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The design of the eufy security S100 Wired Wall light Cam is a little different than what I typically see in our local home store, it has a much more modern styling with its tall design which has LED lighting sections at the top and bottom of the light with the motion sensors, microphone, speakers, and camera all packed into the center of the light. Like with the mounting base, the light itself is all plastic with white diffused plastic covering the LED lights at the top and bottom. The bottom light also has the eufy security branding on it which along with the camera in the center are the two main indications that this is a camera, not just a light.
Sitting between the two lights the S100 Wired Wall Light Cam has a glossy section of plastic that hides the built-in PIR sensor or passive infrared sensor. Like with other eufy cameras, they use the PIR sensor to pick up motion which for the S100 can help turn the light on and combined with the camera also helps filter out other motion when needed to limit alerts and recording to only when a human is in view. The PIR has a range of 30 feet. There are pinholes on both sides of the camera for microphones and then in the center is the 2K camera. The 2K camera has a resolution of 2048×1536 (aka 2K) and a field of view of 160° which is wide. They have the camera angled down to help cover in front of the light. For video storage, the S100 has its storage built in. You get a total of 4GB eMMC inside which gets you up to 25 days of coverage. This isn’t expandable and doesn’t work with the older Homebase 2 or new Homebase 3 which is surprising. The camera, as well as the lighting controls, then all connect wirelessly with wireless 2.4 Ghz, sadly 5 GHz isn’t supported and along those same lines WPA2 is supported but WPA3 isn’t. WPA3 is rarely seen on any smart devices, but given that they are outside and more vulnerable to attacks which WPA3 helps protect from it would be a nice addition in the future.
The S100 is 15.9 inches tall 4.3 inches wide at the base and 3.2 inches wide for the light itself. From the mounting base to the tip of the camera it is 5.3 inches and 4.75 without the base. The base has a rounded corner square design which is 4.3 inches wide and tall which if you have a mounting block means that it will mount to most traditional light mounting blocks and will fit over a round outside electrical box as well.
I wanted to touch a little more on the styling difference between the S100 and what is available for me in rural Ohio and this could be significantly different depending on where you live. But the below picture shows the top-selling lights at our local Menards. The old fashion barn light is at the top and almost everything else available is a cheap jelly jar or lantern-style light. The S100 is a big departure from that. I wouldn’t consider that to be a fault, but I am concerned that it might be a little too modern of a design compared to what is on the market and selling right now. For me, the bigger concern is the plastic construction, simply for longevity which is one of the main things I've considered when buying other outside lights. I look for a design that is metal and won't become brittle or with white plastics that yellow. I only buy lights with glass for that reason because even out of the sunlight the lights themselves will eventually yellow a lot of plastics. Then because we keep outside lighting on a lot I also only buy lights with an open bottom because even the most sealed designs manage to get and fill up with tiny bugs over time. All three of those things the S100 doesn’t do. Only time will tell how it will hold up, but it does break my normal rules. Eufy does list the S100 to be rated to handle -4°F - 122°F for temperatures and a product lifespan of 60,000 Hours which is 6 years.
The S100 does have small speaker openings on both sides for the built-in speakers. It supports two-way communication with the microphone and speakers like all of their outside cameras. It also has the built-in alarm which will sound a 105 dB alarm and flash the light to scare off a burglar. This also gives a good look at how the light itself stands slightly away from the base.
The back of the S100 has a few things going on. The biggest is the back of the lights which share the same carved out shape as the front only with angled groves cut into the shape. Then in the center, the mounting base is where eufy has hidden all of the warnings, model information, and certification logos. There is one large opening that has three metal pins, this is where the wiring block on the base plugs into the light. There are two other openings that line up with clips on the base for each side. There is a second foam gasket which runs around this whole section, like on the mounting base as well to keep moisture out of this important area. That said the one area in which water could get in is covered with a rubber plug. This pulls out and has a micro-USB plug and a small pinhole push button used to sync the S100 with the app when setting things up.
Going into this my first concern with the S100 Wired Wall Light Cam was that the camera didn’t have any adjustment to it at all along with the fact that eufy doesn’t offer a matching non-camera model for houses that have two lights on either side of their door which isn’t out of the ordinary. As it turns out the S100 does pivot from side to side which you can see in the pictures below. This gives the camera at least some flexibility and can also help with the dual light situation by at least letting you cover more area if you have to run two lights where two lights facing directly forward would have almost the same area. Of course, tilting would make the modern design look a little weird if the lights weren’t parallel to the wall and they thought of that as well. Both the top and bottom lights can spin 359 degrees only stopping to prevent you from spinning it around more than once and messing up the wiring inside I would imagine. This means if you tilt the camera you can adjust the lights but it also means that you can change up the lighting style as well. Flipping them around facing the wall can give a more diffused effect and if you want you can do half and half as well.
