Most outdoor security cameras come with two hidden costs that show up after the purchase: a monthly subscription to access your footage, and an electrician to run a cable to wherever you actually need the camera but the eufy SoloCam S220 skips both. The single camera is $59 on Amazon, down from its regular $99, and the 2-cam pack drops to $119 from $199, both at 40% off and both at their lowest prices ever. No wiring, no monthly fee, no ongoing cost of any kind.
Solar power and local storage solve the two biggest problems with outdoor cameras
The SoloCam S220 charges itself from sunlight and only needs three hours of sun per day to keep running continuously, which in practice means it never needs to be taken down to charge and never dies overnight. The wire-free design means you mount it wherever coverage actually matters – the corner of a garage, above a side gate, facing a driveway – rather than wherever an outlet happens to be. Installation is a single hole in the wall, once, and then it’s done. The camera connects over 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, so there’s no hub or base station required for basic operation, though it’s compatible with HomeBase 3 if you want to expand into a larger eufy system later.
The 2K resolution captures enough detail to make out faces and license plates during the day, and the f/1.6 aperture combined with four infrared LEDs handles night vision without washing everything out in a flat green tint. The 135-degree field of view covers a wide enough area that a single camera handles most entry points without needing to be repositioned. Human detection uses on-device AI to distinguish between a person walking through the frame and a tree branch moving in the wind, which cuts down on the false alerts that make most motion-triggered cameras more annoying than useful. When it does detect a person, the alert tells you whether it’s a family member, a courier, or someone unfamiliar.
The built-in 8GB of local storage means recordings go directly onto the camera itself, not to a cloud server that charges you monthly to access your own footage. That’s the real differentiator here. Ring, Nest, and most competitors require a subscription of $10 to $15 per month to do anything useful with recorded video. The eufy SoloCam S220 is a one-time purchase with no recurring cost attached to it which means the $59 price is actually the full price.
At $59 for one camera or $119 for two, the value stacks up quickly against any subscription-based alternative. Two months of a Ring subscription costs more than this camera, and the Ring still needs to be plugged in. With over 5,900 reviews at 4.2 stars and more than 2,000 units sold last month, the SoloCam S220 has the real-world track record to back up the spec sheet.
At 40% off, it’s the right time to sort out whatever part of your property you’ve been meaning to cover.