The exact statement was a little more fluid than guaranteed as late 2023, but they did state they planned to add it:
Timelapse - Yes, we plan to add this function in the future for our power users. We’re aiming for sometime at the end of this year or early next year. u/Bitter-Painter-3661 (8/2/2023)
We are still looking at the end of this year or early next year. u/WyzeDS (10/27/23)
I do not recall seeing any advertisement to that effect though. Where did you see this? They are usually pretty careful lately to ensure they aren’t doing this and don’t make absolute guarantees on timelines because of the risk of entitlement backfire when unforeseen circumstances or obstacles come up. But if you have a source of advertisement promising this, I’ll be happy to use it as leverage to push them to make it a higher priority. I would like this feature ASAP too.
We had an employee comment about this somewhere in 2024, but I am struggling to find the exact source now for some reason (might’ve been Reddit or Discord or part of a different thread on here that went off-topic for this question). As I recall, they said something about how they still planned to add timelapse, but that they had some kind of obstacle come up that pushed their timeline back a little bit further than they expected.
When I brought timelapse for previous products like the Floodlight Pro, etc. They mentioned that they didn’t originally add the timelapse feature on some of the cameras because their analytics showed them that the timelapse feature is actually used by a very small minority of edge users, and is almost never touched by an overwhelming majority of their users. Only a few people really ever use it, and so it didn’t appear to be worth the resources it took to make the feature compatible for some of the new products when it was rarely used by most of their userbase. They like to give priority to features that benefit and are used by the majority of their users. However, it is a popular feature among a certain important sub-group of users, so they said they would add these features anyway for those of us who do love to use them.
To help explain what I mean about important small subgroups, there was an issue a few years ago where the Wyze Home Assistant integration was used by only between 1,000-10,000 individual instances. It was a TINY fraction of Wyze’s millions of users of their services. Less than a percent. However, this tiny less than 1% of users was using more than 50% of the traffic to Wyze’s servers. So, even though they are a very, very TINY minority of their customers, they were a HUGE and very important subgroup of their users. Most of Wyze’s users may only have 1 or a couple devices, but these home assistant users had dozens to hundreds of devices (I have over 300 Wyze devices). This is the TYPE of thing they mean by a “power user”…power users may not be the majority, but they are still a very important subgroup for them and have a ton of devices and love to use features the majority of others might not care about or use. That is what they are talking about.
I would say they were definitely including you in their general statement. It’s not a rigid definition or anything. They were just making a point of how even though it is something used by only a very small group of people (compared to the MILLIONS of others), you/we are still an IMPORTANT group for them, so they were going to work on adding this for us because they know it is something many of us want.
