Can we please get this feature for users we share our cameras with? Currently share with other family members in our house, and they do not get this option among other camera features missing too. For each shared user, the option could be there and managed by the main user account settings. For example, I am sharing kitchen camera with my wife (has her own account) and I’m able to toggle on or off whether she has full camera features or limited (the default currently). Thank you so much! 
We love our cameras. However there is a MAJOR safety flaw:
Only one admin is allowed and therefore only one person can use the playback feature.
If one person is out of town, or damages their phone/phone is dead, or their phone has no signal but mine does.,etc… there is no other way to check feedback!! This puts our home and kids in possible danger.
In a relationship there are at least 2 ADMINISTRATORS in the house. Facebook makes it possible for multiple admins on a page. At least they could make it to where there is a head Admin with possibility for them to add people to have access to features like playback!
On top of it…we have kids. Aside from keeping the house safe from thieves, etc., we BOTH like to keep tabs on our household/children. I shouldn’t have to call my husband when he is out of town for work (sometimes in places without signal/so I CAN’T call), and ask him to check playback.
Ridiculous. Please change this for the safety and peace of mind for families.
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Both “Administrators” can and should sign in the the account that has full control of the cameras.
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This seems to be a frequent issue with users – they find one way to do something then decide that the way they found doesn’t do everything they could imagine wanting to do, so they find their way to the user forum to suggest changing the software in various complex and often contradictory ways.
As Angus already pointed out, there is no reason why you can’t both access the playback – assuming, of course, that you trust each other and are both reasonably competent using the camera software.
There is NO LIMIT on the number of simultaneous log ins (actually I suspect there might be a maximum practical number, but whatever that might be it certainly exceeds the number of adults likely to be “in a relationship”).
If you want to view the playback, simply log in with the owner account.
You can both even be logged in to the same camera with the same account at the same time and you can both be controlling the camera – doing so might make you confuse each other, but it won’t cause any problems with the software or the camera unless one of you chooses to do something silly like turn the camera off.
Simply decide who needs full access to all the camera controls and functions – and who you trust with full access – then give that person or those people the User ID and password for the account.
That only covers users with fuill access.
Shared access is still a mess.
I know that the playback feature was there before, it was removed. I used it to test on one of the cameras I shared.
You guys need to address this issue now. We just got a scale, but my wife and I are both logged in to the admin account. However, now only one of us can use the scale because each of our phones is linked to the admin account.
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You can have and use more than one account. Just log out of one account and log back in with the other. Maybe your time is so valuable that losing two seconds to log out and log back in is an earth shattering burden, but really how often you you use either the scale or the few camera commands that require using the administrator account? If you use them twice a day, that is more than most people.
Thank you
Cg Krehely
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I want to see you log out and log in to the other account in two seconds. Not everyone is that fast like you and some people actually access the cameras a whole lot more often than twice a day, everyone’s situation is different. Just because you have no need, does not mean someone else doesn’t as well.
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Totally agree. These forums are filled with half baked workarounds that work for some so they believe should be a universal fit for all. Rather, they should be supportive because in most cases the desired features are truly essential features that wyze should have had from the very beginning.
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As for how often someone accesses their camera, there is no need to log out and log back in every time they access the camera. At most, ONE of the two users with the scale problem would log out and log back in when using the scale. With [Mod Edit] understanding of how the cameras work, the work-around is simple and easy:
User1 continues to use the existing administrator account for both the cameras and the scale. User1 shares the cameras to the new account created for User2
User2 uses the new account for the scale and for regular viewing of the cameras. User2 only needs to log out and log back in with the administrator account on those occasions when User2 wants to use one of the commands not available on a shared camera. If User2 does switch to the administrator account there is no need to switch back to the User2 account until he wants to use the scale.
User1 never needs to log out and log back in. User2 would never need to log out and log back in any more often than the number of times he or she uses the scale.
Yes, this is a “work-around” not a “perfect solution” – there are no perfect solutions that will fit every possible desire of every possible user. The purpose of the forum is not just to run up a list of trivial demands that the Wyze developers are supposed to immediately implement no matter who wants something different. One significant function of the forum is to let users help other users with alternative solutions or “work-arounds”
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It’s been a while since this post. Has the issue been addressed? I would like my son to have access to view but not the ability to turn off the camera.
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No, Wyze has not commented on the issue for some time.
The only way, that I know of, to allow people to view but not manipulate the cameras is to run tinyCam server on an Android device. I use an Android TV box.
It’s a bit more work for you but it can work well. People can view your cameras using any browser.
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OK, I have apple products, and I also don’t know what a tinyCam server is, so I guess i am out of luck until (if) Wyze creates a fix. Thank you for your insight and reply though!
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tinyCam server is just an Android app.
Google tinyCam
You can run it on a cheap Android TV box, <$50 with a keyboard.
Amazon Android TV Box
Once the box is set up you don’t need to keep it connected to a TV, just the Internet.
I doubt we will see a fix from Wyze that will address most sharing concerns.
They are planning to bring a PC/Mac/browser app out sometime. It may do what you want. It could be a year or more, no one knows, including Wyze.
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I started sharing cameras with my wife, since we got a wyze scale, which requires her to have her own account to measure to her profile. Now, my wife cannot change the camera settings anymore, since her settings look minimal in comparison to the setting I see for the same camera. How can I give her the ability to enable/disable event recording for a specific camera?
You can’t unfortunately. There’s a highly requested wishlist item to be able to add permissions for shared users, but nothing has happened yet. For now, all you can do if you need her on her own account for the scale is have her use her own account for the scale and whatever else needs the separate account and have her log off and log in under the main admin account for changing settings.