Thanks for the details. The reason I ask is 558 was the last release that I thought Favorites was optimized.
Back in August I observed the differences between grouped and ungrouped cameras.
This is what I observed.
This observation was valid through 558. Subsequent releases changed how the cameras stream. The next release after 558 both grouped and ungrouped were almost unusable. Instead of making ungrouped perform the same as grouped, they made grouped a bit worse and ungrouped a bit better. This was done by adding a 35-40 second delay (camera streaming) when the camera lost screen focus. This delay is valid regardless what you do until you close the app.
Bottom line. In my case, with 10 cameras streaming, this slows down the responses when viewing multiple livestreams.
You may never see this as an issue as you have limited you groups to 3 cameras. Up until the latest beta, b574, I to had good results breaking my 10 cams into 2 groups. With b574 I am seeing acceptable performance with all 10 cameras in a group.
This is getting long winded but…
As all of this was going on I decided to make sure there wasn’t a gremlin with my ISP, router, wifi, environment. I found an old iPhone 6s in the past-used pile. Factory reset, all updates, loaded wyze with my account. The results were an eye opener. The 10 year old iPhone moved seamlessly between my 10 cameras. Either grouped or ungrouped. The iPhone was a bit slow switching menus etc but once on the Favorites page it was seamless.
What observed was the wyze IOS implementation of Favorites was different. Whether grouped or ungrouped the red light only came on when the camera was onscreen focus. When the camera was off focus the red light was out in a second!!!.
So 3 cameras streaming at the same time (iPhone 6s) vs 10 cameras streaming for 35 seconds (Samsung S21 Ultra). A performance hit in my opinion.
p. s. Ever wonder why the Monitor feature only allows 4 cameras.?