No, I am not a Wyze employee. I am a volunteer forum moderator and fellow user.
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Two of my sensors died within a year
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How could this person being using Wyze for over two years and spell it Wyse? Obviously a fake poster.
As a random guy who read through this whole thread, I just want to say, I love my wyze cams. They work for me very well.
As for support, I do feel it takes longer than other companies, but it always got resolved.
As for windows 10, I like it, but prefer Linux.
I donāt use Gimp or Photoshop. I use affinity products, which are a 1 time purchase, best move ever. For photography I use On1 products.
I am a beta tester for Wyze that does not get paid or get free products. They pretty much send me buggy software for me to send in logs when things donāt work correctly. However, throughout the years, I have only had to about 3 issues which were resolved fairly quickly with an update.
Also I agree with the person who said buy it if you like, donāt buy it if you donāt like it. They are not saying to stop complaining or anything, at least I donāt think, but saying to choose with you wallet. Also, donāt lose sleep over it. Thank goodness these are cheap devices. But I have had bigger issues with $200 cameras then the wyze cams I have. I just stopped buying the cameras I donāt like. Am I out $400(2cams), sure, but Iām not going to lose sleep over it. So, you as well, donāt lose sleep over it. Enjoy life. Find a camera that you do want to use and support. Look up reviews online and research things. Maybe build your own camera using Chinese parts. 
Anyway, I hope everyone has a great week!
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The question is, do you prefer using old laptop webcams, or Raspberry Pi cameras? 
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=build+cam+old+laptop
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I love raspberry pis!!! But letās not get too off topic here 
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My comments to WYZEā¦
I have one Cam down (not working) now out of 12. I only tried to reset it so for, but no luck. I will try other options but am not mad at WYZE as i have been an early adopter of wyze products from the Camās, Bulbs, Switches/Plugs, Motion Sensors, and Scale without any issues. My wife and I regularly monitor our Camās that are grouped as Outdoors, 1st floor, and 2nd floor to watch our 2 dogs and 1 cat. The new āPerson Detection āā (PD) seems to work pretty well after the original AI at the edge company ended and wyze took-up the project. I dont know why the 1st AI company for Person Detection was kicked out. If this great idea was that of wyze i sure hope that wyze takes the prior 1st AI company to court on IP. We also use the email notification feature for Person Detection and sometimes any and all detection (visual, sound). Wyze should come up with Pet Detection, i.e. things with 4 legs and no arms. Last year American Households with Pets outnumbers Households with Children; thus, Pet Detection would be great to catch my Lab named Luna jumping up on the kitchen counter to grab the left over pizza. This would be a game changer. We do catch her but with standard motion detection. The future will be facial detection as Amazon does with Amazon Photos, Apple with Photos, and Google with photos. This technology is amazingly good. Try is by downloading your phones photos to Amazon or Google then see the head shots it auto capturesā¦you can then name the people. I have a Cam pointed at the Amazon drop-off location behind a pillar near my front door. This is a great use of the Cam. I can see my wife sleeping in on the weekends from downstairs so i donāt make a bunch of noise till she wakes up. I tried for the last two Christmases to make use of the wyze Cams on the large (10.1ā ??), 8", and 5" Amazon Shows but did not have great success. I did not drill down into how to set them up with Wyze or Amazon support/tech. I just sent back all 6 Amazon Shows as i have Amazon Prime. Maybe this Christmas I will try again; however, its not too pressing now as i ran across an Android Emulator for the PC/MAC. Its called āBlueStacksā and works great. The functionality and image quality is the same as on my iPhone 10ā¦Plus i can load any Google Play (iSO App on my Apple Pads) for other uses. It was like finding gold yesterday when I installed it. As most people are working from home due to Covid 19 (and many will keep working from home after Covid 19 if over as it saves companies money, provides more productivity, less carbon footprint, less drive time, lower insuranceā¦the list of benefits goes on and on as companies having employees work from home). You can use BlueStacks to check real-time your Camās inside and out of the House on most likely a 2-3 monitor PC setup. Iām not sure how many companies will let this app onto their LAN. My dogs bark and I take a look at my Camās to see if it is my Amazon Pkg, Good stuff. I wish I could view all 12 Cams at once but have not figured that one out yet. The Wyze Cam app only allows 3 Camās to be viewed at one time (just like your phone)ā¦you must scroll down to see the other Cams. Also, I have not found a way to view in landscape to see 4 Cams. I have tested many other Camās and have not found any that are better for setup, quality, functionality, user interface, price, etc. I wish that wyze moves faster into the home automation space with a full host of appliances that some other companies have. I still use X10 for my lighting controlā¦so I would vote 1,000 times for wize to develop a wyze in the wall switch. I see that Amazon is running away with the home automation space and wish that wyze get with Amazon to better integrate their items. Better yet, I wish (and believe) that Amazon should buy Wyze as its a great fit with Alexa.
