One good usecase I found for 90 degree rotation is for something like mounting one of these to watch stairs.
For example, if I put a camera flush with my wall at the bottom of the stairs, it will only capture the door at the top along with about 3 steps. But if I rotate it 90 degrees, it suddenly sees 7 steps and almost all the way to the ceiling.
In the horizontal position, even if I rotated the camera downward a little to capture more stairs, then it will cut off the door at the top and people’s heads/faces. That is not a great option. but rotating the camera 90 degrees AND tilting it a little bit and I can still keep the door in frame, and people’s heads, and all the stairs at the same time. The downside is that now the video is sideways and looks weird on playback (I have to hold my phone at weird angles to view the video correctly).
Since Wyze teams do review the Wishlist sometimes, I just wanted to share a good example and use case of where this is helpful, especially since we were asked for more scenarios for this. For example:
I had a similar situation at my previous house. There was a narrow alleyway between my house and the fence, and so I tilted my camera 90 degrees because the narrow verticle FOV still covered the entire space between house and fence, but having it tilted 90 degrees allowed me to see all the way down and all the way up a lot farther to keep people in view better in that situation.
Basically, any narrow area like a hallway, stairway, alley way, etc, or where a person will be coming close the camera (to keep their face in view better), then 90 degrees seems to be a better option. Granted, this is not as commonly needed as the regular positioning that has more pixels in a wider view, but there are still some good use-cases for this and I thought I’d share one I just came across today.
This was my original disappointment with wyze. I bought the v2 specifically to view the covered front entry which requires a vertical orientation to view both faces at head height as well as packages delivered and left on the landing. Doorbell is on side wall and does not have a good view which was confirmed when I got one for beta testing, it does not view below the knee, and misses viewing approaching people so most clips just show them briefly bending over to place the packages. Anyway, it never dawned on me the cam would not display as it was oriented - all prior experiences were just handheld cams which display whatever they view regardless how positioned, plus all our digital displays auto rotate vertical images. I guess my error was not asking first before buying. Regardless, I got it sideways since day 1 and it still detects people at least more than half the time. I’ve learned to just use full screen mode in the app when there’s a package so I can see it better. For my usage case, 90 deg would be a nice feature but not critical.
Fwiw, I’m beta testing another brand of cam and their app does not rotate image or event recordings 90 deg - suspect few do natively, however, many are easier to use with 3rd party software that can do the rotation.
Almost 5 years later, they introduced a lot of other cool functionality, many new devices, yet this very simple line of code is not getting added. I am not sure why. It’s really bad that we have to look at unnecessary image on left and right side when we can just hang the camera sideways and look at upright video footage on our phones on portrait mode.
What they are also missing is that when we mount it 0 or 180 degrees, and when there is a wall to either side, it shines the infrared night vision back at the camera, making rest of the image darker. By mounting it 90 degrees, we can eliminate this problem as well…
please @WyzeTeam fix it.
Which brand has the same functionality for similar price? I am genuinely curious. I thought about getting PoE cameras actually, but I would have to completely get rid of Wyze ecosystem I am just too invested at the moment with 8 cameras and door locks and robot vacuums… So I am not sure if it’s worth trying to start over, but just this one simple thing of 90 degree viewing bothering all of us so much , not sure why they could not implement it, maybe at least for Cam Plus customers?
MrUnifish
I know it’s not an easy solution but if you are on android, if you rotate your phone, then lock the rotation and rotate it back, you can see the footage in portrait mode, it’s a hassle but at least one way to see the footage a bit better.
After reading reviews online of various doorbell cameras, I bought the Wyze Video Doorbell Pro because we’ve got other Wyze cameras in the house (and a vacuum). Unfortunately, NONE of the reviews mentioned the lack of a 90 degree rotation option. Our existing doorbell that I’m going to replace is sideways. I want to mount this sideways. It’s such a SIMPLE option that everyone else does and I can’t believe the option’s not there in the app. I can rotate other cameras 180 degrees…and yes, 180 is easier to do in software than 90, but it’s not like 90 is some insurmountable feat.
This really needs to be supported (rotate 90° clockwise or counter clockwise) aspect ratio is a mute point for this as it does not matter, wyze can keep their existing landscape format, but allow rotation of 90° (I don’t care if it looks like portrait as far as aspect ratio goes "and I’m pretty sure no one else will either…
Please get this done ASAP (as far as programming this goes, it should be fairly simple and straight forward for any of your developers) I know because I am also a developer.
This is a must have… Your competitors offer it! There is zero reason for wyze not too.
I’m honestly flabbergasted this isn’t an option (to the point I want to cancel my pro subscription and buy cameras from your competitors instead.
Not.to mention night vision on the cam 3 is a joke, especially when comparing to a $20 pan, tilt, rotate lightbulb camera that has remarkably great night vision by comparison…
I love my Wyze cams but I have one mounted sideways. While the image can be flipped if mounted upside down, I don’t think it can be flipped 90 degrees.
Can this feature be added?
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Oh I have that app too, I bought it a while back but it’s very slow to load cameras, and of course we are missing all the features like rewind, etc so naturally we would all love to get the native app to allow 90 degrees change.
This is exactly what my problem is. It doesn’t seem that difficult to add. Shame on Wyze for not adding this feature 5 years after their customers asked for it.
I have been researching it for hours today, and I can’t find it with any other brand. It blows my mind. If I do find one, I’ll come back here and update.
Please fix the software so we can rotate it 90 deg. I just bought another new camera (OG) hoping i could get more coverage but it was a waste of money and will not work for me without being able to rotate 90 deg. There seems to be plenty of customers requesting this option.
It’s truly mind blowing why they can’t make this with majority of the people today check their streams from their phones, and it could just be a portrait mode view instead of sideways having to look at walls or random area, not to mention the glare from night vision/IR when we mount it that way.