When discussing the security of your reptile room, building, or even just your home, surveillance cameras eventually come up. The idea of setting up cameras and being able to monitor them can seem daunting, but with todays technology it is as simple as a few easy steps. This is where WYZE Cam dominates the market.
WYZE Cam has a variety of household surveillance camera products, but for the sake of this review I am discussing the WYZE Cam Pan 1080P camera. It has a very sleek and simple design making it easy to disappear into your room of choice. With only the power cable to navigate this camera is very discreet and unobtrusive. You plug it in, press a button on the bottom of the unit, type in your Wifi access, and using the WYZE App you simply scan the provided QR code in front of the camera lens. That’s it. With the app you can monitor multiple cameras and set up notification settings, smoke detector alarms, motion detection, person detection, and many more other preferences. This camera also has access to cloud storage and can carry micro SD card memory as well. Ultimately the product brings peace of mind and another perspective for you to observe your animals without bothering them.
I currently run two of these units in my snake room. One is for the general room layout observation. I can put my thermometer in view of the camera and ensure the climate is where I like it remotely. I can also see if a snake were to escape its enclosure or if someone were to break in and steal anything. The picture quality is fantastic, and I can hear and speak back and forth through the camera as needed as well. This also makes for some fun prank potential.
The second camera I currently have set up inside one of my adult female carpet python enclosures. I intend on observing her behavior during this breeding season as well as watching her lay her clutch. With any luck she will also be allowed to maternally incubate her eggs should she produce. I hope to observe any specific maternally driven behaviors using this camera in my attempt to better understand the incubation process of these pythons. The camera is small enough and the cable is flat enough to fit into the corner of her enclosure and view the entire space without disturbing the snake.
Overall, I give the WYZE Cam Pan 1080P a 4.5 out of 5 rating. The only thing that is less than perfect is the noise the camera creates when swiveling back and forth. It is very minimal, but when working in the snake room and the camera is following me around non-stop, it sounds as if the camera is working a lot and makes just enough noise of the gears turning to catch my attention. I tend to turn the camera off if I plan on working in the snake room for any length of time for this reason. Otherwise, it has everything that I wanted in a camera for my snake room and I highly recommend them for their quality and ease of use.
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