Let me start by saying I'm a Wyze fan and user. I have their Wyze Cam Pan cameras inside the house and I've been really happy with their motion detection, picture quality, etc. So this review comes from someone hoping the Outdoor Cams would be just as good.There are a few issues with outdoor cams which I'll list and hopefully help you understand where they fail.1. Field of view (night)Unless the camera is facing 180 degrees away from the wall where it's mounted, it's useless at night. Let me explain: As with most security cameras, these have a wide-angle lens. The problem is that if you are trying to capture activity along the side of your house for example, it will light-up the wall within the camera field of view and the dimmer areas become pitch-black. The result? You cannot see anything except your wall. See pic #12. Field of view (day) and motion detectionI am uncertain where the software logic places the most bias for motion detection to be picked up, recorded and then send you notification, but unless you are literally in the center of the picture waving your hands like crazy, it will not detect you. I have driven my car within the cameras range, walked in front of it, opened doors in front of it, and unless I happen to be in the correct place, nothing happens. What's really weird is if I click on the camera within the app I can view myself standing in front of the camera. Yet, no recording starts and no notification is sent. See pic #2 which is a person walking away from the camera after waving at it madly for about 60 seconds – it picked up none of that waving and started recording after the 'action' (which was a bonus, since it often does not turn on at all).3. Camera mountThe mounts themselves are ok, albeit the screws are too short if you're mounting on vinyl cladding. The real problem is that due to mounting the cameras above a burglar's reach, you need to aim the camera downwards to capture the view you want. This can be done with the mount, but it skews the picture rather than keeping it horizontal. Looking at picture #2 again, the reason that looks horizontal, is because the mount was fixed on the wall per pic #3.Because it's now at an angle, I feel I had to cable-tie it to make certain the camera will not be blown off by wind or knocked off by a burglar, especially after the magnetic base starts to lose some of its effectiveness. So, the mount's dexterity is not very good, the joints should have the ability to be manually tightened, and the mounting base should have as standard a bolt that can screw into the base of the camera which already has a pre-existing threaded opening.In short, the picture quality of the cameras is very good, but the utility of the camera does not extend to being a security camera. If you want a camera to look at your yard and admire it, or to mount on a tree and watch a bird's nest or watch your dog dig holes while you’re at work - these are great. But as a security product - they fail.All this and I still don't know what may happen when it rains, snows or the cameras are exposed to the New England heat and humidity. How good are the batteries?Lastly, Wyze customer service is polite but they find it hard to see what a consumer sees. A consumer more-often-than-not wants to buy a product, and in this case, mount it and start using it. It needs to be easy.If you contact Wyze customer service about an issue, they start making you WORK in order to get the result you want (for example): Have you upgraded to the latest firmware? Have you power cycled your battery? Have you checked A, B and C? etc. In a society where you plug and forget, they need to get a handle on making sure the consumer is satisfied from the time they open the box.These will be returned, since another issue is that they won't charge to 100%. The best I can get is 98% charge.Note: Just to be clear because I assume Wyze may see this review and question my ability to WORK at getting the desired result from the cameras...Yes - I have the latest firmwareYes - I power cycled the batteryYes - I tested the range of the wifi/signalYes - I fully charged the batteryYes - I removed the protective film from the lensYes - I have reached out to customer serviceYes - I have kept the cameras on day and night for multiple days and nothing has improved04/04/21A quick update on the remaining Outdoor cameras which I could not return as I'd bought them directly from Wyze and, as mentioned, Wyze is not eager to allow returns so I'm stuck with them.I hope the fact any would-be thief sees the cameras will make him/her turn away. I say that because that's their one and only use. They actively monitor nothing, do not send notifications, and the batteries are draining at about 1% everyday, even though the cameras are off while I'm home - which is every day due to COVID, except for an hour or 2 while running errands.So at this rate of minimal use, the battery life will be about 3 months. This is lower than what Wyze claims, since I'm not taking 10 to 20 videos per day (not even close).Aside from the hope of deterrence, these cameras are useless.