What is the difference between Cam v4 and Cam OG besides the stand?
This is slightly outdated since Cam v4 Black has been introduced:
Now I see that it’s also inaccurate, because it says that Cam v4 uses a “1.8 m USB-A to USB-C Cable”. Ugh. There’s another 
ticket for me to open with Wyze. They really need a better process for contacting their Web content team, because so many things on the Help Center site are just broken and/or wrong.
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The v4 is a hybrid of the OG and the v3, with a higher resolution (2.5K QHD) image sensor.
There is a youtube video where you can compare the image quality between the two, honestly the OG mostly wins out, at least in my opinion.
The increased compresison on the v4 to try and keep the bandwidth it uses the same as the 1080P cams essentially negates any benefit of the increased resolution. Plus the higher resolution sensor is not as good at night as it needs more light.
The user interface is a combination of the two cameras too, the timeline is the v3 style but it supports picture in picture like the OG does.
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I think perhaps they’re similar but not the same. My understanding of the Cam OG and Cam OG Telephoto PiP is that it’s a capability those camera models can share in any combination via an in-app slide-out drawer in a Live Stream view and that it’s available while the Wyze app is active on the device screen, whereas Cam v4 (and a few other Wyze camera models) has more of an OS-level PiP capability (on Android via Special app access ➜ Picture-in-picture; I can’t speak for iOS) that gives the user a floating viewer window even when other non-Wyze apps are active on the screen. I have only a single Cam OG, though, so I haven’t actually experienced the feature with that camera.
That is so cool! I have a V4. How do you do it?
Never mind. Got it. It’s on the live view screen. Very nice.
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It is pretty cool, and I think it’s a relatively new feature for Cam v4. In my experience, performance is a little flaky the way it works in the v3x app, but works better and as I would expect with the v2.5x app.
Yeah I don’t have a v4 so probably misinterpreted what someone else was saying about PIP. So it sounds like it is basically the v3 interface but the app has added the ability to do the native Android/iOS PiP (floating view, overlay, whatever you want to call it). I find that feature annoying and have turned it off globally in Android OS.
On Android there are “Widgets” available for Wyze which would do something similar to the iOS screen shot without having to enable the PiP, but I haven’t been able to get them to work reliably. I don’t personally need a constant live view anyway so haven’t really toyed with it too much.
It’s because Wyze’s implementation blows. This is one of the things I’ve requested that they work on in future app versions.
Annoying is an understatement 
Done. 
The widgets are great when they work (which they don’t really for Wyze). But the PiP thing that came out a few versions ago is just plain annoying and even dangerous in some cases. Maybe I’m just too old for that sort of multitasking but it is always covering something you need to get to.
I remember the first time it happened I was using Google Maps navigation while driving, and went to switch to my music player to skip a song, and it was covering the play controls (yes shouldn’t be doing that with driving but usually just a couple taps without even having to really look at the screen). I gave it some time to see if I’d get used to it, then found myself disabling it for some apps, then eventually for everything globally. I would much rather just switch back and forth between apps.
I’m not a big video caller, I guess that is one instance where it could be useful, but again, who wants to multitask like that. If you are busy doing other stuff in other apps, why are you attempting to talk to someone?
I think it’s a Gen Z feature 
The music player I use (Musicolet) now integrates its play controls into google maps so switching isn’t even needed anymore, which is great. I’m sure plenty of music players do this now. My car is old and doesn’t have android auto so really only applies there, my truck has AA and also its own USB music player with steering wheel controls so no need to touch the phone at all.
I can see it useful on computer monitor or a TV screen, but not on a phone with limited screen real-estate.
My car is also old (2016) pre CarPlay so I bought a Bluetooth CarPlay/AndroidAuto screen. It’s all Siri enabled no need to take my hands of the wheel. Thank God, Wyze is not compatible with it
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I thought you said the OG cam is better than the v4 as far as view quality.
Just curious how you determined that.
You usually offer quality information. Just curious as I don’t have an OG.
Please forgive me if I confused you with someone else.
Android also did add a split screen feature at some point which is potentially more useful as nothing covers up something else, however as you said, the screen is just too small for it to be useful. My truck’s android auto will do a side by side split screen which could potentially be handy, but I found myself accidentally enabling it and having to figure out how to get out of it, so I ended up globally disabling that too. One screen at a time is plenty for me, I can switch back and forth if needed.
My car is a 2008 unreasonable sports car that only gets used for 6 months/1000 miles a year at most, and the touch screen is integrated with the heads up display and steering wheel controls, so not going to mess with it. Usually the phone just goes on the passenger seat but I do have a cup holder mount for when I want to use google maps (the built in Nav stopped getting updates in 2016 and likes to show me driving through fields and water when they’ve moved a road).
That guy that does youtube comparisons of all the Wyze cams (walks around with the license plate etc). Forget his name. When the v4 came out he compared to the OG and I believe the v3 and v3 Pro also. The v4 vs OG one was where I determined there was no sense in upgrading.
From what I saw in that comparison
Daytime still frames - v4 bit better clarity, due to the QHD resolution.
Daytime with motion - maybe a slight edge to the v4, but the increased compression to keep the stream size about the same mostly negated it, it was pretty comparable to the OG.
Night (both color and IR) the OG looked better to me in both cases, which makes sense as the QHD sensor will need more light than the FHD one.
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