Is it possible to set up TinyCam to get notifications only when a person is detected?
I’m not a Tiny Cam expert. I have used it in the past on other cameras but I just revisited TinyCam to see if the Wize cameras worked.
I don’t want to leave a server running for Tiny Cam detection so it’s not really for me.
I guess sort of? They have Face Detection using Google Play Services. I don’t see anything about person body detection but maybe a TinyCam user can comment.
https://tinycammonitor.com/manual/camera_motion_detection.html
You can set it to alert you on motion detection and/or object detection. Objects are a choice of Person, Pet and/or Vehicle.
One question. Do you know? Will the TinyCam pro version sideload to a firetv and work? Old versions did but it’s for sale now by amazon.
I asked the TinyCam developer on this forum and he said that even the free version will work when sideloaded on Firestick. Wyze app, by the way, will NOT.
Thanks. I was referring to he Firetv sticks. I tried the Free version of TinyCam and it doesn’t install, I used apps2fire on my phone to sideload and install. It fails on installation.
Amazon list the free version as not working on the Firetv sticks.
well… I was going to say yes, but decided I should try it again myself since it’s been a while since I did this.
apps2fire failed for me:
I’ll try again when I get a chance.
TinyCam Pro is in the Amazon app store. You don’t have to sideload it.
Yes, I saw that, but I expected to be able to use my existing “android” license. Perhaps that is not allowed?
No and that is annoying.
That is what I have been advised by Wyze…not available outside the US and Canada with no plans to do so…
Typically it is enforced by the shipping or billing address being outside the US or the bank on a debit card not being a US Bank.
My brother-in-law in Singapore has gotten around such restrictions by having a US Bank issued debit card and using a friend or relatives US address.
There are even mail and shipping forwarders that give you a US address to use that automatically redirects to your real address. They accept packages and letters on your behalf then forward them to you. For a fee of course.
Agreed! Their S3 storage costs are probably pretty high because of all the false-positive bug videos. That could be the low-hanging fruit their engineering team can work on to save some unnecessary expenses.
Additionally, I wouldn’t mind installing a small distributed package (via Docker?) on my unRAID NAS and computers to help off-load the compute cost of AWS. We are a family, right? Let’s help each other! The videos can remain encrypted to keep privacy intact. Perhaps this could be a model of giving, those of us who can help with processing power, free Cam Plus accounts (aka Community Compute Champions…or some other fancy name) for those of us who can help off-load the compute cost.
That was exactly what I had when installing the Free version
But then I have to buy it twice once for Android and once for the firetv stick
That’s not what the author said when I asked him here:
And here’s where @sodcam checked with him about keeping Wyze credentials:
You just got 10 MILLION dollars from an investor. Use that money to pay for the service you provide.
Oh by the way I never heard of apps2fire. I sideload things directly on the Firestick using the native Downloader app. Works fine (except that the Wyze app ends up stuck without mouse support). Still haven’t done TinyCam though.
Make that 15 mil.[Wyze Labs, Inc. closes $15 million in new financing]