Understand. Power seems to be one of the two greatest drivers. The OC was clearly designed to minimize power usage to maximize battery. I would say the balance is still not well achieved.
I’m planning to continue the science-project, and have purchased solar panels with a small integrated battery, weatherproof housings, and an outdoor wifi extender…all to see if I can use V2s in the same manner, albeit more reliably. Other cameras have equivalent versions already…but I’m staying with the Wyze platform until I get too bored.
Well, at least I’m glad I’m not the only one. I thought I was doing something wrong, but apparently a lot of people are having the same issues with the Outdoor.
no motion detection
no ability to change motion area within app
no alerts
no recording on the SD card.
When I first popped out the camera from the box, it sent me an alert. But during the setup, it had me perform a firmware update. None of the above has worked since. Anyone know if you can downgrade firmware?
Your “dedicated post” has almost nothing to do with this discussion. And you simply repeated what the person posting right before you said. No one can seem to get a response from Wyze. I personally have had a ticket in regarding these issues for at least 2 weeks with no response.
The instructions for setup seemed to imply that connecting cam to base via cable wire was only needed for setup, not all the time. At least that was my understanding.
By chance, I notice the other day that there was a WYZE product in that I thought was a setup mode because it was advertising itself as WYZE_xxxxxxxxxx. First I started to panic thinking it was one of my Wyze products like lock or cam that went offline for some reason. Ugh need to wade through all of my Wyze products to find this rogue SSID. Then it dawned on me that the base station speaks to the cams so i disconnected it and low and behold the SSID disappeared. UGH.
It’s the frickin Outdoor Cam’s base station!!?? the xxxx is the mac address of the base station. so basically I’m advertising to everyone that I got wyze Outdoor cam somewhere that isn’t tethered to any surface. Come over, find it and take it. UGH.
You would have thought something that hyper local and that serves a SINGLE purpose to be a hidden SSID or something benign or agnostic? Now I can imagine someone setting up a brute force attack to either take over the cam since it knows the SSID that all of the Outdoor Cam is looking for. By using the base station as your attack vector, its can’t be detected by a monitor since the base station and the cam is a closed system. So someone could hit it all day and night.
Unfortunately I’m in the same boat as everyone else. The detection/notifications just don’t work very well on my outdoor cam. Has anyone found documentation for what the “Close” & “Far” setting is actually supposed to do? It might seem self-explanatory, but judging from the comments on this thread I’m not sure it is. It’s not mentioned anywhere in the user guide and is completely skipped over on the Wyze Cam Outdoor Motion Detection and Effective Area page. As tricky as the detection zones are to setup on this camera I think it would make sense to fully explain.
One would think with so many complaints and dissatisfaction, somebody from Wyze would either make a post explaining the situation or respond to some of the emails. It really makes me wonder how much longer they are going to be around.
Why doesn’t the outdoor cam have continuous recorded playback like all the other cameras? This was crucial when filling in the gaps of the small capture clips.
Just saw you can set a schedule to record larger chunks of time. But it’s not very intuitive. I get the saving battery but if I am already accustomed to continuous recording from all the other versions of the cameras, don’t take it away. It should be up to me the user to figure out the battery situation. that being said, if I have it plugged into a power source it should have continuous recording automatically turned on. Maybe it just get’s deactivated when on battery only or travel mode. Seems like something that can be fixed.
No problem!. I should have clarified but pretty frustrated.
When I say “standing directly in front of it” i meant 2-3 Feet in my office.
Forget using it outside looking at my driveway!!
I have no clue why there such a difference in experience with this camera. Mine triggers out at the road when a car goes by. That’s a distance of approximately 80’. The battery lasted 10 days the first time before down to 15%. Without a replaceable batter there’s not much use for it.
