Right off the bat there us no night vison its a flashlight further there not much hardware difdernece i cld use an esp32 and be cheaper and better and still have ai qualities and free localized service instead of ope. Unsecure ota and ip b.s. like this … i can stop ours hack them show windows on viewing end and its hackable with a cardputer or esp32 funny enough no problems no strugfle for 30$ anyone can hack a wyze cam witha 4th grade education, u cam , turn off , jam , even have pop up windows by using any wifi spam protocol and even gain leverage to get ur wifi credentials… this can be done by captove portaling and deauther… once they do intermittant deuather on the camera and run a captive portal then after itterations of allowing the cam to work and then not end user will more than likely click the captive porta and entern creds this will most likely give you the 5ghz wifi creds and 2.4 ghz creds as they are almost always the same password and wyze works on 2.4 only big mistake also im looking into why my cams break more during sales and holidays as well is why they just keep getting worst and if it is in the cameras hard wire firmware or a controlled tactic for sales
Please read what you wrote, and then edit the message enough that we can tell what you are saying. You ran sentences together, largely used no punctuation, etc. It makes it REALLY hard to read and understand what you were trying to say.
From the little bit I can make out, it doesn’t appear worth reading even if it was readable. Just another venting/ranting post full of inaccurate statements that isn’t actually looking for any assistance.
Wow.
Welcome to the community @jrfly2012
@habib may be able to help you. He speaks more than one language.
What alternative smart camera company/model did you have in mind that is completely immune to all of the above concerns while still providing all of the same functionality and convenience?
Yes, it is an IP camera that allows connecting to it through the internet, as do basically all of their main competitors. People can for sure buy closed circuit cameras, but that is not the market Wyze is targeting and is not what most of the people who buy Wyze cams are looking for.
FYI, deauth is not really a huge threat against Wyze cam V4’s if you choose to use it on WiFi 6 with WPA3 and MFP due to validating management frames and preventing spoofed deauth packets. If that is something that concerns you, I would upgrade your router and force the improved security management. Obviously there are always other ways around things including complete jamming, but the same would be true of any other device, including PoE/CC. They can cut power, jam the property to prevent messaging out of the house, go grab the the NAS/DVR, etc. Nothing is entirely foolproof. Nothing. To prove the point, researchers recently demonstrated that ANY camera, including local-only cameras, cell phone cameras, anything, can be viewed by a neighbor or car across the street using an antenna and watching the electromagnetic wave changes between the lens and the circuit board before it’s ever even encrypted (then they can reconstruct images and data). Anyone can do this with $2K worth of equipment to ANY camera even if it is closed circuit and Power over Ethernet with no internet access. Wyze is ultimately no worse off on these issues than all the other alternatives out there. None of them are foolproof. None.
This is why the number 1 rule to having a [smart] camera (even CC PoE cameras) is “NEVER put a camera in a privacy-sensitive location” (avoid bathrooms, bedrooms, and some other critical areas).
If there is some specific issue happening at the moment, I recommend contacting support and making an official support ticket since I am not experiencing any major issues with my v4’s or the other 50 Wyze cams I have at the moment, so there could be something happening on your specific camera that needs to be evaluated or considered for a warranty exchange or see if there is a WiFi or other connectivity issue happening.
I hope support can help figure out what’s going on for you, and hopefully it’s just something as simple as needing a warranty exchange or new router or something. I checked Down Detector and I am not seeing any other wide-spread issues reported yet. If there is something we can try to verify or confirm on our own cameras as part of whatever investigating you’re trying to do, let us know, but everything seems to be working okay here for now, so to add to your investigation, I am not experiencing the problems you seem to have reported above, such as things not working as well during sales or holidays. Do you by chance have Cable internet, such as through Comcast Xfinity? I know they do have more problems around the holidays because their daisy-chaining issues. That could explain it.
If it is just wanting to vent, that makes sense too. But just in case you were really investigating to see if others are experiencing the same thing, I thought I’d let you know I’m not seeing that. All 50 of my cameras had good connection throughout the holidays.
If you had another camera company/model in mind that is foolproof with no vulnerabilities or concerns from those things listed above, I’m interested to hear what you had in mind since I have cameras from 6 companies and they all would have the same potential security concerns. I don’t really know of any that I couldn’t say almost all the same things about. But I am open minded to looking into other options (as evidenced by the fact that I have cameras from at least 6 different companies right now). I have read about potential solutions for the spying on EMW’s before it gets to the circuit board, etc…but I don’t know any companies that have implemented those countermeasures yet, so I’d love to know of some affordable options making progress in these ways. For now, I mostly just keep cameras away from bathrooms and bedrooms, and that’s been a reasonable minor precaution for me so far. I also have a local docker that sends me a non-cloud-dependent local audible alert when any of my devices go offline (so nobody can jam or deauth any of my security devices or Wyze devices without me knowing anyway). But it’s good to keep up on other things to take into consideration. So I am open to things I should continue to consider.
Unfortunately I don’t recognize that language. It might be Klingon or Vulcan, but I don’t speak any of them
Unless you are an exhibitionist
Apparently even those with poor spelling and grammar, can hack a Whyze Cam