Just curious if anyone else feels the UI for the OG cam is annoying and inefficient to use (specifically when surfing through SD card footage)…?
At least compared to the v2 and v3 UI, I can zoom and surf footage for animals or whatever else with relative ease…
I am also curious if there are any features on any of the cameras that allow for 2x or 4x speed on SD card footage and just not the events…
I was scrolling through footage on a v2 pan cam of a bird bath and noticed it was double speed, but i can not figure out how i did it or how to get it to do it again
Since my first Wyze camera was a Cam Pan v3 (and I also have Cam OG and Cam v4, along with Video Doorbell v2), I don’t have experience with the “old” UI, which is what I think—based on what I’ve read in the Forum—Cam v3 and earlier models use, so I’ve gotten used to the “new” UI because it’s what all my Wyze cameras use. I understand from reading here that this is a polarizing topic, though, with some users preferring the older UI with the horizontal timeline scroll.
I’m not aware of any way to increase playback speed using the camera and app, though there’s a Wishlist item requesting that:
Probably the best way to view microSD card recordings at a higher speed is to pull the card from the camera and stick it in a PC—at least with Wyze cameras—but that’s not always practical. I’d really like to have the ability to access the local storage over my LAN and just pull the files directly off the card remotely. A non-Wyze camera that I use allows an in-app playback speed range from 1/16x to 16x.
Your comparison is with the “old UI” and the “new UI”. All the newer cameras since about 3 years ago use the new UI - it’s not unique to the OG cameras.
As Crease pointed out, this has been hotly debated ever since the new UI came out. I’m not sure why you say that the scrolling the µSD card recordings is so much worse with the new UI. The old UI has a horizontal scroll bar and the new UI is a vertical scroll bar, but otherwise they are essentially the same. The new UI does give a couple more steps on pinch-in or pinch-out resolution. Although the widest resolution is smaller than it was on the old UI, you can sling the scroll to move far faster than you could with the old UI.
What you’re suggesting works for Cam Pan v3 and Cam v4: I get a horizontal timeline (I’m using microSD with recording set to Continuous) when I do that for those cameras. I don’t have this experience with Cam OG, though, so that may not be helpful to @tommyhoover64. It’s a cool feature on the cameras that support it, though. I think I’d seen it before and forgotten about it, so thanks for the reminder!
The Cam OG UI has always seemed different to me, though, and it’s one of the places where I’ve said I’d like to see more consistency across camera devices in the app. For instance, Cam Pan v3 and Cam v4 use an on-screen “expand” button (similar to https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/fullscreen_2089670) to enable landscape mode (I don’t have my phone set to auto-rotate), but Cam OG uses a “screen rotate” button (similar to https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/phone_733473), so even though Cam OG certainly doesn’t use the “OG” “old” UI, it’s not quite the same as the “new” UI, either.
Yeah Panv3 uses one UI and OG uses another. When in full screen mode, the OG does not have a timeline, only 30 second forward and back, and the arrows. The arrows seem to skip between events if you have “event only” recording and skip forward and back 1 minute if you have continuous recording. I’m pretty sure up until some point, the arrows went between events even with continuous recording, but I may be remembering wrong.
The Panv3 has the UI with the timeline on the screen when full screen. I believe the regular v3 did too but I only had it for a couple days a year ago so I don’t remember for sure.
It would be nice to have the same UI for both and also have better ability for stuff like 2x/3x/4x but seems they are reserving that feature for subscribers and cloud recordings only.