Sign me up I have done hardware testing before and would love to do it again
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@bobes25 @mtreganza @rajkedda @fooeee Please check the thread before posting this response. Wyze has said that the only way to become a beta tester is to sign up for consideration. Simply stating in a forum you want a free product won’t work. Please go to Become a Beta Tester – Wyze
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Oh well I’m naive. I didn’t even know beta testers were getting free products. Hmm, that could certainly help explain why testers weren’t more critical of the kind of bugs / deficiencies people are reporting now in the field.
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Your cameras are unreliable, why would anyone trust a cheap doorbell. The other doorbell makers have great products and most are reliable because they are thoroughly tested and proven over a long period of time. The Wyze Outdoor camera is a complete failure what makes anyone think that a cheap door bell will be nay better. They rush their products to market then expect us to be Beta testers and then don’t even listen to our feedback. I have moved on from Wyze…
Thanks for your sad farewell note. You’ll be missed. 
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Well this is a honest but nasty rant, I have to say like any technology, it depends what you use it for? I for one have 5 cameras 3 computers, 3 phones, streaming room, and 6 echo alexas running on a 2400 bit encryption. and they work very nicely. Plus i help test their products, the scale went very well, and the watch is still a work in progress. I am sure in the future they will build newer products that meet the communities requirements, if they get a bunch of atheletes, I am sure they will gear thier designs and inventions towards making them happy and building an amazing line of products. Ring doorbell has a huge problem and it is recharging the battery! So many lazy people in this world have no interest in keeping up with a charging regimen! Charge the wireless headphones? Wireless phones? Wireless gaming headphones? Wireless speakers? Wireless watch? Wireless sensors? That is a lot of junk to keep up with, i have better things to do in life like inventing the future of humanity and protecting it from biological attacks in this country… i do not have time to focus on trivial charging regimens.
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Still keeping an eye out
That is what I am thinking as well. Wyze can just modify their V2 camera into another casting to work as a video door bell and add a device for push button to a chime. Maybe some improvement in the quality of the 2 way talk before launching.
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I tried to get in on the first round. I live on a real busy street where everyone walks by and I have a real problem with doorbell ditchers. At least once a week they hit my house. Usually elementary school kids since they walk right by my house twice a day. I have had to disconnect my doorbell because of them which is wrong and I would love to put one of these in so they will stop and you can see a lot of action in the beta version.
Wait so your solution to jerky pre-teen vandals is to give them something more valuable to steal? 
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That made me think of your previous comment:
So my first thought was that I guess in a way, if they were a beta-tester it wouldn’t be more valuable, right (it was free)? But then I guess it would still be valuable for the vandals to steal…but then again since you have to be an approved tester to use it, it’s back to almost worthless again…but you could scrap it for parts or wait until it launches…but apparently they’re just elementary kids who wouldn’t really know how to leverage that well, so back to worthless again…except for the fun they’d have getting away with it, that could be valuable…
So…I assume beta testers get to keep the product? What if the model changes by launch time, will the beta version still work? Do you have to then replace it with an official launch version? I know the WOC had several alterations throughout it’s development and testing…did they continually ship the new versions to the testers? Did the testers just ditch the old ones, or send them back or did the old versions still work?
Not that it makes much of a difference to me in whether I’d do it or not…QA testing is something I do professionally, and even if I had to ultimately by a final launch version after testing was done, I’d still do it. Just curious.
I was (and still am) a WCO tester. I got a 3rd version of the base and camera (maybe forth) in late December of 2019. I was a member of the last group of testers when Wyze wanted to have a larger group working on the final hardware configuration. And based on what Gwendolyn stated in her post from last week, it seems that’s what they are doing for the doorbell.
I was able to keep my test equipment. And the earlier testers were able to keep their first versions. BUT, it comes with the understanding that they may stop supporting it at any time. There are no guaranties. Both the base and the camera are still working for me and I will continue to use them until they don’t.
But, as a tester I knew that I wanted to buy the WCO bundle when it was offered. I like the camera. I am fully aware of its limits and drawbacks. I ordered 3 more stand alone cameras to add more coverage of my yard.
I would welcome the chance to test any new Wyze product.
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I’m not sure but I think the kids may just be ringing the doorbell and running away and not actually stealing anything? At least that’s what kids would do when I was a kid 
Yes but my only 1/4 serious point was that putting out an expensive doorbell may be counterproductive and present an attractive target for them.
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Wouldn’t it be great to have the video show on a big monitor near the door with the kids in the frame?
It would be nice but from my experience, streaming wyze cams to an alexa or google screen has been pretty slow to load. I would imagine the doorbell would have a similar speed.
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Gwendolyn - I would be happy to test the wired version. I have submitted an application as well.
Thanks.
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Awesome! I would love to test the Wyze Video Doorbell :). Hope to see a application soon!
I feel like I’m living in Groundhog Day…