Now i have both Wyze and Eufy, Both of them connects except once a while Wyze got 1,2,3 .
should check streaming video quality. Eufy’s Auto streaming quality cause the app hunting for optimum streaming speed. Use Manual setting.
if you a lots of units, try router with good cpu and memory size. or have multiple routers to not overload your network.
Eufy can be configured through its Pet Command to playback a custom audio sound when it detects motion. Up to 10 seconds as recorded by your phone’s microphone. The default built in is “Hey what are you doing there”.
Only if you have your phone turned to landscape mode so that the camera image fills the screen, and if you are nimble enough with your fingers you can quickly grab the shot from moving (not paused) video.
Eufy taking a lot of heat lately after it’s discovered everything isn’t local and encrypted like they tell everyone:
9to5Google: Eufy caught lying about local-only security cameras with footage sent to cloud, accessible in unencrypted streams [U].
I do have a few Eufy cams as redundancy for my Wyze cams (Wyze is my primary ecosystem). Some people who were willing to pay a little more for Eufy over Wyze to have everything local and encrypted are going to be pretty upset to learn neither of those those things were completely accurate after all
Okay, I’ve only quickly read the first article, but there are already issues.
“Footage sent” and “stream” appear to be a complete lie? It’s only derived facial metadata, not video streams at all being sent to Eufy servers?
The doorbell’s camera was uploading facial recognition data from the camera to Eufy’s cloud servers with identifiable information attached, and that this data wasn’t actually removed from Eufy’s servers when the related footage had been deleted from the Eufy app
The really big issue is the remotely accessible streaming URLs. This is a gaping security vulnerability - but NOT an indication that Eufy was doing anything nefarious or lying… Well, other than their claim the vulnerability didn’t exist.
So as usual, it seems from a quick reading that the press has gotten this wrong. Corrections are welcome.
I too am a little confused as the articles seem to contradict themselves a lot for ratings. I am not 100% sure what the truth is here.
Best I can make out, it kind of sounds like the stream is kind of encrypted, and can only be accessed if you already know certain information that you’d definitely need physical access for.
The only exception being the notification thumbnail?
I’m not completely certain as the articles’dramatics for ratings make it hard to tell what’s true and what’s not.
The way I read them, all that ends up on Eufy servers are face metadata (numbers) and, according to the Ars piece, a thumbnail image. The latter is bad.
As to the video stream, neither article indicates any unauthorized storage of video, but both imply that video URLs are reachable, without worry about any encryption, so long as one knows, guesses, or generates a suitable 1 out of 64K possible UIDs.