porch and want to watch that package to be sure it stays on the porch or see which neighborhood kid took it, the S600 is perfect for that.
Not having to run cables through your walls is a huge savings plus it can be installed anywhere by anyone with only a screwdriver.
For my limited use case, watching wildlife in my yard, I am very pleased with the Soliom S600 Wi-Fi camera. It does what I need at a price I can afford, and that’s all I can ask. I can confidently deploy this camera to any area with Wi-Fi and do not see any reason that I should have to go back to it for a very long time except to perhaps clean the lens of pollen. For my use this camera is a keeper.
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