Wyze cofounder here with a strange question. If you could put a Wyze Cam into any object or thing in your life, what would you choose and why?
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I’d put one into me lol. Unfortunately i don’t have wyze anymore and I’m just stuck with two cameras and i have know idea why i don’t have it. I’m hoping the reasons given to me are not true.
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For security Cams, I would put one in a Clock or Picture Frame. For those that want Cameras to be more for security, adding a camera to these devices would allow you to monitor what is going on.
In addition, I primarily use cameras outdoors, so I would like to have a camera that can appear to be part of the environment:
- Inside a fake rock or planters
- Put in a Mailbox so you can see when there is mail or when it has been opened
- In an outdoor post light. Not necessarily a bulb, build it into the housing which then could be powered by Solar or Power if the light is connected to a power source. Mine is powered by Solar.
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I tried to think of something practical but I came up 
. I think Dave screwed me up with the phrasing “turn into.”
Last one:
I would make a v1 the third member of White Stripes. But for just one tune. Can you guess which one? 
I’m slowly turning into you
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Now I’m thinking of an Alan Parsons Project tune.
If it was small enough and had a reasonable battery life, I’d be curious about a Collar Cam for pets or…y’know…robotic dogs with flamethrowers. If the pet was an outdoor cat that wanted to hang around, say, a Wyze Bird Feeder, then even better! 
I’ve thought for a while (but haven’t yet taken the time to write my notes into a single Wishlist topic) that what I’d really like to see is a robot vacuum with a tilt camera (the robot itself can do the panning) where the camera is on the order of something like an OBSBOT Tiny size. If the vacuum is already using lidar to map and negotiate its environment, then the addition of a camera would provide even better information (assuming that on-board AI could integrate it), plus it could double as a sentry and be especially handy if it could be directed via voice commands to Google Assistant. Give the whole package the ability to navigate and clean stairs, and I’m in!
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Mailbox camera to know when mail has been delivered.
Camera in secure box on porch to receive packages. A temp controlled secure box!
Attach a camera to Wyze Robot Vaccuum to make the camera mobile and able to control and navigate the house!
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Oh, you just know I have ideas! 
(Nobody is surprised)
My first choice would be to have Wyze put a camera in a car! You know…like the top requested Wyze product on the wishlist that has never been done yet. 
The screenshot above is all time voted items on the official community wishlist. Notice the top 11 items are all feature requests, and 3 of them have already been granted, with 3 more listed as in-development/researching. The 12th most requested item is the first product in the wish list of top requested items, which makes it the top requested Wyze product of all time which has still not been done…people asking you to put a camera in a car. 
I know that’s not the answer you were looking for though, so I’ll list some other things that could be cool ideas:
- Mini-Camera embedded in a smart ring.
- While it could obviously be used for subtle recording in emergency situations, or when you get pulled over (without angering anyone because it’s unnoticed), alibi or proof of self defense, or as a deterrent for protection (a potential victim can tell a potential offender that they have been streaming a video recording live through their smart ring and having it uploaded live to the cloud, so they should stop before they do something that sends them to prison, etc. This could actually be marketed for things like to college campuses for people scared to be assaulted while walking home from an event at night. It could save lives. You could even integrate it into your Cam Unlimited Pro service as an emergency distress option where it turns on the camera in the ring when someone is in an emergency and wants Noonlight to witness or see what’s going on in case they need the police called. It could send the GPS location through the phone the Smart Ring is connected to.
- Another thing that would be cool with this mini camera embedded in a smart ring would be the potential to enable touchless gesture control for various things. I’m kind of surprised nobody does this for AR/VR yet (they should), but it could also allow gesture controls for the smart home in general, even just within the Wyze ecosystem, but imagine if you made it possible to integrate various entity or command controls to be accessible to 3rd pary API’s like Home Assistant so a person could have tons of touchless gesture control of their smart home for virtually any smart device from any company.
