Xiaomi CW500 Dual is one of Xiaomi’s best-known outdoor cameras, because it combines a fixed lens and a second one that rotates to follow movement in one body. The new camera Baseus PrimeSentinel U2 Pro is built on the same idea: it adds 3K resolution on both lenses, a solar panel, and a light that in the night points directly at the person. It normally costs almost 300 €, but during Black Friday you can buy it for a third of the price, so from the Xiaomi CW500 Dual it’s separated by just a few dozen euros.
You mostly know Baseus for power banks and chargers that it also sells on Youpine, where Xiaomi offers products from partner brands. Security cameras are made under the Baseus Security brand, and in October we already showed you its solar X1 Pro with two rotating lenses. The U2 Pro camera solves it differently: one lens keeps the same frame, and the other tracks what’s happening around you.
Solar dual 3K camera for a third of the price from a European warehouse
Baseus PrimeSentinel U2 Pro is sold by Baseus’s official European e-shop, which ships it from their EU warehouse, so it should arrive to you in about 5 to 10 working days and you don’t pay customs duty or VAT extra. For returns, you have 14 days. The box includes the camera, the solar panel with a bracket, a mounting base, and screws—however, you need to buy the memory card separately.
Baseus PrimeSentinel U2 Pro dual 3K camera
TIPExpress delivery from a European warehouse—no customs duty and VAT.
This product will be delivered to you via express shipment from a local warehouse in Europe. Delivery from EU warehouses usually takes from 2-10 days and is handled by a courier. When it arrives, you won’t pay any additional fees—no customs duty and no VAT.
One lens watches the entrance, the other tracks an intruder around the yard
The upper lens has 3K resolution and a wide 130° field of view. During installation, you can point it e.g. at the gate or the front door, and you can also tilt it by 30°. The lower lens is rotatable as well, also in 3K resolution, and the camera pans it 360° left and right and 65° up and down. When someone walks through the yard, the rotating lens tracks them on its own, while the fixed lens continues to guard its spot—so nothing happening at the door in the meantime will slip by.

For details—like the courier’s face or the vehicle’s license plate number—the camera has a 8-x digital zoom. X1 Pro rotates both lenses and sees 210° at once, while U2 Pro has one fixed view and then rotates by turning the entire bottom section around.
In the night it shines directly at the person
The biggest new feature is the SpotTrack light at the bottom of the camera. When the camera detects a person at night, instead of lighting up the whole yard, it shines with a narrow cone of light only on them and keeps tracking them with that beam even when they move—so the uninvited guest immediately knows someone is watching. The same light also shines on you when you come home in the evening.

In the dark you can choose a color image with built-in lighting, or a black-and-white infrared mode where the camera doesn’t shine. Using the speaker and microphone, you talk to the person in front of the house like a phone call—without having to switch, which comes in handy e.g. when the courier is looking for where to leave the package.
It recognizes family vs strangers and doesn’t wake you up for a leaf
Two PIR motion sensors track movement—one for each lens—and then AI built directly into the camera distinguishes people, faces, animals and cars. According to Baseus measurements, this combination should reduce the number of false alerts by 99%. The camera also remembers the faces of up to ten family members, so when a known person arrives you’ll get a different alert than you would for a stranger.

The Baseus app writes the alert to you in a short sentence—for example that the courier has just placed a package in front of the door. In recordings, you can also search by a keyword, so after entering “dog” it will show you all videos with a dog. You can set two motion-tracking zones, and two privacy zones that the camera will mask so it doesn’t record your neighbors’ yards.
No cable needed—the panel goes wherever the sun shines
The camera is powered by a battery that you charge with a detachable solar panel with a power of 3 W. According to Baseus tests, it’s enough for all-day operation for 40 minutes of direct sunlight, but the manufacturer doesn’t state the battery capacity. You can mount the camera on a wall and under a roof, and you can place the panel separately where it gets more sun. Since it doesn’t require a power outlet, it’ll also work on a fence, in a garage, or in a garden shed.

Recordings are stored encrypted on a microSD card up to 512 GB and you don’t pay a monthly fee; the cloud is optional. Since it’s a battery-powered camera, it records when motion is detected, not continuously. The camera has an IP65 rating and works at temperatures from −20 to 50 °C. You can also control it by voice via Google Home and Alexa.
Baseus PrimeSentinel U2 Pro vs. Xiaomi CW500 Dual
We’ve already reviewed the Xiaomi CW500 Dual, and it also has a fixed lens on top and a tilting lens at the bottom, with both having a resolution of 2,5K. However, you can rotate the upper lens only by hand, while you control the lower one in the app, rotating it by 355° left and right and by 95° up and down. We praised the image, but we were disappointed with person tracking, because when it moves faster the camera can’t keep up and doesn’t rotate in time. We tested the Chinese version; today, the European version for the Xiaomi Home app is sold here.
The main difference is in power. CW500 Dual, you have to plug it into the wall socket using an adapter 12 V—thanks to this, it can record continuously and you can connect it via LAN cable or via Wi‑Fi 6 in the 5 GHz band. On the front façade by the entrance, a cable is an advantage, but on a fence or a shed without electricity, you can’t use it. A dual camera with a Xiaomi solar panel isn’t available in Europe, because its solar BW400 Pro has only one fixed lens.
According to Heureka, the CW500 Dual costs in Slovak stores from under 70 € (as of 10. November), so the Baseus U2 Pro is about 30 € more expensive with a discount. For the extra charge, you get higher resolution, support for a larger card, light that points at a person, and most importantly, a camera without cables. If you have a Xiaomi ecosystem at home and there’s a power outlet where you’ll mount it, then the CW500 Dual is enough and you can integrate it into automations in Xiaomi Home. If you need to monitor a place without electricity, then for this money the U2 Pro is the better deal.
| Baseus PrimeSentinel U2 Pro | Xiaomi CW500 Dual | |
|---|---|---|
| Lenses | fixed + tilting | fixed + tilting |
| Resolution | 3K + 3K | 2.5K + 2.5K |
| Fixed lens | 130° / tilt 30° | manual rotation 180° / 25° |
| Tilting lens | 360° / 65° | 355° / 95° |
| Power | battery + solar panel 3 W | adapter 12 V |
| Recording | when moving | continuous even while moving |
| Light | SpotTrack targets a person | LED for both lenses |
| AI detection | Person / face / animal / car | person / vehicle |
| Storage | microSD up to 512 GB | microSD up to 256 GB / NAS / cloud |
| Connection | Wi-Fi | Wi‑Fi 6 2.4 and 5 GHz / LAN |
| App | Baseus | Xiaomi Home |
| Durability | IP65 | IP66 |
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