I would like to know what updates and precautions Wyze is taking concerning these devices and the criminals using them
One thing they’re working on that can help is offline notifications. They have been implementing a feature where if your cameras stop connecting to the server, you would receive a push notification letting you know that your cameras are not connected. This will be useful if you are away from home and the camera gets jammed. But if you are at home then your phone is also going to be jammed. So, it is up to you to share the camera with someone who lives away from you who can try to do something about it if you get jammed (contact you and see it. You know what’s going on and if they can’t get a hold of you, maybe assume that you’re jammed or something).
Also, a jammer doesn’t stop the camera from recording to the SSD card, so make sure that you keep an SD card in the camera to continue to record even if a jammer blocks cloud recordings.
You can set up your own systems as well, so that if wise, a lot of your Wi-Fi devices suddenly stop working all at the same time, indicating there is a jammer in place, then it can send a warning through a wired connection to trigger and automation that makes a siren go off or something similar, And send a message out through the wired connection.
Wyze has also been adding support for wpa3 which stops deauth devices from kicking your cameras off the network. Deauth devices are actually more common than jammers, and easy to overcome if handled right. Most of the news you hear about people using a jammer is actually using a deauth attack. It is really hard to get a good enough jammer that will have a long reach and last long enough for the intruder to get in. Take what they want and get out. Must have a very far functional distance and aren’t very practical. People are actually using de-auth devices such as something they can wear around their wrist that looks like a watch. But that works a little differently than a jammer.
I would recommend getting redundancy anyway. Instead of having every single camera from the same company, get a couple of redundancy cameras from a different company. In this case, if most of your cameras are through Wyze, get one from another company that also watches over the same area and isn’t hosted on AWS so that it doesn’t get affected when there is an AWS outage. Also, have it be a power over ethernet camera that doesn’t use Wi-Fi at all and can’t be jammed. Redundancy is good.
To be honest, there is no absolute foolproof solution. If a thief really wants to get into your house, they are going to get in. Even if you prevent jamming, they can cut the power or They can use a pellet gun to silently shoot out the cameras. Possibilities are limited. In some ways, cameras are like door locks. They don’t necessarily make it impossible for a bad actor to get in. They just reduced the opportunistic appeal And generally help to convince a bad actor that there are easier options than you.
But if you were really concerned about Wi-Fi cameras getting jammed, then look for a power over ethernet camera. Those are basically the only things that are impervious to jamming. But somebody can just cut the internet or power to your house.