Exactly. I can’t believe they haven’t added this feature!
Good points.
I’m lucky I guess, in that I don’t need the camera for security/safety anymore.
They’re now used for wildlife spotting.
If I were still dealing with the caregiver situation I was in when I bought them, I’m really not sure what I’d be doing.
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Rotation on camera video
Will there ever be that ability to rotate display like 90 degrees, etc? It only allows 180 currently.
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If this can’t be an option right now due to the complexity of the programming and getting it to work right with ai detection schemes, then at least offer affordable accessories, like brackets and adapters to be able to mount the cameras to accommodate the current Wyze requirement.
I too would like to see this as a setting…
Side alley of my house, camera mounted sideways 9ft or so up from the ground to be able to capture 6-7ft or so width of walking space between the wall of my house and the neighbors. Having to mount the camera so the lens stays horizontal makes for a lot of wasted video footage and a lot of blind spots, especially closer to the camera.
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We sometimes have to mount the camera at an angle anyway.
Can you at least make it so the app remembers the rotation after the AI detection?
let the client do the rotation if the camera itself can’t
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App and client does rotation of video
In another probably not tag, there was a request to rotate video in 90 degree increments, citing that the AI needs to deal with it so it probably wont happen.
I think you could just have a flag saved on the device, and the client could show a rotated image… I can rotate video on my computer and phone, so do that processing on the client.
Don’t even need a flag on the device, just remember the view setting in the app.
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It is past time to add the capability to rotate 90 deg. So what if the format changes. That would more preferable than trying to turn your head 90 deg !
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I would definitely recommend the 90 degree rotation option, regardless of the aspect ratio issue.
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How is this not an option at this point? There are articles going back to 2018 for this feature. I have a terrarium I view the the camera and need a 90 degree rotation to cover most of it.
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While many of us would like this, there are surprisingly few companies that support 90 degree increments. Despite requests for this going back several years, Wyze has never committed or promised they would do this. This wishlist may never happen as it is listed as “MAYBE later” (“maybe not”). Considering it is not commonly supported with most competitors, I expect it will continue to not be supported. I think part of the reason for this is because of the experience they had trying a single camera that they rotated 90 degrees (VDBv1). There were a ton of constant complaints to Wyze support where people were upset that other 3rd party integrations didn’t work the same way (Google, Alexa, etc). In some cases they either refused to broadcast the camera due to the abnormal aspect ratio rotation, or they rotated it back crooked. It often tied up support lines, lots compatibility issues.
Then there is the problem of their app foundation having a lot of design debt and not currently being able to support varying layout options. So until they rebuild the app from scratch to support layout alternatives, if they enabled 90 degree rotation they would likely still be forced to least leave the camera view showing crooked/sideways in the app, which would cause a lot of people to be upset since it wouldn’t really be any different.
Despite the other concerns, I suspect the foundational layout barriers are the main issue here though. That’s not too say they couldn’t still make it happen by investing a ton of resources and man hours, but I believe it’s a lot more complex an issue than most non-IoT-developers realize. In addition to complexity and resource cost, there are other factors they take into account, including degree of impact, popularity, and several other things they use to balance out which wish requests get priority.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve long been advocating for this request. I have had several cameras that would benefit from it. I’d love for it to happen. But I suspect that it will not happen in the near future, and likely not before Wyze rebuilds the entire app from scratch with a foundation that more easily supports variable layouts based on settings.
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We’re ok with black borders.
Someone else said it was for AI and computing capability on the device.
The rotation can be done in app. Just have a flag set on the device for desired rotation.
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It is shocking that I googled this in 2024 expecting to have a quick solution and see this issue STILL OPEN. It is 100% possible through scrypted and homebridge / ffpeg, I just figured the hardware settings would be ideal, but, no. No RTSP, no ONVIF, no rotation below 180 degrees, no PoE offerings, a security nightmare that I overlooked in spite of ALL of this, but why, in 2024 would anyone choose Wyze?
Just got 3 Tapo C310s that have ethernet or wifi, ONVIF, RTSP, tripwire detection, 2k resolution, a spotlight, multiple activity zones, local sd storage, and much, much broader third party support…
FOR $38
can’t wait to officially delete wyze tonight. Also, while this part is subjective, the tapo c310 picture is SO much better (than the wyze 2k), and works in HKSV without docker or wyze-hacks – even though both are obviously 1080p in HKSV. (Only the picture quality is subjective – the overall better-ness is quite empirical and is,
objectively better).