- Pet cameras - I’ve long been interested in watching people’s pet cameras online for a while. They’re fun. This could be attached to the pet’s collar. Having a gyro sensor could be cool (stop taking snapshots when the pet is still for so long, or only take a snapshot when the gyro vibrates). Then it would be nice if the camera could easily upload automatically to the cloud at some interval, or when taken off for AI analysis, especially by your Descriptive notification AI. You could even have the AI only report or highlight the most interesting snapshots of something the pet saw or did, recognize distress signals, monitor interactions with other pets, show if the pet did something it wasn’t supposed to, recognize object hazards (things toxic to the pet), record how other people treat the pet, and countless other things. It would be extra cool to have a GPS chip in it to attach GPS metadata to the image, and potentially a log showing where they went (maybe you could even use either Amazon Sidewalk, or Apple/Google Find My Device networks). It could be kind of cool to have a pet adventures album of saved thumbnails/screenshots.
- Some kind of Garden/Aggriculture Tool with plant diagnostics could be cool. That seems pretty niche, but an AI could analyze plant health using spectral imaging to detect nutrient deficiencies or pests, etc, to enable precision care.
- Furniture with posture correction? You could train a camera to monitor posture and ergonomics to alert people to slouching or suggest adjustments, or possibly even recommend breaks or something. Honest, I enjoy slouching too much to use this, but couldn’t hurt to toss ideas out there since I know a lot of people are obsessed with posture.
- Lock - It would be nice to have a camera in a lock, even if it doesn’t record video and only recorded a thumbnail image of whoever was locking and unlocking the lock that could be included in the notification of who unlocked the door from the outside (not manually from the inside). That wouldn’t use much battery life, but would be useful.
- Camera for a Bicycle (kind of a mix between a Go-Pro and a Dashcam)
- Small Camera to go inside something like a kitchen cabinet, mailbox, or closet or something rarely used. Basically a small camera that gets deeply suspended to have long battery life, but will record whoever accesses that thing when it is opened.
- Inside a smart light switch plate? If someone is already working with the electrical wiring to install a smart switch, then it could just be built to include a camera inside of it. Maybe even one that has a super wide angle lens or can be slightly adjusted. This would make it blend in better with normal housing expectations (vs having a big flashy camera drawing attention). This would work well for common areas like Kitchens, Dining Rooms, Living Room, Family Room, Game Room, Garage, etc. It could record constantly and double for controlling lighting, and you could even do some similar stuff for smart outlets that are integrated to work like smart plugs, but not be bulky sticking off the wall like smart plugs do because it’s built-in to the socket/outlet flat against the wall. The camera would still be able to see everything with a good wide angle lens. You could even make an outdoor version that would be pretty cool. Or an outdoor plug COVER that has a camera lens on the outside of the cover. Outdoor outlets are usually a little higher and can often see a lot of good stuff.
- Dash Cam. I already mentioned this, but I figure it needs to be represented officially in the bulletpoint list. Especially since it’s the all-time number 1 voted on product that you haven’t done yet. I know Dongsheng has publicly said he is fairly against this (he looked into it, and believes he couldn’t disrupt the market on this because there are so many great options at low profit margins that would make it hard to gain a foothold…but lots of people would still love a Wyze version for a multitude of reasons).
- Robot Vacuum with a camera to do AI detections to avoid liquids, pet waste, and things that will jam it up or other things it should avoid.
- Pool Cameras
- One that would watch underwater and alert me if a person or animal enters the pool. I would preferably like it to be integrated into one of the under water “pool lights” or submersible lights.
- Alternatively, it could be cool to have one in a robot pool vacuum to target specific debris.
- Alternatively it could be cool to have on a robot pool skimmer (the kind that move around the top of the pool and collect debris like floating leaves, bugs, etc). This skimmer could be solar powered and watch for a person or pet to alert about.
- An automated drone that can either fly around the house by itself and patrol as security, or one that can fly around the perimeter of the property in the same way, or simply hover above my house at a legal height and watch the entire thing, then return to charge on it’s own and redeploy by itself after fully charged. It could even take a daily timelapse snapshot of something.
- A Smart lawnmower with a camera. It can mow the lawn a couple of times per week (And use the camera while it’s mowing to help avoid certain obstacles That are always dynamically changing position, including people, pets, maybe pet waste left on the lawn, maybe toys that were left, etc), but on it’s “days off” it could run patrols to check out certain areas of the property, even though it’s not mowing. It could even take a daily timelapse of some plant or something.
