Direct access to SD card with download ability

It boggles me that this is not a feature at this point. I enjoy everything about wyze cameras, but this feels like basic feature. I have a cam one subscription for all of my cameras (14 and counting). I spend half the year overseas and do not have physical access to the cameras. My cameras witnessed a bombing and murder and I am attempting to pull several hours of footage across all cameras as requested by the police department. It is not possible to do this in real time for all my cameras - 1) this would take days and 2) that assumes the internet connection remains stable, which it does not, else the recording ends up botched. I need to be able to select a date/time range and download it all at once, or direct access to download the specific files off the SDcard.

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a lot of posts…i would like to propose maybe a less perfect but maybe implementable approach. what if on the phone playback screen there was an option to save the displayed data to phone. then user could move file stored on phone somewhere else?? a slight change to phone app to select file -or- make it like a log file (predefined name/location). it allows them to maintain 2FA and possibly minimal app mods.

What you’re describing seems like the way the app currently works. The interface can be a little different depending on the camera model, but on a Cam Pan v3, while I’m playing back video from continuous recording on microSD, I can tap the Record button under the viewer and then tap Stop when I’m done capturing what I want to save. There’s a brief overlay with a message: ā€œVideo saved to the device.ā€ I can then go back to the live view, and in the button strip beneath the viewer I can swipe left and tap the Album button. That’s where the recordings are stored on the phone, and I can upload/copy/share/move these files as I would any other video file.

Is that the kind of thing you mean, or am I misunderstanding your suggestion?

A major drawback to this process is that the recordings a user is making locally to his or her phone from microSD playback have to be done in real time. There is currently no provision to tell the app to start the recording at this time stamp and end the recording at this time stamp and save everything in between in a single continuous video file (though there’s at least one Wishlist request asking for this). If someone has several minutes or hours of video that they want to compile into a single file, then this process is not practical at all, and a user’s best bet is to pull the card and do the video manipulation on a PC. I think that’s the main impetus behind this Wishlist request (this current topic).

Please feel free to set me straight if I misinterpreted your suggestion. In any case, welcome to the Forum, @hbellis.misc!

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thanks for 1st paragraph. i guess didn’t see it defined anywhere what existing buttons were suppose to do. your description is appreciated. the last paragraph describes what was hoping for sd in combination with the ability to dump entire sd to file. it just didn’t seem that this thread was moving and didn’t see your other thread. agree dumping sd card with phone at 1x would be unacceptable except for small file. if they had the record on the pc app, you probably could have it running in the background. though that’s a bunch of bandwidth to their server if a large group of user are effectively ā€œlive streaming sd dataā€ just to have it echo’d back to user. their camera wifi interface may prevent it from streaming faster even if sent locally to pc. (it might just support live streaming of data)

You’re welcome. I’m glad you found that helpful. The app interface isn’t entirely intuitive and can take some playing around and experimenting to really understand. Now there’s a Wyze app 3.0 beta available, but I haven’t taken the time to explore that, so I don’t know what may have changed aside from what was described in the announcement topic (and I haven’t taken the time to read all those posts).

Yeah, and even something like that involves some work, because the camera saves individual 1-minute files to microSD in sequence. If you want one contiguous video file, you have to concatenate those somehow. It’s a fairly straightforward proposition on a PC, and a Forum Maven, @IEatBeans, recently shared a Web-based tool to accomplish this, but it still involves pulling the microSD card from the camera to get direct access to the files; right now we can’t just pull those files directly off the card without touching it and the camera.

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If your wyze cams have the option of RTSP, enable it and use a 3rd party app like Netcam Studio to motion sense and record locally. I use a 1Tb drive plugged in to my router.

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+1. I recently replaced a couple of cheap Xiaomi cameras with the Pan V3 and to my surprise this feature is not available. On the Xiaomis I was able to do it. I never thought it was not a standard feature among different brands.

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I can view the videos from the cloud on PC but I don’t see a way to download the video I want to keep. I think the APP allows this but I don’t want to view them on that little screen and hate downloading to the phone (space limit) and hate more trying to get videos saved to phone - MOVED TO PC. Please add.

Another case of software well 1/2 done. The dollar before the customer.
If customer care was the priority they would allow access to the SD card for download.
As far as safety goes if the camera is made easily accessible to change the SD card it would be no problem for the intruder to remove it &/or the camera too. And then it can be read by any PC.
Being able to watch the videos on my much larger PC than the 1/4 sized video on my 6 inch phone.
The cameras already have an IP address so are accessible through a network connection.
Once my new house is finished and wired for an NVR system these cameras will be the first hings to go and will use trail cams where the NVR will not reach.
This software is so poor it nearly compares to the even crappier Roomba software.

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