Please add Time Lapse to L2 access (Contributor).
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Yes please!
On what controls to what:
My experience is only with the cams.
At minimum, only the Owner, person who added the item, is allowed to change anything. Everyone else can only view, no sound or anything else.
Following that:
L1 is the owner. They have everything, including remove the object from the account. This is the only level that can allow permissions for view only and “other” such as notifications or sound. This should be the person or account that added the device.
L2 is User: For only their access, can always view and can turn on or off any of the “other” permissions for their use only. Does not effect other user or viewer accounts.
L3 is Viewer: They can only view the camera, no sound and no other abilities.
I think it would be nice to allow a single account to have multiple log ins or access to the Wyze products on the main users account. I;d like my wife to be able to use the scale, and let her information be private to her. I also would like her to have full access to our cameras for using their full capabilities such as recording on demand, etc. I have shared the account with her, and she logs in with my user name, but still can’t do anything but view the cameras. If there’s something I’m missing, please share with me.
Thanks !
Jimmy
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I only had one Wyzecam and recently acquired two more. I’m planning to get more in the near future. I’m coming from Yi cameras world BUT I love Wyze world now and all its products and their integration with Alexa. When sharing a Wyzecam with someone else I wish there was an option to chose what things can or can’t that person do. Maybe a simple “Notification Only” option but not Admin rights(ability to change settings that the Admin User does not want) (I hope I am explaining this correctly)
My wife and I both have the Wyze app, but she only wants notifications sent to her phone when motion is detected from a certain camera and I want notifications sent to my phone from motion detected from all the cameras, but when we turn off notifications on her app, it turns it off on mine as well. She also wants the option do be able to see all the cameras when she wants, same with my account.
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I would like to be able to share a wyze cam with my family, but I also want all of them to be able to view the playback from the SD card if there is a way to do this let me know!
It would be really nice if there was a way for the person your sharing a cam with to view the playback from it. Possibly a higher sharing level or be able to use the wyze scale for different people on the same
Account.
Is it possible to disable notifications from a shared device and not disable it for the owner?
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Unfortunately, I don’t think this is possible at the time. It would be very nice to have that option though!
Hi!
We have 31 Wyze cams in a few locations. If it weren’t for Wyze, we would not be able to do this. We are in El Salvador, and apart from “normal” reasons we are in a tight lockdown since mid march and they are VERY useful.
I’ve shared some of them with people, and I just ran into a situation where one of them had been turned off by accident by someone else.
I have seen other threads
Heads up! - security risk on shared wyze cameras in which many people suggest not sharing with people you don’t trust BUT- what if the person just doesn’t know they’re turning the camera OFF?
So- suggestion, and I think either could work:
a) Preferred- disallow “shared” users from being able to turn off your cameras (and event recording for that matter).
b) Log every time someone turns off a camera- timestamped with the user name.
Thanks for any input or advances with this!
Jon
Hi Jon,
The simplest way I have found to provide view-only cam access is to do what @angus.black recommended and use a $3.99 Android app called “tinyCam Pro”. Many thanks Angus!!
You can test the concept using almost any Android device you have handy before buying the Android TV box for long term running. You can set up all cams in all locations from your one location. The Wyze cam stock firmware and 2 Factor Authentication work fine.
Android TV boxes can run quite hot, so I strapped ours to the top of a cheap USB router cooling fan:
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07R3B3H28
Naturally, any cloud solution carries some security risks, which are discussed by the tinyCam developer, @alexey.vasilyev in this thread:
My conclusion has been to use the cloud for outdoor cameras only.
Setup is straightforward and we have had no problems - but we don’t have 31 cams… 
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Is there a way to see a view history? By
veiw history I mean a log of when shared users have viewed a device.
Would be nice to have a log of which cameras have been recently viewed remotely, by who and when.
In Events I have a Playback button that shows the recorded video at the time of the event.
I have shared the camera to my wife but she does not have a Playback capability. She gets a message that says something like it is not possible. Is there a reason she cannot have this capability?
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She has to sign in with your login/password in order to see playback. It just how they set up sharing, no technical reason that I know of.
Thanks. It seems to me it should be a good option if I, as the administrator, grant it to the others. It can’t be all that you can’t be all that complicated since the capability already exists for the administrator.
Randy
This is a slightly bigger issue now. We got around it by sharing an account login, but with the band and the scale, you need to have your own account for them to track your data. I would be fine with the ability to just assign multiple owners, if that’s easier to implement. But a checklist of user permissions, would give more flexibility.
I’m quite frustrated that my wife (shared account) cannot view the playback of the recordings. Huge missing feature! Without this, I’m going to have to return the cameras as that was their entire purpose.
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I agree. Before my wife was logging in as me but since we got the Scale and the Band we have had to create her own account. I’m really disappointed Wyze hasn’t figured a way to give multiple users full admin rights. I’ve got over 20 wyze products. Please fix this wyze!
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Why aren’t you both using the same account? Scsle and/or band?