Hi, been using 10 Wyze V4 cameras (with SD cards) for about 1.5 months. Just received notice from Xfinity that I am approaching my 1.2 TB limit for home internet. We normally use 300-500 GB per month per Xfinity records, but January we are already at 970 GB with 5 days remaining. The cameras work…

[image] michael_winslow: exactly. design limit or bug. once authentication takes place there is no good reason to loop through an external network server. Think of it this way - web view sits on a server far away, and you’re accessing it remotely. In theory they should be able to have the vi…

[image] dave27: Think of it this way - web view sits on a server far away, and you’re accessing it remotely. Think of it this way… The company said it does P2P on local net. they do for the phone client… as for server authentication - there are easy ways to authenticate then pass off a P2P. …

Oof, mentioning xfinity and McDonald’s in the same post makes me doubly sick. Haven’t touched either in years. Now the puke is cleaned up. That data usage for 10 streams is very realistic. Are you at home on the same LAN as the cameras. If so that’s a very inefficient setup. You need 10 IP cameras…

If they could do it easily (meaning cheaply, minimal development costs, and not causing increased support calls) they would have done it by now as the current design is costing them money. It is nowhere near as easy as copying and pasting an AI response from Google. Nowhere does it say that web vi…

[image] ourmessages: If you want to keep the current setup, get a T-mob home internet box and dedicate that to the cameras and IOT and downgrade to rhe cheapest xfiinity TMHI has even stricter data caps and the latency will be terrible for remote camera streaming.

[image] dave27: Thought that had started changing with newer firmware versions on some cams. When they can’t phone home for a certain amount of time, they reboot. That was a bug and it was fixed in the beta firmware, at least for the V3s. [image] Wyze Cam v3 Firmware Beta Test 1/27/2025 L…

[image] dave27: It is nowhere near as easy as copying and pasting an AI response from Google. well, that was grok, and it was illustrative, not functional… FWIW - I spent 30 years in data communications and protocols. This includes network management, troubleshooting and code development in …

This is my experience with the setup we have. I have a TM internet box in a Rubbermaid plastic tub literally screwed to the side of a temp power pole in the mountains on our rural 200+ acres. (we have 3 temp power poles total due to acquiring additional neighbors land) The box has has a Yolink LoRa …

So you’re a subject matter expert on modern web browsers, OSes, and the security protocols they’ve put in place to prevent malicious apps from accessing your network? If condescension and personal attacks are your go-to when someone disagrees with you, not really much point in any further discussio…

Not saying TMHI is unusable for cams, certainly a lot better than satellite. For many people, especially ones in your situation (like @habib at his remote island where he has to monitor to ensure the beavers don’t stage a coup) cellular internet is a great thing to have. Just saying the latency an…

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habib January 31, 2025, 11:13am 63

That was a bug and it was fixed in the beta firmware, at least for the V3s.

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