We are taking a poll to see what kind of skins users would prefer for the Wyze Cam Pan v3 and Wyze Cam v4.
You can see examples at the following website. OnePlus 12 Skins, Wraps & Covers » dbrand these are for the OnePlus but they give you an idea of what they would look like.
Other: Amusement park. In anticipation of the second half of 2024.
Earnest vote: Black camo. Could change.
There’s no “uninstructed delegation” option? (I guess we’re not in Wisconsin, eh?)
I thought the random stickers included in some Cam Pan v3 packages (at least as I understand it) were kind of a clever idea, and I can see little quirky things like that being part of Wyze’s fun image. I also appreciate that Wyze offers some devices in alternate colors (one of my Cam Pan v3s and Cam OG are both black, and I would’ve picked up one of the v3s in blue if I had a compelling and timely use for one), but I figure an enterprising user who wants a particular camera to have a unique look will probably go the DIY route with paint or markers or stickers or whatever. I’m not really sure what purpose a skin serves, so I’ll just leave this comment in place of my vote abstention.
Examples of these color names would be helpful… Also this feels very random. Are there actual plans for new skins? Has this been a big ask from customers? It would be nice to know a rough idea that there are plans for skins in 2024 etc
See the referenced website.
If Jason is posting, then yes.
Considering they listed a specific business with specific skins from that business, I would say the inductive logic here says that’s a pretty solid YES that they have been in contact with this partner to potentially design skins for them and that they are likely to only choose a couple of the most popular skins to start with or they wouldn’t be doing a poll.
What do these folks have in common?
Impeccable taste. 
Y’mean like chicken? 
A little too ‘passive’ for my taste. 
Plain White.
Focus on internals, improving camera firmware.
I do like the black cameras that I have, and I would’ve picked up a blue Cam v3 if I had a compelling use case for it. I also like my green Buds. I don’t think having a narrowly limited color choice is unreasonable, and it breaks through the blandness of white (which now makes me think of when nearly every PC on the market was the same monotonous putty color), but the skins don’t appeal to me at all, and I agree with your comment about focus.
I hate to be devils’s advocate, but here I am I’m going to speak my peace. In times when Wyze is facing so many customer complaints about connection issues, haphazard notifications and cloud recordings just to name a few, do you think it is a good idea to venture into something so trivial as Camera Skins?
I know it’s cute but come on?
Skins won’t make Wyze step up to the competition.
Features that competition (think Tapo and Reolink) is offering right now, might kill Wyze.
Those are things that Wyze needs to focus on, not skins!
Go ahead, blast me with whatever you have, but I think I’m right.
I used to be not at the front and not at the back of the Wyze parade, but lately I’m slowly sliding towards the back.
Wyze needs to wake up and smell the roses.
Here I said my peace
Oh! Fun devil’s advocate! I’ll bite. Just for fun, my long time forum acquaintance. 
(note, this is just in good fun since you rhetorically asked someone to)
One could easily argue that skins will make no negative impact on any other issue, including those listed. It’s not taking away resources from any dev or technical team that could address any of those issues you feel need addressing. No devs are needed to help with skins. Marketing Staff can’t do anything about technical issues. Not all employees can be converted to do highly specialized technical work as was listed. There are lots of nonprogrammers working for Wyze. They need things to do as well. There are lots of different categories of teams at Wyze.
If Wyze stops all production on new products they’d likely collapse just like dozens of IoT companies before then that went 1 year or more with no new product launches. IoT companies die every time they stop new product launches for very long. This is particularly true for any that operate on low profit margins. There’s an entire graveyard of companies that listened to advice to stop launching be products and they basically all die off… and quickly…
No, stopping is not the answer IMO. I don’t want my entire Wyze collection to stop working just because Wyze stops launching new products. And to be honest, it doesn’t need to stop. Different teams for different things.
I agree they could increase their dev team and devote more of them to ongoing improvements, but none of the people capable of that will be needed for a skins product. Camera skins will not be tying up limited developer resources. They also will not be adding to any technical debt or anything. It will simply bring in a little more income, which actually helps to be able to afford more resources for other things.
Honestly, if you really want them to free up devs to work on the issues you listed, there is almost no better option than supporting and encouraging Wyze to pursue non-technical additions to their offerings EXACTLY like these skins. There is zero downside and zero impact on Dev teams. The skins can’t pull devs away from other issues they need to address, but it will allow Wyze to continue offering something new and give something to some other non-dev employees to handle, etc. Personally, I only see an upside to skins with no downside and basically no risk. I actually encourage them to pursue this.
Do you still hold to your same initial impulse, or have I swayed you to reconsider your position slightly? 
You’re not going to get any pushback from me on the points you made. I’d give a second 
if I could.
That’s actually a fair point, and it’s good to make that distinction since the initial post referred to another Web site, indicating that a third party would be doing the actual work for something like this. Still, I can understand why it feels like a needless distraction and an unfortunate shift of focus when there are so many actual issues that could use attention.
As usual, you make other good points, as well. Personally, the skins aren’t my cup of tea, but that’s the great thing about situations like this: We all have a Carverofchoice. 
Let me be frank, I don’t disagree with any of your points, as always I totally agree with your points of view. However, lately Wyze has lost its focus. I have nothing against skins, heck, I even voted for one of them.
The point is, perception. There are thousands of disgruntled Wyze customers with tons of issues and the last thing they need is another nail in the coffin. To me that how skins feel if I had any of the issues that hundreds if not thousands of customers have.
Totally agreed, but instead of hiring or devoting resources to trivial things like skins, why not using that money to hire additional devs to fix the issues? Once the boat is sailing smoothly, you can start rocking it with skins 
To me, it looks like Wyze is putting the buggy in front of the horse. They should make sure that everything that matters is running as it should before moving to trivial revenue avenues.
Again, just my two (Canadian) cents
This very thought occurred to me while I was writing my previous post, despite the popular phrase that “perception is reality” (with which I generally disagree but understand the point).
Great reply with good thoughts.
Now, even though I acknowledge that we don’t have all the details at our disposal, if you were in charge, what order of priority would you consider giving to the top most outstanding issues? And why is that issue a priority over the ones other people think should be ahead of it instead?
From what I gathered on this forum, and believe me none of the issues affects me (except one camera on beta firmware, but I totally asked for it being a beta tester).
Fix all connection issues, There are people who can’t view their cameras remotely since the last outage. The forum is brewing with requests and complaints. I think Wyze should work harder on addressing the issue.
To me that is the most crucial issue that needs addressing. If any of my cameras becomes crippled and not viewable remotely, I’d set Wyze on fire.
Luckily I don’t have that issue but I really feel for all of those who have.
People made a choice and bought Wyze cameras. Those cameras need to work as advertised.
That’s what Wyze needs to focus on.
Matte Black, Green Camo, Arctic Camo.