Those are just off the top of my head right now.
Edit: I misspoke and mislabeled my screenshot, looks like Video Doorbell was higher on the Wishlist and a product not a feature, and was higher voted than the dashcam, though since VDB is already granted, Dashcam is now the highest voted product not yet launched, so my overall point is still valid)
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Car - Dashcam with heat signatures
Home security Drone as @carverofchoice identified.
Lawnmower as @carverofchoice identified as well
Lastly, because I have to support my brother @Bam laser beam camera made for sharks.
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A lapel cam to look into a politician’s heart. The metaphysical kind.
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What would be really great about something like this is if it could connect via HomePlug/powerline since it’s already connected to the home’s AC power, anyway. Maybe add in some Matter and Thread capabilities to extend the smart home’s internal network reach?
@R.Good, good call on the sharks with frickin’ laser beams!
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To recap:
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I would turn a baseball into a Wyze cam and throw it across home plate (a screwball.)
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I would turn a yo-yo into a Wyze cam and walk the dog.
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I would create a third member of White Stripes (for one song) and turn it into a Wyze cam v1.
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I would turn a lapel pin into a Wyze cam and peer into a politician’s heart (radical transparency.)
The frog rests.
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As long as the robotic sharks double as a pool vacuum or pool skimmer and can bite trespassers when the HMS is armed…that all sounds great.
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Might as well mention what apartment and HOA people are asking for; a door camera (or doorbell) with the bulk of its electronics inside, and only the lens and optionally audio component, outside. The existing peephole should serve both as a mounting point and wire conduit.
This I believe is a big market and there are similar products already out, but they’re mainly for the hobbyist crowd.
Although I’m neither an apartment renter nor in an HOA area, I would be interested in this product because it prevents theft of the doorbell models that Wyze currently has.
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The VDBPro has a security screw that keeps it pinned to the mount. A thief would have to spend a few minutes manually unscrewing that to take the doorbell off (or break the doorbell).
The Wyze DuoCamDoorBell requires a little pin to unlatch it (or break the doorbell, making it pointless to steal)…though if they come prepared, that’s easy to bypass.
Most of the Wyze doorbells have third-party anti-theft mounts available (ie: metal mounts that wrap around the other side of the door and nearly fully enclose the doorbell so it’s impossible to take out of the metal mount unless someone opens the door first. --Most people afraid of theft use one of these, and report that they work really well.
I’ve found the anti-theft measures Wyze uses to be adequate. Certainly someone could still slam a brick down on the camera to break it or something, but most of them have ways to make them pretty hard to steal and run off within a few seconds.
Having said that, I like having cameras that are not easily reachable, such as behind a window, or requiring a ladder to get to, so I totally understand the desire to have a peephole camera for added security and support that for that reason, as well as for those who have limitations from their rental contract or HOA. So a peephole camera is a great suggestion. Basically: “put a camera in a door.” That is definitely a next level higher security option since it’s not as easily accessible or noticeable. That’s a big benefit.
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First and foremost, I would like to see a peephole 
cam that looks through the exisitng door peephole. All hardware would reside inside the house/apartment. There would be no visable signs of a camera existing from the outside.
Other than that, …
A robot that can vacuum the house and mow the yard. It would have a camera and have a vacuum attachment and a separate lawn mower attachment. When job has been completed, the robot will sit in an electric chair to be recharged.
A solar powered quad-copter with a camera to circumnavigate the estate. It would have unlimited flying power during the day and rest at night. It could work on 2.4 GHz, 5GHz, or 6GHz.
A camera inside of an artificial, but realistic, Avocado. With optional solar panel.
A Wyze air freshener/air purifier with a camera for the mantle above the fireplace.
A Wyze camera inside of a Christmas Ornament.
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Lots of great answers already posted. I could not think in anything new, so let me share what I already do with my v3 cameras. Most of my v3 cameras are inside double pane windows. I am happy with how well the v3s work aimed through glass.
The Why? Because I did not want to mount any camera outside my house.
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Likewise.
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I would second the peephole idea with a small addition, a small tablet size monitor on the inside of the door so you can see who is on the other side in addition to being able to vie it on the app.
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