MaxDrive by Wyze (Cancelled)

Hello! I would like to address a few of your concerns:

  1. Previous communications - Those you have been speaking to so far have been community members, and are not employed by Wyze. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

  2. MaxDrive website - This is the website for our partner on the MaxDrive project. In an effort to bring the product to our ecosystem quickly and to provide as stable of an experience as possible we decided to leverage their expertise. Before product launch we will be posting a product page on our website.

  3. RTSP - Due to hardware restraints the Wyze Cam v2 and Pan can only store the software for our current features + RTSP, or our current features + new features. This is also why the Wyze Cam v1 will not have RTSP access, it simply can not fit. We will be providing bug fixes for the RTSP firmware as needed.

I hope this helps!

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I was going to respond directly to the tirade above, but it is so laughable, I’ll pass. Just to be clear, my suggestion was about translating websites in foreign languages to English via a browser. I guess other browsers have plugins and tools for such. Anyone is free to use any browser of their preference.

I assume most of the responders in this thread are community members like me and do not work for Wyze. Neither is this an attempt to steer anyone towards Chinese sites or Google’s “data grab”. On the other hand, anyone so paranoid about these things would be better off in some off-grid Faraday-shielded underground bunker, rather than commenting on a public forum for a product we all seem to be very interested in…

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Back to your regularly scheduled topic :wink:

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I’m interested and signed up for Beta. Hopefully they will have a better way than the mobile app to buy it as soon as it becomes available. With the sensors I tried to buy one for days using the mobile app and I kept not being able to because it kept erroring out. Sadly I missed out and could not get me early access to sensors because the mobile app problems. Now I have to wait for them to go on sale :frowning:

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I bought my sensors using a Windows laptop.

Maxdrive is delayed.

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THAT is a big disappointment :disappointed::disappointed::disappointed:
/edit - thanks for the info

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Yes that’s disappointing , With that capability I would see no need for RTSP.
As all video would be available to all your devices off the drive.
How about working on the Maxdrive App, so that all cameras can backup to the 2tb hard drive
I have installed on my router, or any brand Nas
I am sure plenty of people have routers with USB Hard drives
The software is the Key

Support for storage on a NAS hard drive would be wonderful, regardless of the MaxDrive hardware itself (as I already have a NAS device).

thanks

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I will add that RTSP is now available and you can use it to support streaming to your own NAS. To use RTSP on a Wyze Cam, you need to flash the special RTSP firmware to the camera. Lots of info is available if you search on the forum for “RTSP”. The basics are here:

But RTSP requires us to step out of the normal stream of software improvement.

Indeed - because then you’re using your Network Video Recorder (NVR) or Video Monitoring System (VMS) to perform the functions you’d get in the software from Wyze.

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IF I understood everything above correctly, the potential options for V2/Pan camera firmware are:

  • Current features + RTSP, or
  • Current features + other features

… The latter of which would likely include the ability to save SD content (on a ~1 minute delay) to ANY Samba network path?

If so, it seems like the only reason to delay a Samba-save feature would be to pair it with the release of the MaxDrive hardware, which has its own delay going on. Technically speaking there should be no reason that a Save-to-Samba firmware feature should be tied to the release of the MaxDrive - it’s “just” firmware development.

But, on the one hand I can kind of see a business case for tying the two together. Features and integration can drive sales, and sales keeps a company happy and healthy.

On the other hand, it feels like there’s a really good user-experience case to be made for putting the FW feature out whenever it’s capable.

On the gripping hand, I’m just someone who would really like to use my standalone desktop with several TB of storage for something like this instead of “just” a media server and for the odd manual doc backup.

Alternatively, I could really get into a computer-based app/OS service that does what the MaxDrive does, on my existing computer. I have no idea what the MaxDrive enclosure is expected to sell for, but I think I’d be happy to pay some reasonable portion of that for a software solution that wouldn’t take up yet another outlet on my already-crowded outlet manager/protector, plus another of the dwindling number of ports on my network switch… Especially if it was able to tie into the existing Wyze app / account as the MaxDrive would.

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In another thread they mentioned that they would release SMB support so you could use your own drive. It would be released when MaxDrive is available.

I would like to see the SMB option come out before then as well.

To the Wyze people on this forum… Any chance this will make it’s way into the beta firmware?

Dave hinted today that MaxDrive is pretty much not happening. Is there more information on this? @WyzeDave I would like to know what possible other options would be for storing camera footage possibly if MaxDrive is no longer coming to fruition.

Our partner for MaxDrive fell through and we’re currently looking for other solutions for NAS capability. Sorry about this!

Oh no problem I am not upset. I am just curious on what happened. I know business is a pain sometimes. Is there a workaround by chance coming around or start from scratch again? Is this still going to be on the roadmap as a device that will be coming?

And what about SMB?

That’s disappointing for me, as I’m sure it was for the Wyze team. I hope work will continue on SMB compatibility since that would not be dependent on specific hardware.