I had a very simple suggestion but they merged it into this discussion. All I want is the ability to disable notifications from cams shared to me without modifying anything about the cam itself. I have a few cams that keep an eye on things but a single busy cam that’s shared to me makes notifications worthless as they come in every few minutes,
Ironically, this discussion thread is doing the same thing to me with e-mails notifications.
Hi can you tell me what brand has the sharing feature?
Thanks
@pullie1 - ok, some clarity needed here…
First, the only brand we’re discussing here is Wyze.
Second, ALL Wyze cams can be shared so that other users can view the live feed and associated CLOUD recordings.
Third, NO Wyze cams currently allow shared users to view or save recordings that are stored LOCALLY (on the SD card) while logged in to the app under their own username.
This last item is what is controversial and what, for years now, has caused many of us a great deal of disappointment with the Wyze camera eco-system.
Hope this helps… 
Limited sound control
It would be nice to limit access to all settings for shared users.
Sound on the live stream is available to change right now by shared users. There is no current way to restrict shared users access.
Please help.
Wyze Moderator, I understand this is dofficult to implement but maybe one subset of it that affects, I think, more users would be easier in the interim? Seems that a lot is lumped under this one wish.
How about being able to filter/block notifications from a group of cameras? That would allow shared cameras to be grouped and then silence alarms just from those cameras.
This means the app only needs to check a Group setting when a cam has an event and push or not push a notification depending on that setting.
Seems like a good start to satisfy a good number of users.
Yes, I’d like to be able to turn on notifications for certain cameras.
This request has been there since 2018 and still not implemented. Such a fundamental flaw in the user permissions workflow. Had I known about this, I would have never bought Wyze system. I still have 30 days to return them. I really hope AT LEAST Wyze team shares that it is in their roadmap and when exactly is the plan for delivery of their first version with sharing permissions with other users – giving other users username and password is not an acceptable sharing feature.
“Guardian mode”
Greetings.
I am submitting a feature request for a “guardian mode.”
My dad (85 years old) had expressed an interest in some cameras around his house since he had a porch pirate early in the holiday season.
Unfortunately, the old dog does not have any desire to learn a new trick, so he doesn’t want a smart phone or tablet. As a result, that left me with few alternatives for him. I had considered setting up a Wyze account and letting him just use his web browser to watch the cameras, but I cannot set up cameras via a web browser.
I was going to create an account for him on my phone, place his cameras and then give him access to the cameras via his web browser, but the thought of having to log out of my account and into his every time he had a question or wanted something changed became challenging (he wants a LOT of changes!).
so… I currently have his cameras set up on his home network, but as part of my account. Now I can see his cameras and mine, change setting for him easily, and I have set up a link for him to view his cameras on his computer and showed him how to filter out to just his cameras.
I think having a “guardian” feature, where someone can set up a camera and have it as an isolated “envelope,” and allow my dad the ability to view his cameras without having to see mine would be a needed and used feature.
I have set up cameras at my in-laws as well. They are a bit younger than my dad (82!) but are at least tech savvy, so I was able to set up the cameras on their smart phones. However, it would be nice to still be able to access their config from my account, as I have to either log out of my account and in as them to adjust things, or drive over to help them out.
Mankind has literally developed Artificial Intelligence in the time since this feature request was posted…. May as well hand it off to GPT and fire the Malaysian chop shop this was farmed out to at this point.
Wyze Sharing should be READ ONLY
For the WYZE dev guys.
Why can’t the SHARING be more restricted?
Scenario
Let’s say you have a business and you are the owner of the one Wyze account and you have several cameras.
Then you add shared access to a “trusted employee” then later that employee goes rogue and breaks into the business over night.
The employee that has gone rogue, can view events and DELETE them.
This is crazy as anyone with shared access can delete their tracks.
Shared access should only be READ ACCESS.
Why is this an oversight?
I have noticed this for a few years now, why is it not fixed by now?
[Mod Note]: Your topic was merged to this Wishlist request for better visibility and consistency in grouping similar requests. Please remember to scroll up to the top and click the VOTE button to show your support.
I fully agree. But Wyze is is a home consumers company. We should have some limited shared options in the app. It’s been enough years, Wyze has grown beyond being just a small home consumers company.
I can understand the reasoning for some of these things not getting done. I don’t understand why turning off notifications for shared cameras isn’t happening. If you told me it’s too difficult to share notifications, I could swallow that more easily. If you can push a notification to another device, It shouldn’t be that hard for the secondary device to have an option to ignore a pushed notification from that shared device. That does not seem like something that would take a significant level of effort.
5 years in and this is still in progress? I don’t understand why this is not among the top priority while less necessary and non-functioning feature like Friendly faces was worked on.
Isn’t it a basic need to restrict access of the accounts I want to share to? E.g., I’d like to share my baby monitor to my parents, but I don’t want them to be able to move the camera around (I’m using pan v3). And same for sound and voice access. I don’t want my parents to accidentally press the button and speak into the camera which could wake the baby up. I don’t want my parents to always be able to hear everything in the room.
There’re so many other obvious use cases / reasons why customizable permissions is needed. Please Wyze team, listen to your users and focus on they key stuff.
Though my wyze cams have been functioning alright, this terrible sharing experience is the reason I can’t suggest Wyze to any friends.
This thread has become like that scene in Animal House where they take the losers to meet all the losers so they don’t scare off the ladies.
You’re not wrong…
Ability to TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS FOR SHARED CAMERAS
We need the ability to turn off notifications for shared devices. We can only turn off notifications for devices that we own, All it takes is one annoying device shared with us to ruin the app, forcing us to turn off all notifications for all devices to stop notifications from just one shared device.
New user. I hope this is still being worked on, it would be great to have other shared users in the household be able to view events stored in the SD card and tailor their own notification preferences for a particular device while limiting other abilities like changing settings on the camera or turning it on or off since they may be less tech savy.
My primary reason for choosing this company was the ability to use local storage and not be forced into another subscription service. There has to be a way for shared users in the household like a spouse, parent, roommate, offspring, sitter, etc. to have certain permissions available to them like reviewing footage on the SD card since sometimes the event is already over by the time live view is accessed. Shared accounts isn’t always possible like with an older parent that is not up-to-date with technology and can seriously screw up settings, or accidentally turn off things, especially when the main account holder is out of town and could have limited mobile services (out of the country/remote camping). I almost returned the products until I was made aware of this wishlist thing and saw it was being worked on…
Don’t get your hopes up. As far as I understand, it’s NOT being worked on. The company (and CEO) acknowledged the problem but has chosen to ignore their customers to seek more profits for themselves. They’ve said the resources couldn’t be allocated to do it at this time. That’s corporate speak for “we don’t care”.
What is the basis for that assertion?
That’s very unfortunate. Now I’m back to debating whether I should return the products and go with another company. It’s a shame, this one did stand out at one point when they were recommended to me by a friend who had been using their products closer to the beginning. It’s unfortunate that instead of focusing on what made them stand out, which was the ability to have easily accessible security without a subscription, they are going the direction of every other company. There seems to be a big push for a subscription service, which is disappointing. At that rate I may as well just pay more to add on to the doorbell service.