Do you trust Wyze? (2022)

[Newshound]

You do seem to like stirring things up, without a particular focus. Have fun!

Here to help if you ever get focused, lol.

[peepeep]

Hi @Newshound !

Hmm, maybe more of an oscillation?

@Newshound

Here to help if you ever get focused, lol.

Help! Why do you trust Wyze?

[peepeep]

@CatHome

Forcing a yes/no vote… have to lean no:

NO Landscape for iPads
NO viable Wyze Web View…

@CatHome

And, for the YES side of the Survey:

YES, I enjoy the 8 WCO V1’s that I have to monitor the wildlife around my house
YES, I enjoy the two V3’s that also monitor for wildlife in the backyard…

I like this YES/NO | PRO/CON format, @CatHome , fair and explicit!

[peepeep]

Please consider taking the:

Wyze Community Survey July/August 2022

Hi, everyone! My name is Gwendolyn and I’m a Senior Digital Community Manager at Wyze. We’ve had a lot of changes in our communities since the middle of 2021 (including adding a new community platform!) and adjusting some of the tools we use for our communities. This survey is looking for insight from you into what Wyze communities you participate in, how you feel in these groups, and how you feel about Wyze. If you take the full survey, it may take up to half an hour to complete. However, I a…

[ssummerlin]

@peepeep

What would the scale extremes 0 & 10 mean?

o - No trust.
10 - I would buy a mechanical heart from Wyze.

I finally voted with a 7.5. More plusses than minuses.

Please don’t ask to date my under-age daughter.

[peepeep]

7.5, that’s pretty darn good. I will join you there for the moment. Seems right.

I have yet to drop below 6, I think, over 3+ years. I have v2 cams, and original bulbs and plugs.
 

@ssummerlin

Please don’t ask to date my under-age daughter.

Deal.

[peepeep]

Wyze Community Survey July/August 2022

Did anyone debate the merits if ‘10’ on a 0-10 or ‘yes’ on a binary scale is better?

@peepeep

Nope. Interesting question though.

Here’s… something.

[ssummerlin]

That is … something.

Green - Willing to spend the green $.
Blue - Cool at not doing anything; buying or complaining.
Red - Frustrated.

I thought blue should be yellow for cautious to buy any thing, but it would look like an inverted US stop light.

[peepeep]

Your trust and satisfaction may depend on the number of different Wyze products you have - and how well those products interact. @ssummerlin and I at Trust 7.5, for example, are kind of minimalists: v2/3 cams bulbs and plugs. Many have a great variety.

Formally Sharing cams - or sharing Account credentials - places variable demands on their limited power to process and serve multiple video streams simultaneously. I do neither.

Accessing cams from outside your own WiFi network via cellular connection throws another big variable into the mix. I access them mostly via WiFi.

The varying quality and performance of folks’ WiFi networks makes one-to-one comparison of our experiences nigh on impossible.

@spamoni

First let me say that I believe very few actually change from their default ISP provided routers. I would also venture to say that a percentage of individuals who say they do, actually leave the router in place and add WiFi Nodes and turn off the ISP Provided WiFi. I think the Percentages decrease as you go through your list. Note: We are talking about Home users not businesses, correct?

• Keep ISP providers: about 70%,
• Upgrade to Costco-level Premium: about 20%
• Purchase the more expensive routers: about 10%.

And expectations differ:

Wyze would sell more V3 cameras if they didn't need to have power recycled periodically

I confess, I can’t argue for or against trusting them as sole security because I can’t get interested enough in hard security. Their old refrain, use the cams to ‘keep an eye on things,’ is how I’ve always and still use them and this suits me perfectly. They give me a rough sense of what’s going on around me in the neighborhood and that’s exactly what I want. Even the ‘misses’ inherent in the 5 minute cool-down with Cam Plus Lite don’t bother me. * I may not be a good example, or maybe there…

Still, we soldier on…  

[bryonhu]

I trust Wyze as much as I trust any Chinese company, all Chinese companies have the government in their business with NO choice in the matter.

No I am Not Saying Wyze is a Chinese Company, But Everything Wyze sells was designed in China by the Chinese Company. Wyze just has their own firmware/software for the devices,

Wyze has no control over what may or may not be imposed on the Chinese company by the Chinese Government. Don’t think so? Below is a Google Search on the subject…
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=chinese+electronics+with+chinese+backdoor

However I already knew this going in to the Wyze Cam Game, That is why ALL my cameras are outside around my property and some older V2’s ended up in the Barn. Any hackers will be bored with my video stream…LOL

[ssummerlin]

@bryonhu

That is why ALL my cameras are outside around my property and some older V2’s ended up in the Barn. Any hackers will be bored with my video stream…LOL

Exactly, 100% agree.

[wabbit9298]

I agree, they should stick to their core products, Light Bulb, Camera, maybe even the Plug, but adding all the other stuff before working out the bugs on the core items, think then they would have a better product and once they have worked out ALL the bugs then they can move onto new products, but to put out all these products when they are still having issues with their core products make the whole company look bad.