Quietly launched this week, Walmart is launching its third camera as a part of Google Home’s “Gemini built in” program, with a new $35 outdoor wired camera.
Sold for just a quarter of the price of Nest’s closest competitor, the Walmart Onn Outdoor Camera Plug-in – besides being a mouthful – is the latest camera designed to work natively in the Google Home app. The camera follows in the footsteps of last year’s indoor camera and wired doorbell, sold for around $23 and $45, respectively – though sometimes much less.
Walmart’s outdoor camera, like the indoor one, has a pretty simple design with a posable arm, but with the addition of full color night vision and built-in spotlights. It also has a built-in cable that’s designed to attached to a longer USB-C cable while retaining weather proofing. It’s a design similar to some of Wyze’s outdoor cameras.
The 1080p camera integrates directly with the Google Home app, with full setup directly as a part of Home and cloud storage via Google Home Premium. Like Nest cameras, there’s no local storage, and you basically need that subscription to get any real value out of these cameras besides live view. If you are paying for Home Premium, Walmart’s new outdoor camera supports cloud-based event and recording history, Gemini-powered video descriptions, and even Google’s newly enhanced camera event automations.
