Thank you for the info, I will check it out.
Waze, are you listening? This is what people have to resort to, Add the ability to download our content from the web app. Add more controls to the web app. I HATE the phone only experience.
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I agree. Iâm using wyze because the browser UI is what my grandparents prefer. Reviewing events and live view on a desktop with a TV screen is terrific. But if they need to save or share a clip. They have to bust out the reading glasses squint and fumble with their phones?
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Have you ever viewed a DRM-protected video in a web browser? You can play, but you canât download them; the browser publishers are bound by law not to allow their downloads.
Among other things, this is probably what Wyze is planning for SightSafe. People with Cam Plus subscriptions are asking why Wyze wouldnât allow them to download their event clips. That capability is probably planned for a more expensive subscription tier.
Several years ago, I bought software called Snag It which can grab anything on my screen. Since then it now looks like Snag It is subscription based now.
If youâre running Windows 11, that capability is already built in (Snipping Tool). Iâm sure there are free, open source equivalent utilities.
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And, it appears that this SightSafe implementation has broken the ability of this IDM software to download anything from my.wyze.com
Sad.
Thereâs a reason Wyze is light-lipped about SightSafe, despite calls to explain what itâs supposed to do. Iâm afraid SightSafe is aimed at more than stopping downloads. It looks like Wyze is trying to add security codes to the video clips taken from your camera so it ultimately owns the rights to them. Youâd need to eventually subscribe to be able to view your own clips!
I happen to install this utility in a different boot partition that I seldom use. I just tested this and itâs still working for me. I did get one unplayable file but every event clip I downloaded is intact.
I did a full uninstall of IDM, installed in on 2nd partition, and still do not see a means to download a Wyze Video from my.wyze.com.
Do you mind sending me the steps you are doing to make this happen for you. I thought I was able to right click on a video and copy itâs URL, but thatâs greyed out along with âSave Video AsâŚâ (This is in Firefox)
and same issues in Chrome:
Run IDM before you start viewing clips from Web View. Then select an event to play. When the clip starts, you should see a popup near the top right corner of the video player window that says, âDownload this clipâ or something like that. I tried screen capture to show an image, but it doesnât work.
Click that popup and IDM will show another window that lists the files that can be downloaded. There are 2, both are .mp4 files, but only one is good. Follow the instructions to download the listed files. The bad file I think is a placeholder to prevent right-click-download, similar to how a blank transparent image is used to cover a web image so it canât be downloaded.
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Download from Web View is at cameraâs full resolution. This is what I got from an event recorded by a floodlight pro:
Iâve used JDownloader 2 https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2 in the past and it works really well. It has a bit of a learning curve but itâs free and has been deemed safe but I AM NOT vouching for it
Also another free(hopefully still free) is XTREME DOWNLOAD MANAGER https://xtremedownloadmanager.com/
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