The video is copied to the cloud storage but NOT to the base station? The response above states the camera would have to be woke up, which is not accurate. The base station handles multiple cameras. It can be accessed separately from each outdoor cam. This seems to be a major oversight and rather disappointing. The flaws keep mounting up unfortunately as I purchased two and am excited to support Wyze.
The Base Station can not connect to WiFI and instead must be wired to the router. That significantly reduces the range of where I can place cameras. Only option is to run wiring to move base station further away from router if I want a camera anywhere outside…uhg
SD card in base station does not capture video that was captured.
So that effectively gives me 14 days of the my captured video before it disappears forever, or buy video storage.
So what is point of base station? What is point of putting an SD card in base station? Do more people buy a outdoor camera to do time lapse or for security purposes?
Correct, except that is also NOT copied to the SD card in the camera either. Events are stored nowhere but the Wyze servers (“cloud”). Also you can extend your base stations with a wired to wireless bridge or AP/router. And yes the camera has to wake to do anything except detect motion (and low power heartbeat of some kind to base station).
Edit: Apparently this is wrong. I give up understanding the restrictions / features of the WCO. Good luck.
If people would read the FAQ, there is a lot of good information… The SD card in the base station is specifically (and only) for backing up cloud events
When you are viewing the camera, in portrait mode, you’ll see a big green button with “View playback” on it. You’ll be able to select the date and time of video you want to watch. Recorded video shows in green on the timeline eventually. It sometimes takes a minute to show up.
Hi, I’ve reached out to support but no response. I have inserted a MicroSD (tried two) in the base station and it says It’s not available. Although it shows the storage status bar. Any thoughts? The format button doesn’t work either. I’m running the latest version of firmware.
Assuming your SD card is good, it’s probably formatted to exFAT standards. Your outdoor cam and base require FAT32 standard. If you have only a MacOS machine, try running Disk Utility against your card. Format to MS-DOS (FAT) standard. Follow this if you have a Windows computer, V2/pan cam or USB>SD card adaptor:
Assuming your SD card is good, it’s probably formatted to exFAT standards. Your outdoor cam and base require FAT32 standard. If you have only a MacOS machine, try running Disk Utility against your card. Format to MS-DOS (FAT) standard. Follow this if you have a Windows computer, V2/pan cam or USB>SD card adaptor:
This WCO has been a huge disappointment for me. Twelve second recording max. Even then it doesn’t get recorded to either scard.
I can’t tell you how many important events this camera missed.
I have 8 cameras and understand how they work. The WCO seems to do whatever it wants. Which is pretty much a whole lot of nothing.
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