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Xnor.ai terminated their relationship with Wyze just before they were acquired by Apple
Yes, this is a problem when using the Wyze app in BlueStacks and other Android emulators. 
Give this free app a try. It runs great in BlueStacks and you can view up to 25 cams on one screen. ( there is also a paid Pro version with more features like serving the cams up to a web page )
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Hey speaking of Tinycam, I havenāt taken that plunge quite yet - any chance they DONāT store your Wyze credentials on their own servers but instead have your locally installed client pass them on to Wyze as needed? Because that would quell some safety concernsā¦
Firmware does not contain any cpu.
I believe he or she was saying that the RTSP firmware that was released had to tamp down other features because the CPU on the camera wouldnāt be able to support everything at the same timeā¦
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Iām getting the impression that you are recommending that we should not buy Wyze products. I mean, you are being so objective in your report that I canāt be sure, yet the overall impression is that you donāt like Wyze.
We have a basic Wyze cam v.2 pointed towards the front entry hall. We use the Wyze app on our Samsung/Android phone to turn the camera on when weāre leaving the house. When weāre out and about I can open the app and check the live feed, or just wait to see if any alerts come through on the phone. It has worked perfectly so far. Viewing the 10 or 12 second āAlertā video clips is certainly very easy to do. Viewing recordings using the ātimelineā bar at the bottom of the window can be tedious if thereās a lot of recording during any given period but, hey, itās a $20 camera and it does what it promised to do. The video quality at 1080p is better than our previous Yi cam which was 720p resolution. The two-way audio also works with no problem. The product is basic and it works as advertised, so weāre happy.
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I just direct emailed @alexey.vasilyev to confirm and he replied in under three minutes
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Your Wyze credentials stored on your device in app encrypted folder. Noone excepts for app has access it.
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Now, I do not have the skills to prove this is true, but he seems very serious and legitimate.
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Not sure if youāre addressing me, or the original poster, or what. Personally I wouldnāt recommend them at present, but I also would NOT recommend AGAINST them, precisely because many people like you seem satisfied.
However I would advise someone with serious security or health monitoring concerns to look elsewhere right now.
I have a small array of Wyze stuff and it mostly works for basic functionality, but I canāt say Iām really happy with it. Itās good for dipping a toe into home monitoring (and the image quality is good). The bulbs have been okay, except for horrific setup (Turn Off Your Mobile Data). Havenāt even really used the plugs or sensors yet.
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Thanks so much for checking @sodcam , that is great news!
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yeah, Iām pretty sure thatās what they were implying but the CPU is not the reason. Wyze stated that the chip that holds the firmware only had so much space, not enough to hold rtsp code & all the code needed for the latest features.
If thatās true, and if tamping down other features is a real no-no, then Wyze made a huge design error. They should have brought out a different model (or a v.3, maybe?) with an appropriate chip containing sufficient onboard memory to handle those updates/improvements. If the existing chip IS able to support those features then, clearly, the source of the problem lies elsewhere.
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rtsp was not an original feature, it was only added due to the massive requests.
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I would to stay away from Wyse cams as well, as it sounds like they are a fake clone of the similar sounding company, Wyze.
I would definitely look into Wyze cameras. I have about 10 of them, bridge, sensors, bulbs, scale and not having any issues. About 2 years ago or so, I had camera that stopped powering on, and they sent me replacement. Year ago, I had another camera that stopped powering on, they sent me replacement. Their support is great.
Yes I wish they had some extra features, better detection zones, but thatās not something Iām willing to pay hundreds of dollars more, just to have possibly better features. No where close in price you can find the camera with same features, stable app, and great support.
I have my sensors control Wyze bulbs, and other brand bulbs that I vought before Wyze came out with bulbs, and i never had any issues woth amy of that.
My scale that I got recently, has more features, than a scale my brother bought at about $100 price tag.
Iām not am employee of Wyze, but I do like their products, for the price they offer.
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