Home security cameras are usually good at getting a wide shot of your yard and whatever’s passing through it — but a new camera can help you get a close-up on your visitors, too.
This outdoor security cam adds a second camera that moves and zooms
Both cameras pair with a solar panel to keep the whole thing charged up and wire-free.
Both cameras pair with a solar panel to keep the whole thing charged up and wire-free.
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Tapo’s new HybridCam Duo camera sticks two cameras together: a more traditional security camera with a wide-angle lens, plus a second camera that can pan, tilt, and zoom in to capture details.
Both cameras capture 4K footage that gets stored locally and processed using an on-device AI system for person, vehicle, and pet detection. The cameras are battery-powered, and they can be paired with a solar panel to keep them running indefinitely, so long as you’ve got the weather for it.
Tapo didn’t share many details beyond that, so pricing and availability are still TBD.
Other companies offer pan-and-tilt cameras with zoom lenses for tracking movement and capturing detail. Other companies also offer dual-lens security cameras to put zoom and wide-angle capture into a single unit. But companies don’t usually stick two cameras together quite as literally as Tapo has done here.
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
