Looking for ideas, not locked into an approach.
I used to “live” monitor my cams from office via wyze.com but domains now blocked at my location.
Cams still visible via Android App (but don’t have that at office) and on home tv via Alexa on Firestick (Google Home involved).
I remember awhile back that snaps and/or vid captured by movement triggers would show up on my Google Photos. I can access Google Photos from office and viewing captures even delayed would be better than nothing. I don’t recall how to enable that.
Other ideas welcome, but basically something to let me see what was captured on cams in office environment. Even sending emails with attached photos to my work email could be reasonable.
Many work locations block all forms of video streaming. This is especially true for government and military offices. Instead of attempting to circumvent policy, your best bet is to contact your workplace network administrator for access.
I agree with @Seapup’s advice as probably the easiest solution. Without knowing more about your particular circumstances (like why a phone/app might not be available as an option), I don’t know what to offer for specific solutions.
I suspect that you had the backup feature enabled in the Google Photos app and that whenever you saved a photo or video manually from the Wyze app (using the Take Photo or Record control on a Live Stream screen) Google Photos would incorporate that into its album and then it would be copied to Google servers.
I imagine this is technically possible if you want to get third party automations involved (something scripted in another app, like on a spare phone you leave at home, and/or setting up a home automation appliance to consume video from Wyze cameras and act on notifications), but I haven’t attempted anything like this and would expect it to be at least a little complicated.
Thanks.
I am in one of those places and they’d typically rather not make exceptions any time soon, so I’m assuming that they won’t (although they might).
In the meantime I’m not trying to get around the spirit of the live video streaming blocking. Its entirely allowable to receive emails with photo attachments, and to browse my Google Photos library from here.
I’m not allergic to scripting/programming at all. its my livelihood; but no experience in this particular category.
My wife is not mobile and it would be very useful to be able to make sure that the hired help is coming and leaving when scheduled.
The Wyze app has no features to provide what you’re trying to achieve. There are 3d party apps that can process the stream and automate cloud storage for remote retrieval or email snapshots, but it’s not simple. We have a wishlist topic requesting that Wyze implement a similar feature. There is some good info in that topic with links to 3rd party solutions: Email notification with attached snapshots/photos/video taken on motion detection. If you have a friendly network sysadmin and explain your use case, they should be able to help set you up. They’re probably doing the same.
