I have the OG camera with Telephoto. I was looking for a magnetic mount option since I can’t install it on the rental apartment. Is there any option? I have a magnet on the house already just waiting to be used.
Not from Wyze, but you can get various aftermarket mounts on Ebay and Amazon. The OGs use a 4mm (M4) threaded mount. Or just get some of the magnets with adhesive on them and put them on the base.
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Thank you.
There’s ferrous material in the base of the camera’s pedestal mount. Have you tried applying a magnet to that? See this topic:
Have you tried sticking the camera on that to see how well it holds? It’s not something I’d be willing to trust with the wind we get here, but apparently it works well in the application posted over there.
There are 4 small screws in the base (for whatever reason it is two pieces of plastic screwed together). They’re under the 4 small rubber feet. I just tried and you need a pretty powerful magnet to get decent hold. Probably wouldn’t stand up to wind, but inside it would probably work with Neodymium or other decently powerful magnets.
The base doesn’t have magnets in it, so you’d need a magnet in the middle. Most likely the polarity of the screws in the camera and the door frame are the same, so you’d need to stick magnets to one thing or the other regardless (or glue two magnets together with their poles opposite).
Personally, I’d rather just go for some of the 3M adhesive foam tape. Harder to steal the camera and a more permanent (but still removable) hold. The grey outdoor rated stuff has worked well for a lot of applications for me, and it peels off pretty clean from smooth surfaces. The “command” strips would probably work too.
Another note - I was originally going to use my OG mount to mount my V4 (which uses a 1/4" threaded). You can get adapters on amazon to convert between the two so if you can only find what you want in 1/4, I know the adapter I was looking at was available in reverse too (1/4 female to 4mm male). Though at that point it might make more sense to just use some form of removable adhesive.
Yeah, in that other topic I mentioned that I’ve done this indoors (with Cam OG standard) using a magnet salvaged from an old mechanical hard drive. It’s an easy way to stick a Cam OG to another piece of steel.
I’ve used 3M Command Strips (I like the bulk packs of Poster Hanging Strips from Sam’s Club) for this, including a camera currently mounted on an exterior wall facing the deck that I put up several months ago and which has withstood the winter. In that particular case, I didn’t want to drill holes and wasn’t sure about positioning or how long I was going to leave the camera there, so I used 2 strips side-by-side (still attached the way they’re packaged) on the top and the bottom (4 strips total), and that mount still seems pretty solid. I expect that to peel away pretty cleanly whenever I decide to remove it.
In that case, if the goal is to use that existing magnet (and if it’s felt to be strong enough for the application), then I’d wonder about adding a larger steel surface to the base of the Cam OG, maybe using Command Strips or other adhesive to stick a big washer or something on the bottom of the pedestal.