I am pretty much out of the loop when it comes to newer internet/computer goings-on. How do I get to the ‘cloud’ to see my ‘events’? I don’t even know what the cloud is. (there’s no telling how much of my activity has ended up there)

Makes sense to me. I love immutable rules. Can someone confirm that all streaming (live and SD) requires involvement of the back-end servers??

[image] coghlan: Can someone confirm that all streaming (live and SD) requires involvement of the back-end servers?? “involvement” is fairly vague so I’ll say yes. We do have to be logged in to a WYZE account.

The original post I responded to was stating that we directly connect to the V2 via wifi. This is not the case. We indirectly connect. This means we are authenticated then placed on a secure connection. We are never directly connected to our V2. The Live feed is a second or two behind because of the…

Good info. So, for live feed and SD playback, the streaming path is V2<->P2P<->app. That leaves event viewing, which presumably has the streaming path Wyze<->P2P<->app. Is this accurate?

Both of you folks are still just describing it… strangely. It IS a direct connection to the camera. That’s what “P2P” means. It sets up a session and then gets out of the way - this not coincidentally significantly reduces Wyze’s server requirements. The video stream data flows directly between …

Zactly, P2P = Peer to Peer, a direct link.

Ah, okay. It makes sense that P2P just acts like DNS and isn’t actually on the data path of the video stream. That changes the data paths to: V2<–>app (for live feed and SD playback) Wyze<–>app (for event viewing) I think this is the mental picture most users need. As a data protocols gu…

[image] angus.black: Zactly, P2P = Peer to Peer, a direct link. In the sense that there is no intermediate active participant, yes, but the connection would certainly traverse multiple hops between each peer endpoint.

That would depend on where you are in relation to the camera. Within your own LAN, not many hops. I haven’t tried disabling data on my phone and Internet on my router. Hmm…

[image] coghlan: Wyze<–>app (for event viewing) Yes, because the clips are actually stored on a WYZE server not the camera.

Ok, I'm ignorant. Cloud? What's that?

Cameras

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No it’s worse than that. Reportedly for Wyze you have to switch it to developer mode and wipe your Chromebook, or something like that.

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Ok, I'm ignorant. Cloud? What's that?

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