I do have 3 Eufy Indoor cams. I use one in the front yard, one in the back yard, and one in my room just inside the Front door. I also have Wyze cams looking over these same areas. The eufy’s are just my fail safe for if Wyze’s servers are down or something. I believe in redundancy.
They’re okay. I like them for the most part. They are definitely not better than my Wyze cams IMO, and they certainly have their share of bugs…sometimes insanely frustrating and things I considered severe bugs that they’ve completely ignored for years.
But they’re alright, and I love the local/edge AI that is included…although I do get a ton of false detections in certain situations. They’re by no means perfect. I loved that they do 2K…until I learned that if you do continuous recording that it will disable the 2K. I also liked that RTSP is included, but it also disables a bunch of features if you use it. There are some SD card issues sometimes with entire events missing…this is really aggravating. Setting the detection zone can be frustrating sometimes. There are other small things, and there are a lot of reasons I like Wyze over eufy even if you dismiss Cam Plus…but I like a lot of stuff about eufy too (like you said, the local person and pet detection is a big benefit)…just not as much as I like about Wyze and why I stuck with Wyze after trying both out.
Overall I like eufy, but they have their own issues and they’re more expensive.
I do think it will be great as Wyze moves away from Cloud dependency and more toward a localized focus. They also said they are working to do more local AI stuff and combine that with cloud AI as well. The local options are fairly limited for now though, so if it is something you need now, eufy isn’t a bad choice, I use them as my backup…but there are strong reasons I do not use them as my primary cameras. If you do it, get just one or 2 at first and make sure you like it. Make sure you can live with the bugs. Use it frequently, check out the features, and acknowledge you like it the way it is and will never expect an update or bug fix for anything. If that’s all good, then it might be a good option for you. They go on sale frequently, so maybe wait for that.
Again, personally, I generally recommend people to choose Wyze over Eufy in most situations, but I like Eufy as a backup cam for redundancy. If you want to try one out, wait for a sale, try just one, make sure you can live with all the problems and bugs. At that point you should know what you prefer (Wyze Eufy, or another one) and can make a better decision then.
Short version, I got 3 eufy cams back when I only had a few Wyze cams. After trying both out, I stopped buying eufy and now I got well over 2 dozen cams, and I did all that even before I became a Maven here…but I personally decided Wyze was better overall.