A hardware reset returns the Yale Smart Outdoor Camera back to factory settings but maintains the existing registration to a current user's Yale Home account.
Under the rubber cover on the underside of the Yale Smart Outdoor Camera you will find a button, press and hold that button for + 12 seconds, and you will hear a bleep, you can release the button and the camera LED will follow a sequence of green and red LED flashes. A constant steady blinking green will indicate that the camera has successfully reset and rebooted.
If the Yale Smart Outdoor Camera has been onboarded to a Yale Home account before the reset, the hardware factory reset does not remove the camera from the ecosystem, data and recorded video will remain in the Yale Home app/cloud as well as the cameras registration to the current users account. After a hardware factory reset, the camera can be onboarded again to a new home WiFi network, however, only with the same user account it is currently registered to. To onboard the Yale Smart Outdoor Camera to a new user account, the owner account linked to the camera needs to remove (uninstall, unregister) the device from the Yale Home app. To do this, in the Yale Home app go to Settings>Utilities>Remove Device.
This means for example, that a stolen camera can't be onboarded and registered to a new account.