Nope they are not. Wyze is Wyze in creating products that are not compatible with their own products. For them it’s a great business model. Creat a product that will not be compatible with our other products. We will just make the consumer buy the next version after next version after the next version. A great business model if you ask me. But as a consumer, not cool!
Cam - v3 solar panel compatibility
I’d love to have a solar power connection to the cam v-3 since it’s also outdoor capable. I have the solar panel on my other Wyze outdoor camera and it’s great. I’d love for this to work on the new cam v-3 but the connector for power on the bottom of the camera is an “L” shaped connector. Customer support told me that this currently is not capable with the solar panel.
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With the Cam OG being weatherproof it’s still difficult to mount it outdoors unless there is a weather-protected outlet nearby. If Wyze could develop a mountable solar panel that had built-in rechargeable lithium batteries or capacitors that can be used with the Cam OG that would be a great selling point for the cameras.
Someone just showed me they got an ad for this thing:
That’s similar to what I am looking for Wyze to make here…a solar panel with a built-in battery that supports pass-through charging (can run a device while it is being charged by the sun at the same time), but a battery and solar panel big/powerful enough to have a wired Wyze cam keep running indefinitely. I am thinking the above option is little smaller than we’d need/want, but I am not sure:
24 hours to charge?
For you smart electronically inclined geniuses…How much power would various camera models use in a day? How much would the Solar panel to charge up every day in order to keep the camera running constantly? Would Wyze need to build one similar to this (but cheaper), or would it need to be a bigger panel and or bigger battery just to be safe (such as to compensate for when there are more cloudy days, etc)?
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