I can’t believe I spent HOURS making the wyze garage door controller work with siri, when I could have gotten a shelly relay for $20 that was hardwired and open source.
For any and every use case, there is no longer a reason that wyze is a good option. They were for a long time, even with the lying, about security issues and all the other scandals, but not in 2024.
@WyzeDongsheng Please tell me you don’t still work at @WyzeTeam, 5 years after your first here on this issue, and thousands of angry customers. I’m not a customer after tonight, and I can’t wait to leave you forever, but I’m just thinking of all of the people that trusted you, and don’t have a few hundred dollars and a lot of time to learn ffmpeg and Scrypted/Homebridge. I’m an IT headhunter and know a dozen full-stack leads that could implement this by Q2 2024 – Wyze recruitment team – please reach out.
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oh and the one-line of ffmpeg that could make this work :
-c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuvj1080p -preset ultrafast -bf 0 -vf transpose=1
It works on every camera I have EXCEPT for wyze
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Scrypted + Home Assistant or HomeBridge my friend. Ditch the Wyze cams one at a time as you can afford to. It’s 2024 and there’s no reason to be locked into any ecosystem. With a simple Raspberry Pi you can run nearly every camera, and have it connect to nearly every ecosystem you’re in (alexa/google/apple)
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Scrypted + Home Assistant or HomeBridge my friend. Ditch the Wyze cams one at a time as you can afford to. It’s 2024 and there’s no reason to be locked into any ecosystem. With a simple Raspberry Pi you can run nearly every camera, and have it connect to nearly every ecosystem you’re in (alexa/google/apple)
Thanks for the information I will have to look into it, but it still seems to require additional expense of setting up homebridge on a constantly running device that you need to depend on. I am sure it’s more scalable and customizable, sadly typical wyze customer will not have the time or experience or patience to run something like that. Imagine telling my 60+ year old brother that he should consider homebridge, rPi, running wires, etc… and having to do the keep up, just won’t work. However I am sure it’s a better solution.
Regarding Tapo C310, you mentioned it has wired option but it’s not PoE, which I am shocked to see you recommend something that requires seperate wire to power the device instead of using POE that you can easily back up with a UPS on the PoE switch so your camers can stay online during disasters/putages or intentional power cut by the bad guys.
Most people are too deeply invested into Wyze ecosystem, which is not a bad thing if you just want to view something remotely, and the reason why they don’t even consider adding rotation by 90 degrees is because they feel if someone really needs that, they either should buy 2 cameras, or if they are tech savvy enough they will most likely go with another camera that costs so much more anyway or cumbersome to install. Having 20+ cameras with only $80 to $100/yr which is almost $0.01 per day to have remote access, notifications, cloud storage, I think that’s too good to pass, or to recommend something someone has to manually monitor.
I hope you get the point I am making as to why Wyze is just not even caring about this feature they probably think it’s just “niche”.
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One more vote for rotate 90°. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been done yet. Please just do something.
Even if it’s just rotated in the app and the stream is left alone, it would be better than having to fight my phone flipping orientation trying to look at it.
Even having an app wide toggle in settings that ignores rotation during viewing streams would solve the issue.
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The issue I have is that the PIR effective area needs to be adjusted on the sensor so that a portrait orientation will be useful. Having a front camera cover with the lens and sensor attached so that it could pulled out slightly, then rotated 90 degrees would be an easy fix. For those of us that use the cameras for security, aimed at doors and hallways, the portrait orientation is a must, and the PIR effective area needs to be oriented for vertical sensing. Right now if the cameras are mounted high enough to be out of the way, the PIR is on the floor with no detection for approaching triggers.
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How do we still not have the ability to rotate the video 90 degrees in the app? It’s 2024…. So busy pumping out devices, we forget some basic functions.
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Unbelievable, isn’t it. 
@razorseal @rbtcolquhoun @wykillin
two easy solutions:
- ditch wyze, i know, it’s a tough hit to the wallet, I was in deep with wyze, but it’s so much better with real cameras, not cloud cameras
- wyze-docker-bridge and then it’s a very simple ffmpeg flag.
It’s truly insane how easy this is:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=1" output.mp4
