Soliom s600 4G LTE Solar Powered Security Camera Review – Perfect Tilt & Pan Camera For Remote Locations

1. Solar Panels

The first being that it comes with a solar panel. 

The solar panel fits nicely on top of the camera but also has an extension cable that you can use where if the camera itself is in a shaded or in an area that does not receive sunshine, you can run the extension cable and the solar panel to a place where you can be confident it will get sunlight and charge the unit.

This means you could use this camera completely off-grid in terms of not needing any accessible power to keep it running.

2. Local footage storage

The second reason it works for remote locations is its ability to record footage to a micro SD card, which can be fitted into the camera to store all of your footage locally and not have to rely on a wireless cloud connection to store in the cloud.

If you do want to store in the cloud, this is an option, but not through wifi. And this leads me on to the third standout point for this camera being used in remote or unconnected locations.

3. 4G LTE Connectivity

This camera does not have wireless. It connects via a 4G LTE connection and is limited to a couple of networks in the United States.

Don’t buy this camera at this time if you’re trying to make it work with a 4G network in another country. 

If in doubt email Soliom, their customer support is great.

A great inclusion with the Soliom S600 is that it comes with a SIM card with about 300 MB of data already pre-supplied on it.

So, wherever you are in the U.S. you can take this camera, connect it, get it set up before you even need to go out and get a new connection to your network provider. 

The SIM card inserts easily at the bottom of the camera and when you open up the app, the device will ask you to scan the QR code with the camera itself.

To be clear, holding the QR code that pops up on the app in front of the camera creates the connectivity required for this to become active. 

It’s quite similar to the SwitchBot Tilt Pan Cam in this regard and makes it very easy to set up and get going.

The unit has two antennae on it to increase the connectivity and so, a great location for this is those spots around your property or perhaps your vacation property where wifi isn’t really an option. 

We don’t have wifi at our holiday place down the coast, but unfortunately, we also don’t have the network required for this camera, but we expect that it’s coming soon and I’m going to enjoy having this fitted as it’s important to me to have visibility on the property, but without wifi, it makes this very difficult.

The Soliom s600 Tilt Pan Cam takes care of this for me. 

The camera can be remote and connected.

What else does this camera do that is handy? 

The Soliom also includes a spotlight, which is really bright, and if you watch the accompanying video to this article you’ll see the light come on when I block the sensor for a moment.

The thing is blinding, which may not be clear on the video, but I can assure you that it was a most uncomfortable experience looking into the lights. 

There is night vision on the unit, which is fantastic, and a PIR Motion Sensor.

There’s two-way talk, so if you do notice someone on the camera, you can have a chat with them or just shout at somebody that shouldn’t be where they are on the camera, and with the two-way, they can shout or talk back to you. 

Undoubtedly, one of the coolest features of this camera is the 360-degree pan-tilt functionality.

You’ll see in the video that I demonstrate the left and right turning of this and the up and down. 

The picture quality is excellent and I’m gonna refer you over to home reviews who have done a great job of reviewing this camera and providing footage after mounting it on a tree on his driveway.

The ability to pan left and right, up and down, and get a full view of where the camera sits removes that uncertainty that you get with a lot of other cameras like the ring cameras where often motion is detected, but by the time you look at the footage, the object or person has already passed by the camera. 

And even with a wide depth of view on the ring cameras, it’s often just not enough to get a full view of the property where the camera is set up.

I absolutely love how simple this unit is to set it up. 

With the mounting plate and the supplied stickers, you can easily put the sticker where you wanna mount it, make sure it’s flush, pre-drill your holes, add the mounting bracket, and then click on the unit itself.

You then simply just need to plug in the solar panel, which clips on the top very easily, and then insert the SIM card, scan the app, and you’re good to go.

I will say if you’re planning on mounting this high up in a tree or anywhere that’s quite out of reach that you’re better to get the camera set up and ready to go before you do install it.

It is awesome not needing to worry about wifi range or power connectivity, and this thing really is an all-in-one unit with a spotlight, two-way talk, 360-degree pan-tilt, solar charging, and 4G LTE connectivity. 

Soliom has long been on our best outdoor solar panel cameras list and they will continue to do so with this unit.

Any questions, let us know in the comments below. I would be happy to answer them.

This post was last updated on 2023-09-27 / Some images from Amazon Product API & some links may be affiliate links which may earn us a commission from purchases.